Gender Analyst - IPSA 9

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This is a IPSA-9 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-9 contracts.

Background

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 46 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. These models work through two channels: firstly through financial inclusion that expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small businesses to participate in the local economy, providing them with the tools they need to climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; and secondly, by showing how localized investments can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion and sustainable development by strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels.

Policy Accelerator

UNCDF operates the Policy Accelerator (PA), which supports countries to strengthen their regulatory environments around Digital Financial Services. It does this by providing expert-guided policy advice, encouraging data and insights for decision-making, supporting multi-stakeholder dialogue, delivering tailored capacity building, and introducing countries to global policy examples. The PA also partners with governments to ensure policies are intentional about strengthening financial consumer protection and addressing the barriers women face to becoming digitally and financially included.?

Institutional Arrangement

The position will directly report to the Gender Lead of the Policy Accelerator (PA) Programme and will collaborate closely with the Ethiopia Country Coordinator, as well as the Community Organizer.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

UNCDF is looking for a Gender Analyst to support our work on digital financial services (DFS) with a particular focus on Ethiopia and women’s digital and financial inclusion. The Gender Analyst will oversee the effective mainstreaming of gender into country programmes and activities, including providing strategic support to UNCDF’s WDFI (Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion) Advocacy Hub through stakeholder engagement, technical assistance and coordination and knowledge and financial resources.?

Key responsibilities include:

Lead the integration of a gender lens into country policies and projects (30%):

• Provide technical support for gender-related projects in Ethiopia, by working with key partners to design, implement and monitor policy and practice solutions to advance WDFI;
• Support in identifying, building and managing partnerships with external stakeholders across government, private sector, non-profit and academia;
• Provide strategic advice to Ethiopia team to mainstream gender in existing and new programmes, and identify opportunities to promote gender-intentional policies and regulations in the country and the region; and
• Provide feedback and actively participate in regional gender programming and coordination processes, as well as ad-hoc global gender-focused activities.

Coordinate the resource allocation and results monitoring for WDFI Advocacy Hub country projects (50%):

• Oversee the timely distribution and effective implementation of funds for WDFI country projects in collaboration with strategic partners;?
• Support the implementation of Ethiopia gender-focused grants by monitoring achievement of results and reporting progress;?
• Support the team to identify opportunities for scale and expansion of WDFI activities in the region; and
• Represent UNCDF at workshops, conferences and events to build awareness of success from gender-related projects and create space for more collaboration opportunities.?

Support advocacy, capacity building and research activities (20%):

• Support the development of advocacy strategies, in collaboration with the local communications team, that secure support for UNCDF projects
• Develop and coordinate learning and training opportunities for policymakers and other WDFI stakeholders on gender-intentional approaches;?
• Support the delivery of research activities, such as stakeholder interviews, field research, assessment of policies and regulations, as well as the dissemination of findings; and
• Facilitate internal and external knowledge building by sharing lessons learned from WDFI country and regional projects.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Digital & Innovation

Digital inclusion

Knowledge of how digital inclusion works, opportunities and challenges for governments and society

Digital & Innovation

Digital thought leadership

Ongoing research into emerging technologies and digital trends and the applications, risks, and opportunities associated with digital adoption, combined with the ability to communicate this synthesis with a broad audience.

Digital & Innovation

Developmental evaluation

Learning and adaptation focused: ability to promote and facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation; aimed at informing learning and portfolio related decision making. Being comfortable with unknown unknowns, uncertainty and understand the traits and value of working with emergence. Being able to give direction rather than destination: monitor and learn about how we understand the present and our direction towards something better (general intent) –not measuring progress and milestones towards a specific pre-defined goal Being able to carry out evaluation thinking in complex systems and adapting evaluation strategies to changing realities. Being inclusive, collaborative and co-creative: being able to design and implement evaluation frameworks with the variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries involved. Being flexible and able to use of a mix of methods, having a high tolerance for ambiguity and can draw on a variety of qualitative and quantitative evidence, is open to unorthodox types of evidence. Ability to set up the structures, conditions, rituals to create a culture for curiosity, reflection and learning and promote evaluation results and insights from a learning perspective. Understand key principles of systems and complexity theory.

Digital & Innovation

Solutions mapping

Ability to engage and build rapport with vulnerable communities and get consent, facilitate participatory processes and navigate intricate power relations and cultural dynamics. Having the sensitivity and ability to identify grassroots solutions, capacities, assets, coping strategies that impacted communities have developed or used to address (emerging) development challenges. Being able to understand these solutions from a people's perspective and learn about the conditions that enable or prevent communities from developing such grassroots solutions or coping mechanisms. Understand how solutions and needs are paired, and how grassroots solutions can be used as an entry point to identify unaddressed or unmet development challenges and how to use these insights to inform policy design. Ability to reverse engineer solutions, understanding what aspects (artefactual, principles, conditions, configuration) can be scaled and how, being able to assess their potential to be transferred to other domains, regions or contexts and build a case for that. Ability to appreciate and integrate various sources of knowledge (academic, experiential, observational, traditional, indigenous) in problem solving processes. Set up structures and processes to collect ideas, solutions and facilitate matchmaking between supply and demand of solutions.

Partnership management

Relationship management

Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding

Partnership management

Emerging partnerships

Ability to engage with emerging partners, develop and manage a strategy and develop approaches to developing and managing these new strategic partnerships

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Education

• A Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, gender studies, development economics, international development, public policy, finance, or related discipline.

Min. years of relevant Work experience

• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in gender mainstreaming and gender integration with government, private sector or non-profit entities is mandatory;
• Proven experience in financial services industry and/or international development is mandatory.?

Required skills and competencies

• Experience working with policymaking bodies on gender mainstreaming, such as strategy development and organizational change;
• Expertise in advocacy for women’s economic empowerment and digital financial inclusion or related gender-focused development outcomes;
• Project management experience, including multi-tasking to lead and execute multiple time-sensitive projects in parallel;
• Experience engaging diverse set of public and private sector stakeholders, government departments, industry associations;
• Prior experience in Ethiopia is required.

Desired additional skills and competencies

• Strong ability to communicate and function effectively in an international and multicultural environment;
• Ability to translate complex technical ideas to a non-technical audience;
• Familiarity with impact of digital financial service policy and regulations on women's economic and social empowerment;
• Experience managing or conducting research
• Expertise in drafting internal and external knowledge outputs and proposing appropriate dissemination channels;
• Excellent speaking and writing skills in Amharic is an asset.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English is mandatory

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: jobs.undp.org