Head of Education at BRAC

Job Description We are the world’s largest international development organisation, dedicated to empowering people living in poverty. If you were to describe this world to a child, which one of the following would you pick? It is home to magic, art, beauty, and tens of thousands of years of human talent. Or you would, even though it may be true, that our world is where we live, but it is a place that doesn’t work for everyone? Our world is our playground, a platform for the creativity of all seven billion of us. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that a world that works for all of us can be possible. But the opportunities are all around us. While we all hope for a better future for our world, many of us are building it. If you are a builder, we are betting on you. The changemaker. The activist. The hero. The mentor. 45 years ago, we started building a world we all want to live in. We started in Bangladesh. We listened and learnt, failed and got up again. We never stopped trying. And we never will. We trust in people, and we take on the impossible, every day. Fighting poverty, building platforms for tolerance, equality and inclusion, saying no to violence against women and children. We pilot, perfect and scale. Our DNA is to build. As the sun rose this morning, hundreds of thousands of builders rose with it. Teachers across eight countries opened the colourful doors of the world’s biggest secular private education system. 65, artisans picked up their needles and stated weaving traditional art into beautiful clothing. Credit officers in one of the world’s largest microfinance institutions sat down with women in the remotest corners of seven countries. Whoever you are, whatever you are. Doing good is everyone’s business. We have never faced bigger challenges but we have never been more ready.SummaryThe Head of Education will provide strategic and technical leadership to develop transformative approaches for Education, and Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiatives of BRAC International (BI). This position will report to the Director-Programmes, S/he will work with the team to ensure programme standards and systems are in place and implemented across BI countries. S/he will also ensure linkages to institutional advocacy, partnerships, fundraising, and internal technical and functional teams, and ensures consistency of approaches with other associated members of BRAC International. The Head of Education will establish a strong collaborative relationship with other key teams across BRAC and BRAC International.Key Responsibilities: Lead the Education and ECD team, and oversee the implementation of programme strategy, work plan and initiatives.Develop transformative technical approaches for education and ECD and promote innovation for learning and scale up.Assist country management on developing strategic direction to country education, and ECD programme by ensuring transformation of BRAC values & learning to BRAC International.Provide technical support and guidance to the team to design, implement, monitor and evaluate the programmes through communication and regular field visit to the countries as requested and necessary.Help country management to design new projects/proposals and review and provide technical input on proposals.Fosters donor relations and ensures consistent fundraising for education, and ECD programming for BI countries.Bring innovation in terms of digitally enabled education, and ECD programme to address newness in the system.Review and provide technical input on internal and external impact documents/ reports and other documents as needed.Build relationships with key stakeholders, affiliates and partners.Build capacity of the team and ensure the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned from the programmes. Safeguarding Responsibilities: Establish a safeguarding culture across all level of the programme by implementing the safeguarding policy. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.Responsible to ensure team members are appropriately trained, supported and have access to resources regarding issues that are identified and actioned in accordance with the safeguarding policy and procedure.Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so. RequirementsEducational: Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Education, ECD, International Development or any other related field. Required Competencies: Experience in team managementStrategic PlanningFamiliarity with best practice in thematic areasExcellent communication and presentation skillsAdvanced relationship building skillsExcellent English language skillsDemonstrated experience in project design and proposal development.Demonstrated technical expertise in the subject areaExperience and knowledge of south based development issues Experience Requirements: 12+ years of progressive professional work experience in the development, implementation, management of education and skill development programmes, particularly working with children, and youth, marginalized groups in developing countries.