Innovation lead based in Bangladesh

at  Quicksand

JOB INFORMATION

Date Opened
10/15/2024
Job Type
Part time
Industry
Consulting
City
Dhaka
State/Province
Dhaka
Country
Bangladesh
Zip/Postal Code
1000

ABOUT US

Quicksand is a design strategy & innovation practice headquartered in India, and working in emerging markets. Our entrepreneurial journey started in 2004 with our New Delhi studio. In 2007, we opened in Bengaluru, and then in Goa in 2017.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of over forty full-time practitioners across strategy, research, design, art and technology. The team represents a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds.
Quicksand works on innovation mandates across a range of sectors - financial inclusion, public health, education, humanitarian aid, water and sanitation, environment, technology, consumer goods, retail, culture, food and beverage amongst others.
We work with global corporations to envisage new business opportunities.
We work with international development partners to drive social impact through innovation.
We explore and incubate new social, business and cultural ventures.
Quicksand has worked in over 30 countries across the globe with several hundred clients. Design is the foundation of our practice, applied across all aspects of our cross-sectoral consulting and independent work. We take pride in the plurality of disciplines, sectors, and approaches that our practice straddles.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an Innovation Lead to spearhead the design, execution, and monitoring of two innovative interventions aimed at improving livelihoods and nutritional outcomes in rural communities in Bangladesh. The successful candidate will lead the launch of two pilot interventions. The Innovation Lead will work closely with cross-functional teams, rural communities, market actors, and local entrepreneurs to ensure the interventions are designed and implemented effectively
Project: Intervention Implementation Strategy - Strengthen SBC Approach for Bangladesh Nutrition Activity
Duration: 5 Months with the possibility of extension.
Time commitment: 100%
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Background:
The Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity aims to improve the nutritional status and health of children under 5 years of age, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescents (10–18 years old) in the Zone of Influence (ZOI) (comprising 21 districts in Barisal, Dhaka, and Khulna divisions in Bangladesh) and in the Resilience Focus Area (RFA) (comprising Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Activity consists of three key components: Result (1) consumption of nutritious, diverse, and safe diets by households; Result (2) social and economic empowerment of women and adolescents; and Result (3) adoption of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors.
The ten-year program (October 2018 to September 2028) applies a combination of market system development and social behavior change (SBC) approaches that empower market and community actors to address underlying causes of malnutrition in Bangladesh and catalyze sustainable change in communities. To support this goal, the activity’s partner Quicksand - a specialised Human Centered Design (HCD) firm from India has developed two intervention opportunities centered around the result area 1 of the Activity (consumption of nutritious, diverse, and safe diets by rural households) that are now proposed to advance to the next phase of small-scale pilot testing.

Please refer the Job description for details