Program Analyst - Climate & Learning, India

Program Analyst - Climate & Learning, New Delhi, India- Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative

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 programs 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 the 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 program outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since reached more than 6.5 million people in 11 countries in Africa and Asia. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programs that include microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights. BRAC invests in communities’ own human and material resources, catalyzing lasting change and creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives.

Our Core Values:

·            Integrity: We approach our work with honesty and integrity.

·            Innovation: We innovate and iterate to improve our impact.

·            Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.

·            Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty.

 

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 the success of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation program in Bangladesh. BRAC UPGI aims to position the Graduation approach as a key driver to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. It does this by:

●     Advocating for uptake of the Graduation approach by policymakers, national governments, multilateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations; and

●     Effective adaptation and implementation of the Graduation approach in countries around the world, supported through technical assistance and capacity strengthening for external stakeholders.

 

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 helps lift 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 2030.

 

About the Position

The Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative – BRAC seeks to hire a Program Analyst to provide strategic and operational support to India’s climate resilience, learning and resource mobilization work. This position will provide operational and technical support to climate adaptation and resilience work across six states. Additionally, the role will provide technical support to the resource mobilization work in the country. The Program Analyst will closely work with the UPGI team as well as the National Rural Livelihood Mission and several State Rural Livelihood Missions across the country. 

 

This position will be based in New Delhi, India and will report to the India Country Lead and work under the guidance of India’s climate and MEL leads.

 

Climate Adaptation and Resilience (50%)

●        Develop materials to incorporate the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Component into the Inclusive Livelihoods Program

●        Support State Project Management Units in developing and operationalizing their climate approach

●        Support the strategic development of the climate component

●        Organize events, workshops, and field visits on national and state level

●        Support in building and maintaining a climate resilience network

Learning and Resource Mobilization (45%)

●        Support in drafting proposals to potential funders for the India country work

●        Data analyses of Inclusive Livelihoods programs across states

●        Preparing presentations for funders

●        Support with developing communication material

●        Provide regular updates to global UPGI MEL on India

Safeguarding (5%)

●        Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the program’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.

●        At least 3 years’ experience working in programme design and/or resource mobilization

●        Experience working in climate resilience, livelihoods, or social protection

●        Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, Master’s degree preferred in development studies, climate change, public policy, or a relevant field

●        A proactive attitude and “get things done” mentality

●        Experience applying strong interpersonal skills to support teams in a fast-paced, and highly collaborative, and multicultural environment

●        Creative problem-solving ability and adaptability to changing workflow/team needs

●        Excellent written and spoken Hindi and English language and communication skills

●        Commitment to the vision, mission, and values of UPGI and BRAC

●        Ability to make decisions under uncertainty and to assess potential institutional risks

●        Being proactive, assertive and action-oriented; driven to work with limited supervision and handle sensitive information with discretion

●        Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

●        Flexible and willing to perform varying duties depending on the shifting needs of the organization and its staff members

●        Working experience in rapidly growing organizations with an entrepreneurial and audacious spirit will be an added advantage.

●        Strong interpersonal/ communication skills;

●        Effective written and verbal communication skills

●        Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams, demonstrating cultural sensitivity, transparency, and fostering values of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

●        Previous knowledge or strong interest in global development

 

 

This is an outstanding opportunity to support a highly effective, collaborative, and innovative non-profit. BRAC International offers a competitive salary and benefits package.  If you feel you are the right match for the position mentioned above, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Program Analyst - Climate & Learning, New Delhi, India

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.