Gender Advisor, Senegal

Since 1963 and in 146 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit international development organization that delivers technical and management assistance in agribusiness, financial services, enterprise development, community development and food security in order to promote broad-based economic growth and vibrant civil society. ACDI/VOCA currently has approximately 49 projects in 30 countries and total revenues of $151 million.

Gender Advisor, Senegal

Project Background:

USAID Senegal is supporting a five year $40 million USD Feed the Future Senegal Cultivating Nutrition activity to improve diets among the Senegalese population, particularly young children and women of reproductive age, in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI). The project’s purpose is to improve year-round access to diverse, nutritious, and safe foods along with increasing adoption of nutrition and care practices that promote consumption of a healthy diet. Ultimately, improved diets will reduce risks of undernutrition and overnutrition, both of which hamper human health, productivity, and economic growth. To achieve its overall goal, the Senegal Cultivating Nutrition activity will focus on sustainable food systems development and support to satisfy demand, diminish malnutrition, and promote economic development.

This activity is an integral part of USAID/Senegal’s new Economic Growth For All (EG4ALL) Project (2018-2023), which aims to reduce poverty and undernourishment among beneficiaries via increased incomes, consumption of nutritious and safe diets, and environmental capital. For more information please refer to the solicitation: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=293904

Job Summary:

The Gender Advisor will lead gender integration, including planning for how gender issues will be identified, analyzed, addressed, and tracked, across the different technical components throughout the entire award period. The Gender Advisor will be required to work across the targeted value chains and develop approaches that ensure program interventions are gender sensitive.

Responsibilities

• Ensure gender mainstreaming across all project activities and ensure the FTF project upholds ACDI/VOCA's commitment to gender equity and women’s empowerment.
• Oversee/Conduct project gender analysis of gender roles, relations, and/or norms and develop gender-sensitive messaging and training materials.
• Using results of gender analysis, other program assessments and the USAID/Senegal gender strategy, lead the development and integration of a project gender strategy and work plan.
• Oversee and report on the implementation of the gender strategy and work plan and ensure that it is coordinated with the overall project work plan.
• Prepare and lead gender-focused training sessions for staff and partners to ensure gender is appropriately addressed in all project activities.
• Participate in work planning and other strategy sessions to advise project colleagues on gender integration.
• Liaise with the M&E Manager to ensure the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP) employs a gender lens whereby gender differential effects can be captured, analyzed, and used to improve implementation and promote learning.
• Develop strategies, activities, and messages for engaging men
• Assist in the development of training manuals and curricula to ensure gender equity and sensitivity in training content and delivery
• Collaborate with local women’s groups, gender-focused organizations or institutions and other local or international groups implementing similar gender-related activities in the FTF ZOI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, or other related discipline, master's degree preferred.
• Minimum eight years' experience in food security, nutrition or agriculture, including five years concentrating on gender and development issues.
• Demonstrated experience conducting gender analysis and gender integration programming.
• Ability to write coherent and analytical reports is required.
• Clear understanding of gender roles, relations, and norms in Senegal is required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, strong negotiation, diplomacy, and team work skills required.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including using qualitative (e.g. conducting focus groups) and quantitative (e.g. designing surveys) research methods is preferred.
• Prior experience with USAID projects, procedures, policies, reporting requirements is preferred.
• Willingness to travel required. Applicants may be expected to relocate to regional offices depending on solicitation requirements.
• Fluency in French required; Fluency in English preferred.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please apply online at https://internationaljobs-acdivoca.icims.com/jobs/4990/gender-advisor%2c.... No phone calls please. Only finalists will be contacted. Women, minorities, and Senegalese nationals are encouraged to apply. EOE.

Finance and Administration Director, Senegal

Since 1963 and in 146 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit international development organization that delivers technical and management assistance in agribusiness, financial services, enterprise development, community development and food security in order to promote broad-based economic growth and vibrant civil society. ACDI/VOCA currently has approximately 46 projects in 30 countries and total revenues of $151 million.

