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:
∎ 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.
∎ 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
∎ Minimum five years’ work experience in the development sector focuses on public relations, partnership development, and policy reform/advocacy.

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 Apr 2022

Company Information:
∎ 5 Apr 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