Title: Senior Manager, Digital Cluster; Microfinance Programme
Company Name: BRAC
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters in any discipline from any recognised university/ institution
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 6 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: Assist in transforming the Microfinance programme from analogue to digital systems by innovating and implementing cost-effective digital solutions for staff and clients, creating usable data, putting together agile processes and establishing an effective eco-system that will support microfinance clients to adapt better to the changing digital landscape of the financial sector.
∎ 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 the team to manage and implement projects successfully on time and by using digital solutions effectively and efficiently
∎ Assist in developing a digital working culture by shaping the skills, processes, people and tools we use to deliver the programme objectives
∎ Strong communication and maintain partnership other units, other BRAC programmes, Fintechs and relevant stakeholders to design and implement digital products and services
∎ Conceptualise projects through research to try out new digital interventions within the program that includes project design, budgeting, risk mapping and project evaluation metrics
∎ Manage effectively and mentor the team to drive initiatives, performance, teamwork and map out skills of each team member to prepare their development plan
∎ Ensure regular follow up of the project operations and effective monitoring of the projects to drive execution smoothly
∎ Analyse existing processes and activities to develop and drive alternative digital interventions for smooth and efficient operations
∎ Keep updated on the regular basis about the new digital interventions/technologies happening in local and international markets that can be replicated for BRAC Microfinance to enhance operational efficiency or client service
Additional Requirements:
∎ Excellent computer skills with all Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
∎ Hands on experience on Microfinance operation and industries
∎ Effective communication, proactive, interpersonal skills
∎ Strategic thinking, good leadership, product development and management, problem solving, analsing data, agility
∎ Minimum 6 years of relevant 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: 8 Oct 2022
Company Information:
∎ 27 Sep 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
Source: bdjobs.com