Finance and Administration Director, Senegal

Project Background:

USAID Senegal is supporting a five year $40 million USD Feed the Future Senegal Cultivating Nutrition activity to improve diets among the Senegalese population, particularly young children and women of reproductive age, in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI). The project’s purpose is to improve year-round access to diverse, nutritious, and safe foods along with increasing adoption of nutrition and care practices that promote consumption of a healthy diet. Ultimately, improved diets will reduce risks of undernutrition and overnutrition, both of which hamper human health, productivity, and economic growth. To achieve its overall the goal the Senegal Cultivating activity will focus on sustainable food systems development and support it to satisfy demand, diminish malnutrition, and promote economic development.

This activity is an integral part of USAID/Senegal’s new Economic Growth For All (EG4ALL) Project (2018-2023), which aims to reduce poverty and undernourishment among beneficiaries via increased incomes, consumption of nutritious and safe diets, and environmental capital. For more information please refer to the solicitation: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=293904

Job Summary:

The Finance and Administration Director will provide overall financial and administrative management, including ensuring that interventions comply with USAID and Senegalese laws. This position is expected to be located in Dakar.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine financial and operational systems and organize related training and orientation systems for all staff. Conduct periodic reviews of operations processes to identify opportunities for improvements.
• Oversee and support all major financial operations including procurement, grants and financial reporting.
• Supervise the finance, operations, and grants staff. Conduct regular operations team meetings to establish quality working relationships between the operations team members and to refine operations processes
• Maintain communications with the Chief of Party (COP), Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) and regional managers in order to understand project operational needs and status, so as to serve as a point of contact for project operations information.
• Assure that the project is in compliance with the most recent USAID and ACDI/VOCA regulations and procedures.
• Provide direction and guidance to local staff and subcontractor staff on compliance agreement compliance issues, procurement standards/requirements, as well as related ACDI/VOCA policies and USAID regulations.
• Serve as liaison with ACDI/VOCA’s contracts administrators; manage and track the program’s requests to ACDI/VOCA’s Contracts Office to ensure an efficient and productive process.
• Coordinate logistical guidance and provide operational support for both the headquarters in Dakar and field offices to ensure a smooth functioning of program activities including support for field office/program set-up and close-out, ongoing operations, field staff, and staff and consultant travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business required, Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience managing similar projects of similar size and scope is required, of which 5 years was on a USAID funded project.
• Knowledge of budget and accounting software.
• Knowledge of donor rules and regulations, and current standards and guidelines.
• Demonstrated management, administrative, reporting, and representation skills.
• Willingness to travel required.
• Fluency in written and spoken French and English is required.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please apply online at https://internationaljobs-acdivoca.icims.com/jobs/4989/finance-and-admin.... No phone calls please. Only finalists will be contacted. Women, minorities, and Senegalese nationals are encouraged to apply. EOE.

Public Engagement Manager at Oxfam International

Post Title: Public Engagement Manager

 

Line Manager: Oxfam International Head of Brand and Digital

 

Matrix Manager: Deputy Advocacy & Campaigns Director: Worldwide Campaigns

 

Responsible for: Public Engagement Specialist for Worldwide Displacement and Migration Campaign

 

Location:  Nairobi (preferred) or an Oxfam affiliate HQ office in the global South - Mexico, Delhi, Johannesburg and Sao Paolo (subject to being able to establish a contract of employment and providing the right to work can be obtained for the location of the post).

 

Contract: Open ended (subject to being able to establish an open-ended contract)

 

Annual Salary:  KES 6,027,347 gross per annum (negotiable dependent on experience) - Kenya Location only

 

Relocation: Relocation assistance available in line with policy

 

Background:

 

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. Critical to achieving our goal is inspiring, igniting, empowering and engaging people to be part of that. People living in poverty themselves, supporters, active citizens, donors, activists, volunteers and the wider public have a critical role in ending poverty. People engage with us in many and varied ways and we can’t achieve our goals without their generosity and power. Public engagement creates and offers opportunities to be a part of and support the worldwide movement toward a more equal world.

 

Geopolitical and economic powers are shifting. Fast. Poverty is shifting too, and so is our capacity to fight it. Today, most poor people live in middle-income countries. However the gap between the rich at the top and the billion at the bottom is growing. Inequality is about access to political power, jobs, justice, security, food, land and resources, health and education. Aid, too, is no longer about North-to-South giving.

