Team Leader – Financial Sector Development Programme, Bangladesh

Overview

In this role, you lead a UK FCDO-funded initiative to strengthen Bangladesh’s financial sector. You will drive strategic delivery, ensure quality and compliance, and coordinate with regulators, central banks and development partners. You’ll oversee multi-workstream integration, stakeholder dialogues and risk management to achieve transformative outcomes. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape financial inclusion and regulatory reform at scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and quality assurance across the programme
• Coordinate with FCDO, central bank, government counterparts and development partners
• Ensure integration of workstreams (central bank transformation, financial infrastructure, regulatory reform) with programme objectives
• Manage stakeholder relationships and represent the programme at policy dialogues and steering forums
• Oversee deliverables through Technical Leads and short-term experts, ensuring technical soundness and KPI alignment
• Drive adaptive learning and inform programme adjustments
• Oversee capacity-building and sustainability planning for counterparts
• Ensure compliance with FCDO contract management KPIs and value-for-money principles
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and mentor senior staff to strengthen local leadership capacity

Key requirements

• Experience leading large-scale donor-funded programmes
• Proven work with central banks, financial regulators and government institutions in developing countries
• Strong understanding of financial inclusion, digital finance and regulatory tech
• Senior-level experience with central banks and government institutions in developing countries
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Advanced degree in economics, finance, public policy or related field
• Proven track record in institutional transformation of central banks or similar bodies, including governance reforms and capacity-building
• Fluency in English; Bangla knowledge is an asset

• leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• communication
• central bank transformation
• financial regulation reform
• financial infrastructure development

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