Program Director- UPGI Program
2025-09-11T09:54:43+00:00
BRAC
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Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
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Tanzania
Banking
Admin & Office
2025-09-25T17:00:00+00:00
Tanzania
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Responsibilities
Management and Leadership
- Growing, building and leading a team of graduation and governance experts in Tanzania
- Meaningful participation as a member of UPGI’s global Senior Leadership Team, and BRAC International’s Leadership Team, including travel to other UPGI or BRAC countries as required
Strategy
- Refine and strengthen BRAC UPGI’s country strategy and work plan in Tanzania, developing new partnerships and expanding current relationships with existing partners.
o Explore new opportunities to engage and influence program development and policy revisions with government counterparts.
o Conduct strategic stakeholder meetings and workshops and share learnings and evidence with partners to drive influence.
o Assess opportunities to work directly with Local Government Units (LGUs) with high levels of extreme poverty and enhance locally led poverty alleviation programs.
- Cultivate and manage partnerships with the government (at multiple levels), multi/bi-laterals, donors, and private sector actors.
- Create stakeholder engagement strategies that drive the overarching country strategy in coordination with UPGI’s technical support units.
Country Engagement
- Actively engage in government consultations and working groups, multi- and bi-lateral working groups, and civil society working groups related to poverty reduction, economic inclusion, and social protection to build partnerships and influence.
- Identify policy asks for governments and develop policy briefs to support national scale-up of Graduation, including where and how the Graduation can be integrated into new or existing government policies/programs.
- Identify, explore, and pursue partnership opportunities and entry points for scaling the Graduation approach within Tanzania more broadly with many potential stakeholders, including government, CSOs, media, peer agencies, think tanks, and other research organizations.
- Support country engagement team members liaising with and advising national and local government and multilateral institution partners such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and various UN agencies on the design, delivery, evaluation, and promotion of impactful Graduation and other economic inclusion approaches integrated into social protection systems nationally.
Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities)
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.
- 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, and encourage others to do so.
Qualifications
- A proven track record in developing strong relationships with partners, governments, civil society actors, multilateral institutions, and/or peer agencies.
- Experience leading strategy development and implementation, particularly efforts to build effective coalitions or networks to influence policy decisions
- Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, or other related fields required.
- 10-15 years of experience in international development, government service, NGOs, or civil society organizations required.
- Sector expertise in livelihoods and economic inclusion, social protection, gender, or financial inclusion; Graduation, cash-plus, or similar experience preferred.
- Proactive leader with the ability to prioritize and effectively manage competing work streams.
- Strong knowledge of Tanzania government systems, previous experience working within government institutions, highly desirable.
- Proven experience developing conducive work environments, environments that encourage and promote debate, inclusiveness and innovative thinking.
- Diplomatic, with strong interpersonal skills and a high degree of political sensitivity.
- Fluency in English and one or more national language required.
- Exceptional communication and representational skills
Management and Leadership Growing, building and leading a team of graduation and governance experts in Tanzania Meaningful participation as a member of UPGI’s global Senior Leadership Team, and BRAC International’s Leadership Team, including travel to other UPGI or BRAC countries as required Strategy Refine and strengthen BRAC UPGI’s country strategy and work plan in Tanzania, developing new partnerships and expanding current relationships with existing partners. o Explore new opportunities to engage and influence program development and policy revisions with government counterparts. o Conduct strategic stakeholder meetings and workshops and share learnings and evidence with partners to drive influence. o Assess opportunities to work directly with Local Government Units (LGUs) with high levels of extreme poverty and enhance locally led poverty alleviation programs. Cultivate and manage partnerships with the government (at multiple levels), multi/bi-laterals, donors, and private sector actors. Create stakeholder engagement strategies that drive the overarching country strategy in coordination with UPGI’s technical support units. Country Engagement Actively engage in government consultations and working groups, multi- and bi-lateral working groups, and civil society working groups related to poverty reduction, economic inclusion, and social protection to build partnerships and influence. Identify policy asks for governments and develop policy briefs to support national scale-up of Graduation, including where and how the Graduation can be integrated into new or existing government policies/programs. Identify, explore, and pursue partnership opportunities and entry points for scaling the Graduation approach within Tanzania more broadly with many potential stakeholders, including government, CSOs, media, peer agencies, think tanks, and other research organizations. Support country engagement team members liaising with and advising national and local government and multilateral institution partners such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and various UN agencies on the design, delivery, evaluation, and promotion of impactful Graduation and other economic inclusion approaches integrated into social protection systems nationally. Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities) Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation. 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, and encourage others to do so.
