Country: Viet Nam
Closing date: 20 Jun 2016
(this position is contingent on award decision from the donors)
Responsibilities:
- Provide direct technical assistance and guidance on women’s economic empowerment to the program and its delivery partners.
- Support the development of tools, systems, processes and approaches that continuously improve technical excellence and impact in the area of transformative approaches to women’s economic empowerment.
- Lead, coordinate, support, and/or conduct gender and power analyses, effectiveness and efficacy studies, appraisal, evaluation and needs assessments as required by the program.
- Assist with quantitative/qualitative assessments in communities and among ethnic minority households to assess effectiveness of interventions and impact.
- Support delivery partners to understand the role of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment for the Program impact groups.
- Ensure gender equality and women’s empowerment criteria are well integrated into market-systems approaches.
- Work closely with other technical specialists to integrate gender across all Program components.
- Facilitate and support a strong learning and knowledge sharing community around gender-transformative practices amongst delivery partners.
- Serve as a key spokesperson in Viet Nam on issues related to ethnic minority women’s economic empowerment.
- Represent work being done in gender-transformation and ethnic minority women’s economic empowerment under the Program in relevant internal and external forums.
General Qualifications
- MSc or Ph.D. in international development; gender studies; agriculture or other relevant fields of study; or equivalent combination of education and related experience;
- At least 7 years of experience working on international development projects in the areas of gender, women’s economic empowerment and private sector development; past experience in Vietnam or Southeast Asia is desirable;
- Demonstrated ability to design and adapt conceptual program approaches that promote gender transformative programming and support women’s empowerment in diverse cultural contexts;
- Experience in conducting gender analysis and developing recommendations on integration of gender into programming;
- Experience in conducting participatory training and capacity building on gender equality and women’s empowerment;
- Experience in ensuring gender transformative approaches are mainstreamed across programs, including training materials, monitoring, operations, policies and procedures;
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse teams and effectively communicate new or sensitive topics;
- Significant experience working on donor-funded programmes; past experience on DFAT-funded projects is strongly desirable;
- Excellent, coordination, networking and partnership building skills;
- Fluency in English and excellent written and oral communications and presentation skills.
Type of Contract: Two year international contract with the possibility of extension.
Desired start date: Start date is estimated for January 2017.
How to apply:
Please send your application letter and CV, together with an indication of your current salary and compensation package to Manoli Strecker, Business Development Manager, at snvvietnamjobs@snvworld.org by 20th June 2016. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed on a first-come first-served basis.