Disability-Jobs in Südafrika

Position: National Specialist: Gender Specialist

Background: Winrock International is recruiting a National Specialist: Gender Specialist for an Asian Development Bank (ADB) opportunity in Laos focused on Sustainable Agrifood systems. The project will contribute to food security and nutrition improvement, and agricultural value addition increase in a climate resilient and gender-responsive manner in Lao PDR. This position will be a part‑time consultancy requiring a commitment of 9 person months over a 5‑year period.

Location: Laos

• Support the PMU Gender Specialist to develop gender training packages to train all project focal persons and gender focal persons 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.
• Design 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 coordinate 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.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, economics, development studies, gender studies, or an equivalent field.
• Experience: At least 7 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, will be an advantage.
• Familiar with the requirements of the international development agencies requirements in financial intermediary designed projects.
• Experience working in LAO PDR preferred.
• Experience working with ADB preferred.
• Experience working in ASEAN countries—particularly in Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Cambodia considered an advantage.

Proficiency in using Microsoft Office software, including Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Advanced proficiency in Excel is preferred.

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), Thai or Lao language skills (preferred).

This position may require regional travel.

This position is based on‑going donor funding.

Winrock is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal treatment for all people. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by law.

At Winrock we have a clear mission: Empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity and sustain natural resources through unwavering dedication to accountability, equity, innovation, integrity and transformation.