Impact & Social Performance Associate, BRAC International Holdings B.V.

Career with BRAC International

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organization, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organization of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organization committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

BRAC International is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:

About BRAC International Holdings B.V. (BIHBV)

BRAC International Holdings B.V. (BIHBV) is a socially responsible for-profit organization, engaging people in sustainable economic and income-generating activities. The core focus of BIHBV is to provide microfinance services outside Bangladesh to people living in poverty who are unbanked and unserved by mainstream financial institutions. BRAC International Microfinance’s (BI MF) mission is to provide a range of financial services responsibly to people at the bottom of the pyramid, particularly focusing on women living in poverty in rural and hard to reach areas to create self-employment opportunities, build financial resilience, and harness women’s entrepreneurial spirit by empowering them economically.

BRAC International Microfinance is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:

Impact & Social Performance Associate, BRAC International Holdings B.V.

About the Opportunity

The Impact & Social Performance Associate will play a vital role in implementing the BRAC International Holdings BV (BIHBV) mission specifically focusing on social goals aiming to drive social performance management (SPM). The associate will provide technical assistance to all BIHBV microfinance entities in RIF related areas. The key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Financial Literacy Roll out and scale

In 2021, BIMF worked on developing a financial literacy curriculum which aims to promote financial knowledge and behavioral change to how our clients relate with their finances. In the first two years, the candidate will particularly spend the majority of their time supporting the BIMF entities implementing the financial literacy project. This will involve developing the project logical framework.

• Responsible for spearheading curriculum customization, collaborating with and reviewing third party services such as designers, collaborating with other BRAC relevant programmes including but not limited to Ultra-Poor Graduation, Youth, and Agriculture.
• Collaborate with country teams to plan and implement the project pilot and further scale up in line with the logical framework.
• Help track the client outcome and impact of the financial literacy project.
• Throughout the project, the candidate will ensure timely reporting to the relevant stakeholders on the project.
• Liaise with BIHBV technical leads and country teams to customize, plan, pilot, and scale up financial literacy curriculum.

Social Performance Management and Client Protection

• Work with Social Performance Manger and country leadership to follow up on Social Performance Management (SPM) work plan and schedule for each countries’ implementation of responsible inclusive finance (RIF) practices and ensure plan is fully implemented.
• Work with country teams in ensuring that consideration (backed up by social data) is given to social objectives in all key investment, strategic and other management decisions.
• Work with the BIHBV team and leadership, governing bodies, and country leadership to promote use of social data and implementation of industry best practices across BI’s portfolio of microfinance programs.
• To ensure BIHBV leadership/ boards receives robust responsible inclusive finance updates and data from MF entities on a regular basis (quarterly) through the presentation of SPI4 and Smart tools results as well as other reports and assessments.
• Support BIMF entities execute other surveys such as client dropout as needed.

Safeguarding:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Skills and Competencies Requirements:

• Adaptable and eager to learn with a willingness to self-teach
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong research (qual and quant) and data analysis skills
• Fluency in English required (spoken, reading and written)
• Highly motivated with a strong interest in development and social issues
• Passionate about social outcomes for microfinance clients
• Ability to work with cross boarder team and culture
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a challenging environment

Education and Experience Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in: microfinance, product development, operational management, consultancy, monitoring and evaluation, or project management.
• Experience in Microfinance operations is preferable.
• Experience to train people and applying best practices (in academic research, strategy or practical application)
• Experience implementing qualitative and quantitative research end to end.
• Experience working with a team from diverse cultures is preferred

Employment Type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable

Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya