Manager, ED’s Office

Job Description

Title: Manager, ED’s Office

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from any recognized University

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Support on driving organisation-wide learning processes to continue BRAC’s effort to build and nurture a learning culture within the organisation
∎ Assist on managing the annual goal setting process (AOP), in coordination with different programme and department teams
∎ Guide programmes/departments’ systematic internal learning practices, through annual and mid-year reflection exercises, focused on adjusting and improving their annual operating plans (AOPs)
∎ Convene different working groups, consisting members from different programmes, to work on different learning and reflection exercises, related the organisatonal priorities—Annual Operating Plan (AOP) review, Annual Progress Review (APR) etc.
∎ Coordinate timely preparation of ED’s deliverables for meetings and engagements in liaison with other programmes/departments, including donor/partner meetings, conferences, etc.
∎ Assist in preparing the progress reports and presentations for the ED for the governing body meeting and annual general meeting, in consultation with programmes and departments across BRAC
∎ Communicate possible gaps in the alignment of strategic organizational documents (e.g. logframes, annual operating plans, and donor requirements)
∎ Support on different strategy development initiatives, including country strategy and programmatic strategy
∎ Assist on managing projects that are of organistional importance, and which are led by the ED’s office
∎ Support on managing the implementation BRAC annual operating plan (AOP), keeping track of the progress, and update senior leadership
∎ 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

Additional Requirements:
∎ 3+ years in development or related field; ideally having experience of working on strategic initiatives, including fundraising, strategy development, monitoring and evaluation, etc
∎ Knowledge of BRAC, its history, its programmes and culture
∎ Knowledge of strategy development, log frame and M&E framework development; strong quantitative skills
∎ Relationship management (internal and external)
∎ Strong communications—oral and written, ideally Bengali and English
∎ Problem solving and analytical skills
∎ Critical thinking and strong attention to detail
∎ High competency in self-management, and the ability to break strategic guidance down into action items
∎ Comfortable working across a number of sectors, developing new domain knowledge
∎ Ability to work across cultures, with external stakeholders, international colleagues, etc.
∎ Resourceful in finding opportunities
∎ Ability to learn new technologies easily
∎ Interest in organisational development
∎ Strategic thinking
∎ Curious, constantly learning; adaptive

Salary: Negotiable

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

Application Deadline: July 6, 2019

Company Information:
∎ BRAC

Category: NGO/Development