Manager, Strategic Initiatives,

BRAC International is Hiring
Join BRAC International (BI) to create opportunities for people to realise their potential.

Position:
Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Job Location:
Dhaka, Bangladesh

About the Role:

The Manager, Strategic Initiatives supports BRAC International's organisation-wide transformation by managing and coordinating the implementation of agreed strategic initiatives within the Strategic Transformation and Risk (STR) team. The role facilitates the translation of strategic priorities into implementation-ready plans, coordinates cross-functional inputs, and supports change management processes to ensure alignment, adoption, and risk-aware execution across programme verticals, Business Enabling Functions (BEFs), and Country Offices.

The position operates under the guidance of the Senior Manager/Lead, Strategic Initiatives, while managing defined tasks and workstreams within an agreed scope. Success in this role requires strong communication and analytical skills, effective collaboration with multicultural teams, and the ability to work within structured yet evolving and sometimes uncertain organisational contexts.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy Development & Planning

• Manage defined components of BI-wide strategy development and refresh processes, including coordination of inputs, timelines, and documentation.
• Facilitate translation of strategic priorities into implementation-ready plans, frameworks, trackers, and progress summaries.
• Support group-wide Annual Planning and Budgeting processes to ensure alignment with BI strategy and organisational priorities.
• Prepare analytical inputs, synthesis notes, and options summaries to support senior leadership discussions.

Digital Readiness and Transformation

• Manage defined components of ERP readiness activities from a business and organisational perspective, consolidating inputs from programme verticals, BEFs, and Country Offices.
• Coordinate ERP readiness inputs across programme verticals, BEFs, and country offices, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and dependencies.
• Support ERP implementation plan for the BEFs and Country Offices by preparing analysis, comparison materials, and decision-support documentation, in accordance with the BI's growth plan
• Ensure ERP-related decisions are informed by strategic, operational, and organisational considerations, rather than system-led imperatives.

Organisational Change Management

• Support and coordinate change management processes for strategic and digital initiatives, focusing on adoption, communication, and capability-building.
• Prepare and execute stakeholder engagement, communication, and capability-building plans to support large-scale change across BI.
• Identify resistance, capacity constraints, or adoption risks, and recommend mitigation actions within scope.
• Assist in tracking ERP change adoption metrics, contribute to feedback loops, support post-go-live reinforcement activities, and help maintain documentation for lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Support leadership in embedding new ways of working, systems, and processes across diverse organisational contexts.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Coordinate engagement across programme verticals, BEFs, and Country Offices to support delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Support in identifying and implementing ways to enhance cross-vertical collaboration, improving efficiency as well as governance, tracking, and reporting mechanisms through assigned strategic initiatives.
• Support entry into new—or exit from existing—geographies and entities by analysing strategic, delivery, and risk-related issues and recommending actionable solutions.
• Assist in developing 'entry'/ 'exit' paper into new geographies as an off-the-shelf manual/how-to document to guide future expansion and transition from any country.

Team Coordination & Ways of Working

• Support team learning, reflection, and documentation aligned with BRAC's values and organisational DNA.
• Promote disciplined work practices, effective knowledge management, and institutional learning within the Strategic Initiatives team.
• Attend cross-functional meetings and provide executive support to the team and the Director, Strategic Transformation and Risk (STR), along with other tasks as agreed.

Safeguarding, Safety and Security

• Implement programme decisions keeping the safety and dignity of programme participants/clients at the center, mitigate safeguarding risks and contribute to a safe working environment where staff are respected and feel confident to voice concerns without fear of retaliation.
• Receive mandatory training on the safeguarding policies and reporting channels and have access to policies.
• Participate in discussions on the safeguarding agenda in monthly meetings and actively voice concerns without fear.
• Report safeguarding incidents witnessed or experiences to the Safeguarding department. For known cases, maintain neutrality, be sensitive and non-judgemental to victims/survivors, and cooperate with organisational investigations providing accurate information as needed.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters in Development Studies, Public Policy, Business Administration, Management, or any other related fields.

Experience and Knowledge:

• 5–7 years of progressive experience in strategy development, organisational transformation, large-scale programmes/ project management, complex planning and training/ capacity development, operational effectiveness, evaluation, or digital/ERP-related initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading strategy development, system transformation, or change management in complex organisations.
• Experience working in more than one country, particularly with African region, is preferable
• Experience in consulting firms or participation in management/ young professional/ leadership development programs will be considered an advantage, but is not required.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Experience working across functions and geographies in matrixed environments.

Skills and Competencies:

• Adaptive Leadership skills
• Basic finance and budgeting
• Strategy Development and Annual Planning
• Project management
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Participative style, strong influencing skills, ability to manage upwards
• Self-starter, owning portfolios of work, and driving projects to completion to a high standard
• Adept at multitasking, troubleshooting innovatively
• Appreciation of diversity and familiarity with multicultural environment

Employment type: Regular

Salary: Negotiable

About BRAC International:

BRAC International (BI), a leading non-profit organisation, is on a mission to empower people and communities facing poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Our vision is to create a world free from exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. We design proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the support and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the last five decades has grown to become one of the world's largest non-governmental organisations (NGOs), reaching over 100 million people. We started our first international operation by venturing into Afghanistan in 2002, building on lessons from our work in Bangladesh to support a nation devastated by war. Currently operating in 16 countries across Asia and Africa. Born, proven and led in the Global South, BRAC International brings a unique Southern perspective and commitment to continuous learning, providing a depth of insight, experience and evidence to meet the needs of diverse communities with humility and courage across Asia and Africa. To learn more about BRAC International, please visit )

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

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application process to grab your dream opportunity

External candidates
are recommended to follow the direct apply link.

Internal candidates
are recommended to apply with their latest Resume including all job assignments in detail and a cover letter mentioning core competence and career aspiration with BRAC PIN and email to
copying their immediate reporting manager.

Please mention the name of the position and AD# BI 01/26 in the subject bar.

Application deadline: 27 January 2026

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and 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 policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

"BRAC International is an equal opportunities employer"