Winrock International · 7 hours ago
Long Term Consultant: International Specialist: Gender Specialist - ADB LAO Sustainable Agrifood Systems Sector Project
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expWinrock International is recruiting an International Specialist: Gender Specialist for an Asian Development Bank (ADB) opportunity in Laos focused on Sustainable Agrifood systems. The role involves developing gender training packages, supporting gender-sensitive monitoring, and enhancing women's economic empowerment in agricultural value chains.
Agriculture
Responsibilities
Support the PMU Gender Specialist to develop gender training packages to train all project focal persons and gender focal person across the EAs, IAs, and provincial coordinating units and assist with the trainings
Develop outreach and incentive mechanisms to extend program benefits to women-owned and women-led enterprises in program clusters
Support Apex credit institutions to develop a gender-sensitive monitoring and reporting system, and ensure timely and effective implementation, monitoring, and reporting of gender equality results attributable to the DMF and GAP targets to reach women borrowers
Support the PMU Gender Specialist to develop capacity of implementing agencies in collecting, monitoring, reporting, and analyzing sex- and age disaggregated data
Identify best practices on gender in financial services and support Apex credit to incorporate learning to improve gender equality outcomes, including developing and presenting business cases on increasing lending to women
Designing training material targeting select MFIs on how to develop gender responsive credit outreach programs and in best practices for designing tailored credit products and services for women borrowers
Design training materials for Embedded Technical Advisors (ETA) on how to integrate gender analysis and gender-responsive solutions into value chain studies, plans and training programs. Identify and share national and international practice examples of gender mainstreaming in value chain development with ETAs, PFIs/MFIs and project stakeholders and advise on gender integration in value chain interventions through site visits, coaching, workshops and events
Support the PMU and national specialist with implementing and monitoring GAP activities including mobilizing women for credit outreach, ensuring women’s participation in value chain activities, and small-scale infrastructure development
Advise on techniques to ensure participation of women and vulnerable groups in all public consultations
Propose examples to follow for the design of awareness campaigns on to promote gender equality mainstreaming in project interventions at province, district and village level and coordination their implementation with appropriate EAs, IAs, PCUs and district Lao PDR Women’s Union
Advise on content and approaches for campaigns on road safety, and on preventing and responding to gender-based violence
Support the identification of best practices from GALS in the nutrition program and propose activities to ensure GALS learning is applied to other project interventions and target areas
Contribute to setting up the Grievance Redress Mechanism and ensure gender integration across the GRM
Assist the Gender Specialist PMU to prepare GAP reports
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in social science, economics, development studies, gender studies, or equivalent
At least 10 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 3 years in gender and women's economic empowerment related to access to credit and/or agricultural value chain development, preferably within international development projects and/or large-scale government programs
Experience in designing and delivering gender equality training and in monitoring and evaluation systems, particularly when working with government counterparts
Familiar with the requirements of the international development agencies requirements in financial intermediary designed projects
Proficiency in using Microsoft Office software, including Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Strong written and verbal communication skills are required, including effective public speaking and the ability to communicate complex issues both verbally and in written form
Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Preferred
Experience working in LAO PDR
Experience working with ADB
Experience working in ASEAN countries – particularly in Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Cambodia considered as an advantage
Advanced proficiency in Excel
Thai or Lao language skills
Company
Winrock International
Winrock International is a development with a focus on social, agricultural and environmental issues.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$47.43MKey Investors
U.S. Department of AgricultureVisa FoundationNational Institute of Food and Agriculture
2022-09-22Grant· $45M
2021-11-11Grant· $0.5M
2021-10-25Grant· $1.25M
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Rodney Ferguson
President and CEO
Mike Myers
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