host: The Asia Foundation
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The Asia Foundation is seeking a Knowledge Management (KM) and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Lead for its Oporajita initiative in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This strategic role involves providing leadership and technical oversight to a collaborative program that equips women garment workers for a future shaped by automation and digitalization.
The Asia Foundation
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position
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Knowledge Management (KM) and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Lead, Oporajita
Location
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
Reports to
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Program Director
Reportees / Supervision
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N/A
Working days / hours
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37.5 hours per week
About the program: Oporajita- Collective Impact on Future of Work is a collaborative initiative among 15 organizations to equip women garment workers in Bangladesh for a future defined by automation and digitalization. The Asia Foundation is acting as the Backbone Organization (BO) for Oporajita and will be guiding the strategy, vision, and communications for the collective. This initiative follows the Collective Impact Model and aims to holistically address challenges to women’s future employment opportunities and livelihoods – and achieve transformative change for the industry and the people working within. The initiative covers multiple aspects within thematic areas that impact the lives of women garment workers, such as providing future-fit skill training, cultivating an enabling environment that supports their future aspirations, and fostering collaboration in an RMG sector that is inclusive of their choices.
Role Summary The Knowledge Management (KM) and Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI) Lead is responsible for providing strategic leadership and technical oversight for knowledge management, learning, and GESI integration across the Collective Impact (CI) Initiative. Reporting to the Program Director and working closely with the Backbone Organization (BO), implementing partners, and other stakeholders, the position leads the development and implementation of KM systems, knowledge products, learning initiatives, and GESI strategies to strengthen evidence-based programming, policy influence, collaboration, and organizational learning.
The role ensures the effective documentation, synthesis, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge generated through the initiative while promoting a culture of learning and adaptive management. The position also provides technical guidance to mainstream GESI across program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, research, communications, capacity development, and partnership activities, ensuring that the needs and perspectives of women, children, and other marginalized groups are systematically addressed. In addition, the role contributes to proposal development, donor engagement, sectoral analysis, and external representation of the initiative and The Asia Foundation.
I. Main duties and responsibilities
Job summary :
Develop, execute, and manage innovative and cost-effective on-line and off-line KM tools and systems to consolidate, compile and disseminate information and knowledge generated from various interventions under CI initiative as