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 in any discipline preferably in Social Science (Development Studies/Public Administration/ Public policy)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ JOB PURPOSE: 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.
∎ 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.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Excellent training, facilitation, and capacity building skills
∎ Proven communication and external representation experience
∎ 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
∎ 5 years' experience in the relevant field is required
Salary: Negotiable
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health and Life Insurance and others.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 11 Jul 2022
Company Information:
∎ 29 Jun 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
