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Head of Human Resources, BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (Re-Advertisement)
About the Opportunity
The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a Head of Human Resources for a growing team that provides advisory services and technical assistance around the Graduation approach to various partners, ranging from governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and in-country technical team members.
Reporting to the Director of People and Operations, the Head of Human Resources will lead all aspects of human resource processes to deliver the UPGI scale-up strategy. There is dotted-line reporting to the Chief People and Culture Officer at BRAC International who will provide additional technical oversight and guidance. This position does not have a fixed location, but the role would require close work with staff in Africa and Asia. As a result, there is a preference for the person to be based in one of BRAC International’s hubs in the Netherlands, Kenya, or Bangladesh.
This role will be responsible for recruitment, orientation, training, benefits management, succession planning, compensation, employee recognition, morale, and compliance. This role will also include designing innovative systems and methods toward an inclusive organizational culture with equitable practices across our growing global organization.
Primary Responsibilities
Leading and driving forward the People Strategy, with its three simple objectives:
The areas of responsibility for this role include:
Safeguarding Responsibilities
Qualifications
Person Specification
We are looking for a Head of HR with proven leadership skills, the ability to see the big picture coupled with a hands-on approach to getting things done, and a passion for supporting a global workforce to thrive in challenging environments.
You take pride in the quality of service you provide; you are both strategic and responsive; you are a powerful communicator and manage wide-ranging responsibilities in a fast-moving environment. You are continually evaluating progress and looking to do things more effectively. You are a team player, building relationships at all levels with people from various professional and cultural backgrounds. You demonstrate sound judgment, integrity, and sensitivity.
Our ideal candidate would have experience in a leadership role in a global professional services firm or International NGO and strong HR experience.
Required Skills and Abilities
About the Organization
About BRAC
BRAC is one of the world’s largest development organizations, dedicated to empowering people living in poverty. Working across 12 countries in South Asia and Africa, BRAC touches the lives of more than 120 million people worldwide. BRAC takes a holistic approach to alleviating poverty with programs that include microfinance, education, healthcare, food security programs, and more.
About the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative
The Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (“UPGI”) is a global unit of BRAC that was founded in 2016 to build off of the success of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation program in Bangladesh. BRAC UPGI aims to position the Graduation approach as a key driver to eradicating extreme poverty worldwide. It does this by:
In 2002, BRAC pioneered the Ultra-Poor Graduation (“Graduation”) approach in Bangladesh - a holistic intervention to help people lift themselves from extreme poverty - after recognizing that existing poverty alleviation programs were not reaching the poorest people. Through the provision of livelihood assets, cash transfers, and continued mentoring and training, the Graduation approach addresses participants’ multidimensional needs within the local context and ‘graduates’ people from extreme poverty into sustainable livelihoods.
Graduation is an evidence-based, scalable intervention proven to break the poverty trap for the long term. So far, BRAC’s flagship Graduation program has impacted over 2 million Bangladeshi households—totaling over 9 million people. To help eradicate extreme poverty, BRAC UPGI is working to scale globally by integrating Graduation into existing government programs and help 21 million more people lift themselves from extreme poverty by 2026.
But BRAC UPGI cannot do it alone. This is beyond the means and capacity of a single organization- no matter how ambitious or innovative. Sustainability and scale demands change at the systems level with active government engagement. BRAC UPGI is committed to creating effective solutions that leverage the available resources and existing programming to achieve the long-term benefits demonstrated by Graduation. The organization is partnering with governments, as well as multilateral institutions, NGOs, and civil society, in countries where BRAC UPGI thinks it can have maximum impact and drive greater uptake for Graduation.
How to Apply
This is an outstanding opportunity to support a highly effective, collaborative, and innovative non-profit. BRAC International offers a competitive salary and benefits package.
External candidates: Please email your resume, detailed cover letter, and reference contact information to BRAC International.
Internal candidates: Please email your resume, detailed cover letter, and reference contact information with the PIN to internal.bi@brac.net.
Please mention the name of the position and AD # BI 64/22 in the subject bar.
Only complete applications will be accepted, and short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Application deadline: The application deadline is June 10, 2022.
BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.
BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.