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.
**About the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative**
BRAC International's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative ("UPGI") was founded 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 'graduates' 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 to reach 21 million more people by 2026.
But BRAC UPGI cannot do it alone. This is beyond the means and capacity of a single organization
- no matter how ambitious or innovative. Sustainability and scale demands change at the systems level with active government engagement. BRAC UPGI is committed to creating effective solutions that leverage the available resources and existing programming to achieve the long-term benefits demonstrated by Graduation. The organization is partnering with governments, as well as multilateral institutions, NGOs, and civil society, in countries where BRAC UPGI thinks it can have maximum impact and drive greater uptake for Graduation.
**About the Position**
The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) seeks to hire a **Finance & Administration Officer - Indonesia, **for a growing team that provides technical assistance around the Graduation approach. This role will support the UPGI Indonesia Country Lead with day-to-day Finance & administrative affairs of the Programme, including but not limited to program-related communication information needs, meeting coordination and documentation, report preparation, official correspondences, travel logistics, procurement, recruitment and staff onboarding. This position will be based in Jakarta with occasional travel outside the Capital and would involve daily contact (in person or virtual) with the Country Lead and other members of the team. It will also require frequent coordination with relevant members of the UPGI global operations team.
**Primary Responsibilities**
**Finance**:
- Liaise with the global BI-UPGI Finance Team regarding any clarifications and
- explanations on financial matters.
- Create and update the monthly forecast for in-country operating costs and expected travel/activity budgets.
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