Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 28 Apr 2017
Career with BRAC International
With over 100,000 employees reaching an estimated 138 million people, BRAC is the world’s largest non-governmental organisation.
BRAC is a development success story, spreading anti-poverty solutions born in Bangladesh to 10 other developing countries in Asia and Africa, making it a global leader in providing opportunities for the world’s poor.
With a holistic approach that uses a wide array of tools including microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services and more, BRAC invests in communities’ own human and material resources, catalysing lasting change and creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. Of the world’s top development and humanitarian relief organisations, BRAC is one of the few based in the global south. BRAC International is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill up the following position:
Programme Manager-Agriculture
Key Responsibilities:
The purpose of this role is to assist the supervisor and country team of Asia and Africa for designing, planning, implementation, monitoring, training, exchanging agricultural technical knowledge to create a better impact on agriculture sector and helping to prepare the concept note and project proposal for fund raising.
- Fund sourcing and routinely review donor information in the Agriculture sector
- Assist the supervisor and country team in preparing the project proposals and concept notes.
- Support & coordination for implementation of the Agriculture programme in different countries.
- Review and analyse the project documents, preparation of operational guideline.
- Support country team to review training module/manual, help to prepare promotional/communicational material development for the respective project/programme.
- Review and analyse monthly qualitative and quantitative report, quarterly narrative report, donor report, case studies and different learning issues documentation.
- Ensure project/programme quality and progress monitoring.
· Establish appropriate information sharing relationship with other sector’s colleagues in BI.
Person Specifications:
· Adequate knowledge on poultry and livestock rearing and management, Knowledge on MS Word, Excel, Power Point, application of common software, email & Internet.
· All technical support skills related to livelihoods, market development project and Training Needs Assessment (TNA). Facilitate and coordinate different training, prepare training & extension materials (e.g. ToT module for staff development, farmers friendly simple techno-guide, technical booklet, leaflet, contents & layout design of poster)
· Concept note & proposal writing skills**,** monthly/quarterly report (both quantitative and qualitative), financial progress report, variance report, annuls report, donor report, and other project related documents preparation and case studies both in English and Bengali.
· Capable of planning, designing, monitoring and implementing of various Poultry, Livestock, and Livelihoods& Food Security programme.
· Capability of budget preparation and analysis, analysis burned rate,
· Ability to work in group as well as individually and relationship building capability.
· Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making ability.
· Influencing and continual improvement tendency
· Creative and innovative, determinant and sincere to work.
Educational Requirements:
Masters degree with concentration on Agriculture or relevant subject area from any reputed University.
Experience Requirements:
At least 5 to 8 years’ experience in relevant field.
Employment type: Contractual
Salary: Negotiable
Job Location: BRAC International Head Office, Dhaka
How to apply:
If you feel you are the right match for the above mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:
External candidates need to apply online through careers.brac.net or email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net
Internal candidates need to apply with their latest CV including all job assignments in detail with BRAC PIN and email to internal.bi@brac.net
Please mention the name of the position and AD# BI 20/17 in the subject bar.
Only complete applications will be accepted and short listed candidates will be contacted.
Application deadline: April 28, 2017
BRAC is an equal opportunities employer