Economic Security & Opportunity Consultant

EPIP; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Economic Security & Opportunity Consultant to enhance women’s empowerment initiatives. This part-time consultancy will be pivotal in launching a new Learning Lab cohort aimed at improving women's economic security. The consultant will collaborate with partners to develop tailored activities, provide technical support, and share best practices in community-driven approaches. Join a mission-driven organization dedicated to transforming lives through women-led solutions and community engagement. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of women and girls facing urban poverty.

Qualifications

• Experience in community-driven initiatives focused on women's empowerment.
• Strong background in consultancy and resource identification.

Responsibilities

• Tailor activities to the needs of Learning Lab partners.
• Advise on best practices for community-driven approaches.

Skills

Community Engagement

Consultancy

Women’s Empowerment

Resource Identification

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in Social Sciences or related field

Tools

Online Collaboration Tools

Job description

Economic Security & Opportunity Consultant

Posted on March 09, 2022

ABOUT THE POSITION

WomenStrong International is a global community of organizations working with women and girls to end extreme urban poverty. We find, fund, strengthen, and share women-driven solutions that can transform lives. These solutions are developed by our grantee partners – all trusted women-led non-profits, largely in urban settings, whose staff know best how to further girls’ education and empowerment, women’s and girls’ health, and to stop violence against women and girls in their respective communities.

Partners’ solutions are then shared in WomenStrong’s Learning Lab, where they can be tested, sharpened, codified, and disseminated, with input from their fellow partners and by WomenStrong staff. In 2021-2022, WomenStrong’s Learning Lab is striving to deepen the ties among partners to further strengthen our community of knowledge-sharing.

The Learning Lab encourages and cultivates the exchange of ideas through an online portal of tools and resources, web-based group discussions and knowledge-sharing, partner retreats, site visits and bilateral exchanges, the joint development of tools, and other community-building activities. In 2022, WomenStrong plans to launch a new Learning Lab cohort focused on women’s economic security and opportunity; the part-time consultancy for which WomenStrong is hiring will be critical to this effort and to managing this cohort going forward.

WomenStrong is searching for an external consultant for the Learning Lab’s work on women’s economic security and opportunity (ESO). The consultant will work with the partners to tailor activities to the needs of the Learning Lab partners and will help them identify and access relevant resources and technical support as needed.

The consultant will also advise WomenStrong staff regarding best practices in developing community-driven, locally rooted, and culturally responsive approaches that women can use to build collective power capable of transforming communities. The Learning Lab’s work to support women’s economic empowerment is centered around three overlapping areas:

1. Improving strategies for collectivizing and negotiating power in the marketplace and the workplace (e.g., in care work, manufacturing, etc);
2. Promoting and strengthening women’s and girls’ entrepreneurship;
3. Addressing issues regarding unpaid care and accessing adequate social protections.