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BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a Program Director to spearhead BRAC UPGI’s work in the Philippines. The role will offer strategic leadership to UPGI’s country team in the Philippines in their partnerships with governments and other key partners involved in the design and implementation of government led graduation programme(s). Currently, BRAC UPGI has developed key partnerships with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Department of Management and Budget (DMB) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
We are looking for candidates with substantial knowledge and experience working with governments, who are interested in thinking outside the box, and who are excited to explore how the current model of graduation can be adapted and scaled by the Government of the Philippines.
The graduation approach has been piloted twice in the Philippines (through partnerships between BRAC Philippines, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). These pilots have proven that the graduation approach can help to catalyse transformative change for people living in poverty in the Philippines. However, to date, neither pilots have been taken to scale. It is clear that evidence that the graduation approach works to reduce extreme poverty is necessary, but not sufficient to persuade and enable large scale Government led graduation programmes; that more is needed to understand how this multi-faceted approach can be adapted and implemented at scale, within the Government’s available human and financial resources and still deliver meaningful and lasting impact on the lives of participants.
This position would be a member of UPGI’s Senior Leadership Team, and report to UPGI’s Executive Leadership Team. The Program Director for the Philippines will lead and manage BRAC UPGI’s country strategy – engaging partners, including governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions on issues of extreme poverty; supporting the co-design of high quality government led graduation programmes, and ensuring government partners are able to access and leverage support and technical assistance from BRAC and other civil society organizations and development actors.
This role will have the opportunity to be creative in delivering on this strategy, including but not limited to building new partnerships and strategic scaling opportunities, and will be supported with BRAC UPGI’s global support units (Operations, Policy and Partnerships, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, and Program Design and Impact).
This position will be based in Manila and will work closely with BRAC UPGI team members based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to recruit a Program Coordinator – MEL in India. Reporting directly to BRAC’s India Country Lead, the Program Coordinator – MEL will work as a senior member of BRAC’s India team to inform and help strengthen efforts to support state and national government counterparts to scale Graduation.He/she will do this by providing technical assistance and capacity building support to government counterparts on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) of government led inclusive livelihoods programming, and the Management Information System (MIS) more broadly. They will also help to meet the UPGI country team’s information needs – documenting progress and capturing lessons learned, and supporting strategic learning and continuous improvements – and provide support and oversight on MEL for BRAC’s grantees in India.
This position will be based in Delhi, India, with regular travels across the country including remote areas. Regular office hours in-person is expected.
Deadline to apply is April 25, 2025.
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UPGI has a Managing Director and an Executive Office that serves as the overall steering body for an executive leadership team and the overall UPGI direction. The Managing Director aims to hire an Executive Associate who will support the Managing Director’s Executive Office and the Executive Leadership Team. Working inside the Managing Director’s office, she/he will support administrative and general support functions.
While the position may be based in many possible locations, it would be advantageous if this were near a BRAC International office facility in Nairobi. Irrespective of location, work hours would need to closely align to the 7am – 3pm US East Coast time zone in order to support the MD and the Executive Office.
The deadline to apply is April 25, 2025.
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The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a Chief of Staff to join the Managing Director’s office. This is a pivotal role, that will drive efficiency and smooth strategic decisions by organizing and overseeing program wide planning, strategy, and organizational performance processes across UPGI. The position will be part of a small team in the MD’s office and report to the MD.
The role calls for an exceptional individual who can coordinate and guide senior management through regular analysis and discussions towards well-founded decisions. This role requires strong analytical skills, able to support strategic thinking and problem analysis across diverse contexts (at least 7 countries, along with regional and global work). The successful candidate will work closely in support of the MD, using a mix of emotional intelligence, judgment, discretion, and diplomacy to create a positive and productive organizational culture. Critically, the role calls for an exceptional communicator. Externally, the role will help to distill and describe the complexities of UPGI’s work concisely and consistently for diverse audiences. The person does not need to be an expert in Graduation, livelihoods or social programs but must be ready to analytically understand and describe these well.
The preference is for this role to be based at BRAC’s regional office in Nairobi Kenya but could also be based at one of BRAC International’s offices in: Washington DC, Oxford UK, The Hague, or Dhaka. The role requires weekly work hours to include GMT 10AM-3PM for maximum overlap with country and global teams. Flexibility in working hours will be required to accommodate the global nature of UPGI’s team. The role requires international travel approximately 20% of the time (primarily in Africa & Asia).
The deadline to apply is April 25, 2025.
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The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a Program Operations Officer for a growing team that provides technical assistance around the Graduation approach to various partners, ranging from governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and in-country technical team members. This role supports the Ethiopia Country Lead with building and resourcing BRAC strategy at the country level. He/she is responsible for ensuring that BRAC is delivering high quality programs and providing operational support in managing office resources, office administration, logistics, transparent and compliant procurement, and operational support around administration, logistics, and risk compliance.
The successful candidate will assist the Country Lead to represent the project team to key national, sub-national, and international partners; oversee the project outputs, milestones, implementation, and financial management.
The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a Senior Program Manager for a growing team that provides technical assistance around the Graduation approach to various partners, ranging from governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and in-country technical team members.
This role supports the Ethiopia Country Lead with building and resourcing BRAC strategy at the country level. He/she is responsible for ensuring that BRAC is delivering high quality programs and provide operational support to BRAC – Ethiopia provincial and sub-provincial level staff, provincial and local governments in designing and implementing the programme, planning and conducting the need-based trainings, development of capacity building materials and support the country lead in reviewing the programme progress.
Also, she/he is responsible for developing project design documents, project implementation manuals, annual action plans, preparation of various technical briefs, providing technical support to field level staff etc. In addition to the above, this role is responsible for coordinating with the BRAC – Ethiopia team members positioned in the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Urban and Infrastructure and supporting Country Lead to represent the project team to key national, sub-national, and international partners.
This position will be based in Addis Ababa with frequent travel outside the capital and would involve daily contact (in person or virtual) with the Country Lead and other members of the team. It may also require coordination with relevant members of the UPGI global team members.
The application deadline is May 4, 2025.
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