Brac is hiring Programme Head, Urban Development Programme 2021 in Dhaka

Brac is hiring Programme Head, Urban Development Programme 2021 in Dhaka.

Responsibilities

• Deal the policy actors of different government departments, city corporations, bi-lateral and multi laterals donors, international organisations
• Provide programmatic and technical inputs to develop urban strategies, policies and implementation plan
• Identify new areas for strategic as well as programmatic intervention, develop intervention designs for new initiatives and pilots, and oversee preparation of technical and financial proposals
• Generate grants and resources for Urban Development Programme (UDP) work; from grant writing to donor relationship; managing relationships with donors and potential donors
• Lead high-quality project design with innovative approaches that incorporate project management standards and MEAL methods, appropriate to the scope, context, and technical requirements of large and complex projects and ensure achievement of the organisation’s strategic and programmatic objectives set for UDP
• Ensure timely response to identified call for proposals/ RFPs/ EOIs from different donors and lead the process of development of technical and financial proposals, project concept notes, etc.
• Develop knowledge management system to capture and document lessons learned, good practices and innovations in urban development initiatives by the organisation, and facilitate processes for research and evaluation. Strategic guidance to develop the real time monitoring for programme quality assurance.
• Oversee UDP’s information and communications related activities and ensure timely submission of donor reports, development and production of different information, review national and international best practices, innovations and successful interventions in areas relevant to UDP’s strategic priorities and take initiatives to incorporate these in the designs of existing and new interventions.
• Develop strategic partnership with different government authority, city corporations; UN Organisations, international urban forum; professional organisations like BIP, IAB, MAB etc
• Prepare financial plan and human resource plan for the programme. Oversight of budget and other resources
• Coach and mentor programme staff to improve their programmatic and analytical skills including project planning, management, communication and monitoring
• Provide strategic guidance to the field operations unit on urban planning and governance related issues
• Strategic guidance to National and City level advocacy needs for pro-poor urban development and management with particular focus on implementation of new urban agenda and achieving SDG targets in line with BRAC programmatic priorities
• Strategic support for economic inclusion, legal support and health system strengthening of the RMG workers among selected factories
• Support for ensuring gender mainstreaming processes among the UDP towards achieving BRAC’s gender equality goal; and contribute/ support to capturing BRAC-wide gender equality and knowledge and play an active role to accelerate the gender skills in respective programme

BRAC is an international development organization based in Bangladesh. In order to receive foreign donations, BRAC was subsequently registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh.