Lead, Product Development Team; Microfinance Programme

Job Description

Title: Lead, Product Development Team; Microfinance Programme

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelors in any discipline from any recognised university/ institution

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ BRAC Microfinance provides people who cannot access traditional financial banking services with access to a suite of financial services, including loans, savings and microinsurance. We provide an alternative to high-interest loans from informal lenders, supporting families to invest in income-generating activities, build assets, and reduce vulnerability to health shocks and natural disasters. Passionate about finance beyond formal banking systems? Join the BRAC Microfinance team to help build a more financially-inclusive society, where everyone can access finance when they need it - safely, responsibly and sustainably. Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
∎ JOB PURPOSE: Lead the Product Development Unit of Microfinance. Assist higher management in developing realistic strategic plan for qualitative growth of the programme by addressing diversified financial needs of the discriminated people living in different tiers of the society through designing and developing new financial products or reengineering the existing one following Human-centered design (HCD) approach. This includes ensuring accessible and affordable financial products and delivery channels for the client that pursuit financial inclusion. It also includes managing the products throughout the product lifecycle and the overall efforts support the organisation`s vision.
∎ SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme`s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Lead, supervise and manage Product Development Unit
∎ Assess, plan, design, organise and execute the new products/projects for Microfinance
∎ Maintain regular contact and liaison with Microfinance operation team and external partner to ensure project coordination and achievement via meetings, field visits etc
∎ Conduct capacity-building sessions (i.e. meetings, presentations, field visits together) with other PDU members on designing new products/programmes, organising field meetings, motivating team, managing the field etc.
∎ Coordinate with head office team and field management to ensure that field staff understand pilot and communicate effectively with clients
∎ Track the business and social performance of each product and evaluating it after a regular interval

Additional Requirements:
∎ Knowledge on Microfinance Operations
∎ Knowldege on Product Development, Product Design and Product Management
∎ Knowledge on Financial Planning and Strategy, Competitive Analysis
∎ Good communications and interpersonal skills
∎ Excellent analytical ability skill
∎ Minimum 7 years of working experience is required

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health and Life Insurance, Performance Bonus and others

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 1 Nov 2022

Company Information:
∎ 24 Oct 2022
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Category: NGO/Development