 

At Oxfam we cherish our 70 years of history. We bring a lot of knowledge and experience to the table – and we’ll continue to. However, we are changing. We have decided to concentrate on one over-riding priority: to strengthen our ability to influence the political and corporate dynamics that keep people poor. By influencing the systems of power and decision-making, Oxfam can help more poor people than we could simply by providing them with more services.

 

This realization changes how we organize our organization. We are going to have more Oxfam affiliates in southern countries. We will transform into a genuinely international organization that is accountable to poor communities because we’re closer to them in all our programs, humanitarian work and campaigns. Critical also to achieving our goal is to inspire and empower people to take part; people living in poverty themselves, supporters and the wider public have a critical role in ending poverty. And finally, it also means that Oxfam International itself must be truly global, based in multiple locations, with headquarters in the global South.

 

Purpose of the role:

 

Oxfam has had great successes with campaigns on specific issues including inequality, the broken food system, conflict and humanitarian issues and ending violence against women and girls. These campaigns are a source of significant strength and lie at the heart of the organization. Through our campaigns, Oxfam has the potential to engage millions more supporters to campaign alongside us. This is why we are working to further integrate campaign mobilization, public fundraising and communications strategies, to achieve stronger campaigning and influence, more supporters taking many more actions, more income and a stronger brand.

 

Working in close collaboration with our worldwide campaign teams, the Public Engagement Manager leads the creation and implementation of plans to engage millions of people to campaign alongside us, to deepen supporter engagement and generate income for Oxfam’s vision. She or he provides marketing, fundraising and communications leadership into worldwide, regional and national campaign plans, supported by relevant audience insights. The Public Engagement Manager will achieve this primarily by influencing the design of campaigns and supporting the launch of ambitious mobilization plans by working closely with campaign and mobilization teams at worldwide, regional and national level. 

 

Primary responsibilities:

 

1. Ensure that the role of the public is well understood and articulated, resulting in campaigns that resonate with defined publics (20%)

• Ensure that through our campaigns the public has a proactive role in helping make a positive impact for people living in poverty. This includes ensuring that much larger audience segments understand who we are trying to influence, why and how their contribution helps. It also includes that the campaign fits well with Oxfam’s brand, connects with Oxfam’s programmatic work and encourages the public to act and donate to Oxfam.
• Ensure that public facing campaign activities are based on audience insight. Ensure that relevant audience insight is shared and acted upon across fundraising, communications and the campaign groups.  

2. Co-lead the development and implementation of engagement strategies for worldwide campaigns (30%) 

• Co-lead with worldwide campaign leads the development and implementation of worldwide objectives, plans and creative approaches to engage people to campaign alongside us, to deepen supporter engagement and to generate income for Oxfam’s vision.
• Ensure that fundraising and communications experts and groups get access and visibility to campaign plans, are able to provide timely, useful input and contribute to implementation.
• Ensure that fundraising and communication communities commit resources to develop and implement campaigns globally and in priority affiliates and countries.
• Foster the integration of communications, campaign mobilization and public fundraising /growth objectives into joint engagement goals, at a global and national level.
• Ensure that relevant content and stories are gathered from Oxfam’s programmatic work and that these reflect the ambitions and aspirations of communications and fundraising teams and can be used effectively within compelling supporter communications and campaigns in various market.
• Ensure that public engagement impact is measured and that thorough evaluations are run post campaign spikes to share and learn across the confederation to help prepare for the next spike.  

3. Support the development and implementation of national engagement plans (40%): 

• Support the development of ambitious engagement strategies and targets in priority affiliate and program countries to inspire, enable, connect and expand our supporter engagement.
• Monitor the delivery and progress of these engagement plans against worldwide campaign mobilization plans in order to encourage and share innovative approaches and to overcome challenges to implementation.
• Coordinate capacity support and trouble-shooting through the global Public Engagement Department and the public engagement expert communities to support national engagement teams in overcoming challenges to implementation. 

4. Promote best practice and knowledge management (10%): 

• Ensure that Oxfam teams have access to global best practices and expertise required to deliver their public engagement strategies: i.e. to recruit new financial givers, increase engagement with Oxfam on campaign agendas amongst new and future supporters and increase conversion of people engaged with the campaign into other forms of support for Oxfam’s work. 
• Drive collaboration between fundraising, digital, content gathering and communications teams for campaigns, encouraging cross-fertilization of skills, content, knowledge and materials to execute an effective campaign which recruits and engages new and existing supporters.
• Spot innovation and new engagement approaches, for sharing and implementing across the confederation.
• Identify gaps in knowledge or capacity within priority countries and coordinate specialist support as required. 

