Associate Director, Gender and Social Inclusion
Company: Mind Seeker
Location: Washington
Posted on: April 24, 2024
Job Description:
Deadline to Apply: 6 Feburary 2024
Introduction:
Mindseeker is looking for an Associate Director of Gender and
Social Inclusion to join the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
as part of a practice team led by the Senior Director for Gender
and Social Inclusion and with other staff in to strengthen
engagement across sectors in current thinking, approaches,
strategies, tools, and practices related to gender and social
inclusion in large-scale international development programs. The
Associate Director of Gender and Social Inclusion will have
advancement opportunities and may be promoted to Director if tenure
and performance goals are met.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures that MCC's Gender Policy, MCC Inclusion & Gender
Strategy, and related policy and guidance documents are followed
throughout the program development and implementation process.
- Contributes to gender and social integration work as a member
of the multi-disciplinary MCC team or through providing guidance to
other GSI colleagues engaged with country counterparts to ensure
that analyses of social and gender differences and inequalities
inform the development and implementation of programs to be funded
by MCC.
- Assesses opportunities and constraints for different social
groups to participate and benefit from MCC-funded projects.
- Assesses the soundness of a country's proposed programs'
responsiveness to the key issues identified in the social and
gender analyses.
- Ensures that recommendations and entry points of social and
gender assessments are integrated in the design, due diligence, and
final design of development projects across a variety of sectors,
and appropriately monitored throughout implementation.
- Provides technical advice and counsel on social and gender
issues related to policy and political economy analysis,
consultations, program design, project assessments, implementation
plans, monitoring and evaluation of MCC-funded projects and
activities.
- Leads and contributes to development of terms of reference and
evaluates the technical adequacy of project-specific studies and
plans such as gender assessments, gender and social-specific sector
assessments, stakeholder mapping, human trafficking risk management
plans, and social and gender integration plans.
- Supports and provides guidance for the development of the MCA's
Social and Gender Integration Plan (SGIP) and oversees its
implementation.
- Leads trafficking in persons (TIP) risk assessments and if
applicable, oversees development and implementation of the TIP Risk
Management Plans.
- Provides input to develop approaches and terms of reference to
monitor, assess and evaluate social and gender performance,
outcomes and impacts of MCC-funded projects, including feedback
loops that enable learning and adaptation during
implementation.
- Collaborates with economic analysis and monitoring and
evaluation staff to ensure that research design (quantitative and
qualitative), data and collection and analyses incorporate gender
and social inclusion dimensions.
- Provides technical input in developing a training and capacity
building program on gender integration and social inclusion, as
well as other social risk management issues such as human
trafficking and societal cohesion (particularly in vulnerable
states). Participants can be MCC staff and consultants, partner
country staff, consultants and implementers, and training may be
held in MCC partner countries as well as Washington, DC.
- Provides technical contributions to the development and
refinement of guidance documents, operational procedures,
performance standards and other social/gender practice-related
priorities.
- Develops budgets, timelines, and cost estimates, and conducts
evaluations for procurement actions.
- Manages contractors, inter-agency agreements, and other
entities to ensure that deliverables and work products are
acceptable.
- Develops, regularly updates, and assists in implementing the
Gender and Social Inclusion team knowledge sharing and management
plan, including knowledge events on the subject.
- Provides technical input in the assessment, documentation and
presentation of best practices related to gender and social
integration and the management of these dimensions.
- Represents MCC to senior U.S. Government officials,
representatives of foreign governments, and a variety of other
stakeholders, both domestic and international. Strengthens external
partnerships to enhance attention to gender and social dimensions
of development.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced postgraduate degree (Masters or PhD) in social
sciences such as international development, applied economics,
gender or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in applied research, analysis of social
and economic inequalities, including identification of barriers
that prevent or limit the ability of women, poor people, and other
disadvantaged groups to participate in, access and benefit from
economic growth and development.
- 7+ years of experience in designing and implementing projects
to further inclusion and/or gender equality and equity in at least
one of the main sectors in which MCC works, including energy, water
and sanitation services, transport, agriculture and land, and human
capacity development.
- 3+ years of experience undertaking contract planning and
management for gender and social inclusion, including drafting
terms of reference, with costs, deliverables and timetables,
overseeing or managing technical contracts, integrating
social/gender risk management measures into project designs and
procurement and contract documents.
- Experience with training and other capacity-building methods
and tools for increasing the social and gender competency of
development professionals in both the donor and recipient countries
through a range of learning formats and techniques.
- Work experience in the countries/regions in which MCC
works.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with MCC and/or demonstrated understanding
of MCC's policies and approaches to the integration of inclusion
and gender throughout its investments.
- Experience with USG federal contracting processes is a
plus.
Language Skill Requirements:
- At least a "general professional proficiency" in French,
including in oral and written communications.
Work Environment:
- Work is primarily performed in an office setting.
- Frequent foreign travel to developing countries with limited
infrastructure may be required.
Suitability Requirements:
- All MCC employees must be able to pass a thorough background
investigation, including credit check, prior to starting.
EEOC Statement:
Mindseeker provides equal employment opportunities to all
applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination of any type
without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin,
disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other
characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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