Senior Specialist, Business Development, Integrated Development Programme (IDP)

Job Description

Title: Senior Specialist, Business Development, Integrated Development Programme (IDP)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Bachelor in Environmental Science, Economics, Climate Change, Disaster Management, Natural Resource Management, or other relevant subject from any recognised university/ institution

• At least 3 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Additional Job Requirements

• Strong writing skills for proposals, reports, and learning documents

• Effective communication skills

• Competence in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and digital collaboration tools

• Field research, consultation, and facilitation skills to translate community needs into project solutions

• Strong understanding of development issues in Bangladesh, particularly climate change, livelihoods, and financial inclusion

• Knowledge of global and national climate policies, frameworks, and their implications for Bangladesh

• Awareness of multi-sectoral project design and integrated programme approaches

• Problem-solving mindset with openness to innovation and adaptation

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in the development sector with exposure to multi-sectoral projects, including knowledge of livelihood, financial inclusion, and climate change.

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.

BRAC Integrated Development Programme (IDP) ensures access to services for people living in hard-to-reach regions such as haors (wetlands), chars (riverine islands) and indigenous communities. Interested in life at the last mile in Bangladesh? Join the IDP team to learn about the unique challenges of remote delivery, and be part of a team working to get critical services to the furthest corners of the country. 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

The Senior Specialist, Business Development will manage and drive the design, testing, and operationalisation of innovative and climate-resilient solutions that strengthen IDP’s portfolio. The role ensures that evidence-based, community-driven products, services, and livelihood initiatives are piloted, documented, and adapted for scale-up. By aligning innovations with community needs, donor priorities, and organisational strategies, the position contributes to the growth and sustainability of IDP while providing technical inputs to fundraising and grants management led by the Senior Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the design and piloting of innovative, climate-resilient livelihoods, products (insurance, savings schemes, agricultural and WASH commodities), and digital solutions in IDP areas.

• Ensure technical quality, learning capture, and documentation for future scale-up during the implementation of pilot projects.

• Coordinate with technical focal persons and mainstream programmes to integrate new approaches into programme operations.

• Conduct regular field visits and consultations with communities and stakeholders to identify emerging needs and service gaps.

• Document findings and translate them into evidence-based solutions with a climate and inclusion lens.

• Produce and disseminate field visit reports, lessons learned, and best practices to inform programme design and donor engagement.

• Generate innovative concepts, technical inputs, and solution models that strengthen concept notes and proposals.

• Contribute evidence, learnings, and product designs to ensure fundraising materials are grounded in field realities.

• Support grants management by providing technical inputs on pilot progress, innovations, and community impact.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme`s goals of 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 and encourage others to do so.

Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave, Wellness Centre Facility, Day Care Facility, and others as per policy.