A proven track record in developing strong relationships with partners, governments, civil society actors, multilateral institutions, and/or peer agencies. Experience leading strategy development and implementation, particularly efforts to build effective coalitions or networks to influence policy decisions Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, or other related fields required. 10-15 years of experience in international development, government service, NGOs, or civil society organizations required. Sector expertise in livelihoods and economic inclusion, social protection, gender, or financial inclusion; Graduation, cash-plus, or similar experience preferred. Proactive leader with the ability to prioritize and effectively manage competing work streams. Strong knowledge of Tanzania government systems, previous experience working within government institutions, highly desirable. Proven experience developing conducive work environments, environments that encourage and promote debate, inclusiveness and innovative thinking. Diplomatic, with strong interpersonal skills and a high degree of political sensitivity. Fluency in English and one or more national language required. Exceptional communication and representational skills
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Vacancy title:
Program Director- UPGI Program
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Banking, Category: Admin & Office]
Jobs at:
BRAC
Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, September 25 2025
Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 11 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities
Management and Leadership
- Growing, building and leading a team of graduation and governance experts in Tanzania
- Meaningful participation as a member of UPGI’s global Senior Leadership Team, and BRAC International’s Leadership Team, including travel to other UPGI or BRAC countries as required
Strategy
- Refine and strengthen BRAC UPGI’s country strategy and work plan in Tanzania, developing new partnerships and expanding current relationships with existing partners.
o Explore new opportunities to engage and influence program development and policy revisions with government counterparts.
o Conduct strategic stakeholder meetings and workshops and share learnings and evidence with partners to drive influence.
o Assess opportunities to work directly with Local Government Units (LGUs) with high levels of extreme poverty and enhance locally led poverty alleviation programs.
- Cultivate and manage partnerships with the government (at multiple levels), multi/bi-laterals, donors, and private sector actors.
- Create stakeholder engagement strategies that drive the overarching country strategy in coordination with UPGI’s technical support units.
Country Engagement
- Actively engage in government consultations and working groups, multi- and bi-lateral working groups, and civil society working groups related to poverty reduction, economic inclusion, and social protection to build partnerships and influence.
- Identify policy asks for governments and develop policy briefs to support national scale-up of Graduation, including where and how the Graduation can be integrated into new or existing government policies/programs.
- Identify, explore, and pursue partnership opportunities and entry points for scaling the Graduation approach within Tanzania more broadly with many potential stakeholders, including government, CSOs, media, peer agencies, think tanks, and other research organizations.
- Support country engagement team members liaising with and advising national and local government and multilateral institution partners such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and various UN agencies on the design, delivery, evaluation, and promotion of impactful Graduation and other economic inclusion approaches integrated into social protection systems nationally.
Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities)
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.
- 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, and encourage others to do so.
Qualifications
- A proven track record in developing strong relationships with partners, governments, civil society actors, multilateral institutions, and/or peer agencies.
- Experience leading strategy development and implementation, particularly efforts to build effective coalitions or networks to influence policy decisions
- Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, or other related fields required.
- 10-15 years of experience in international development, government service, NGOs, or civil society organizations required.
- Sector expertise in livelihoods and economic inclusion, social protection, gender, or financial inclusion; Graduation, cash-plus, or similar experience preferred.
- Proactive leader with the ability to prioritize and effectively manage competing work streams.
- Strong knowledge of Tanzania government systems, previous experience working within government institutions, highly desirable.
- Proven experience developing conducive work environments, environments that encourage and promote debate, inclusiveness and innovative thinking.
- Diplomatic, with strong interpersonal skills and a high degree of political sensitivity.
- Fluency in English and one or more national language required.
- Exceptional communication and representational skills
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 120
Level of Education: postgraduate degree
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