Profile:

 

Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge: 

• Significant (7 years +) senior leadership experience in leading engagement programs, of which a minimum of 4 years should be at senior manager or equivalent level.
• A track record of delivering ambitious public / supporter engagement strategies, and a deep understanding of multiple engagement techniques.
• Significant experience with developing successful marketing approaches and supporter journeys that generate more support (actions and donations) for a particular issue but also acquire, maintain and upgrade longer term supporters for the organization.
• Experience with and in depth understanding of audience research and acting on it in diverse markets across the globe.
• Experience in working with multi-cultural senior staff and teams and across borders.
• Experience of budgeting and performance management of public engagement programs.
• Highly developed analytical skills and a strong understanding of organizational development and business planning.
• Innovative and creative, able to work under high pressure to deliver new engagement methods.
• Experience of providing tools and training on public fundraising.
• Exceptional influencing skills – the ability to achieve agreed goals and to drive change without direct authority.
• Demonstrable organizational and project management skills. 

To Apply:

 

To apply for the post, please send a letter of application stating the skills and approach that you would bring to the role along with your CV/resume (no photos) in English in strict confidence BY EMAIL ONLY to Zoe Oldham zoeoldham@darylupsall.com.

 

Ensure that they are sent as Word documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your name CV”.  Please put "Oxfam – Public Engagement Manager” in the email subject line.

 

Deadline for applications:  Sunday June 11th 2017, 18.00 GMT    

Country Programme Manager (Mali and Mauritania) – IFAD

Closing Date: 7 June 2017 (at midnight Central European Time - GMT+2) 

Salary: 

UN P4 salary range: US$ 70,647 – US$ 89,091 net-base salary, plus post-adjustment, not taxable in host country, with standard UN compensation package.  Please see this site for details: https://careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx?viewtype=SAL    

Job Summary: 

The Country Programme Manager (Mali and Mauritania) (CPM) is responsible for management of IFAD’s agricultural development programmes in Mali and Mauritania, the Mali Country Office and related staff. 

The CPM’s duty station is in Rome, Italy. There is also a country office located in Mali. 

Full Job Description: 

The Country Programme Manager is accountable for the IFAD core values of integrity, transparency, and equity in the management of assigned IFAD programmes. 

The CPM’s accountabilities and key results include advocacy for and enhancement of national government programmes that improve the access of poor rural people to natural resources; agricultural technologies; financial services; markets; employment opportunities and enterprise development. 

The CPM additionally promotes capacity building of the rural poor in terms of the skills required for their participation in national and local policy and programming processes.  

The key results expected comprise five broad thematic areas, which are reviewed in more detail in the Appointment Brief, accessible through the links below:  

• Country Programme Strategy
• Country Programme Management
• Partnership Building
• Policy dialogue
• Knowledge management 

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialised United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. 

IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.  These roles will support this activity at country level. 

Closing Date:

Applications are welcome until the deadline of Central European Time (GMT+2) on 7 June 2017. 

Application Instructions: 

Oxford HR has been retained as an executive search consultant to assist IFAD with the search for suitable candidates. 

To apply for this position, please complete the Oxford HR online application using the link below, including: 

• An up-to-date CV (no more than 3-4 sides of A4)
• A detailed statement (no more than 2 sides of A4) explaining why you are interested in this post and how your skills and experience make you suitable.
• The Oxford HR Online Form.
• Oxford HR’s Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (optional).  

Information from this form will not be used as part of the selection process. 

Mali and Mauritania: 

http://oxfordhr.co.uk/job/country-programme-manager-mali-and-mauritania 

Please also go to the following link and submit the IFAD online application form:

https://job.ifad.org/psc/IFHRPRDE/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/s/WEBLIB_IFA_FORM.ISCRIPT1.FieldFormula.IScript_IFADSimulation?route=viewJobPosting&joid=1519 

You should receive an automatic message confirming your application. For any queries about IFAD’s applicant portal, please contact erecruit@ifad.org