Partnership Specialist, Advocacy for Social Change
Job Description
Title: Partnership Specialist, Advocacy for Social Change
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters preferably in Social Science (Development Studies / Public Administration/ Public policy).
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ 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.
∎ 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.
∎ The Partnership specialist takes the lead in exploring, creating, strengthening, and guiding management of (both internal and external) partnerships/ coalitions/ community of practices to support BRAC`s efforts on doing policy advocacy at national, regional, and global levels. Moreover, the Partnership Manager would guide BRAC`s development programmes and BRAC`s academic institutes on integrating advocacy components at programme design, implementation, and assessment stages.
∎ Location: BRAC Head Office.
∎ 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 critical 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 if any reportable incident occurs and encourage others to do so.
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop and participate in different networks and coalitions to increase BRAC's visibility and profile at national and global levels.
∎ Coordinate efforts within BRAC programmes in prioritising, activating, and leveraging existing platforms with which BRAC's development programmes and BRAC's academic institutes have affiliations.
∎ Monitor and analyse the national policy environment and situation to provide necessary and helpful information to the Programme Head and Team Lead to take the timely initiative to increase activity/ engagement with specific platforms, processes, and people to influence particular policies.
∎ Plan and execute initiatives for systematic engagement with selected critical external stakeholders, including government offices and officials, influencers, academics, and technical experts.
∎ Led the design, roll-out, and BRAC-wide promotion of processes/ techniques/ digital solutions on managing relationships with key external stakeholders.
∎ Mobilise Advocacy Forum as a platform for promoting the importance of and strengthening capacity to do policy advocacy within BRAC.
∎ Support in promoting BRAC's knowledge products geared towards doing policy advocacy, including research and publications, among relevant stakeholders and institutions.
∎ Writing project updates and proposals, preparing narrations, liaising with existing and potential donors, responding to queries from development partners and other stakeholders as per the need of the project/programme.
∎ Perform rigorous monitoring of grants, grant spending, portfolio spending, and perform further analysis to aid in the resolution of issues identified and also Identify questionable costs from a donor compliance perspective.
∎ Prepare annual, quarterly, and monthly (financial and narrative) reports and ensure submission deadlines are met as per donor requirements.
∎ Provide any other support to senior management if needed and other units of ASC.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Excellent training, facilitation, and capacity building skills.
∎ Proven communication and external representation experience.
∎ An outstanding team player with good skills in teamwork and a consultative approach to decision making.
∎ Good skills and experience in all aspects of programme cycle management - design and development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
∎ Experience in organizational capacity development.
∎ Experience of M&E and beneficiary accountability.
∎ Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including a good track record of report writing.
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health and life Insurance and others.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 1 Nov 2022
Company Information:
∎ 25 Oct 2022
∎ BRAC
Category: NGO/Development
