Job Details
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.