GESI Manager

GESI Manager

Job Location: Kathmandu

Description

iDE (International Development Enterprises) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending poverty. With over 40 years of experience, iDE is a pioneer in market-based development. Our work within agriculture, sanitation, climate change resilience, and gender equality, stands out because we don’t simply provide handouts. Instead, iDE believes in powering small-scale entrepreneurs and building robust market ecosystems that lay the groundwork for low-income and marginalized people to prosper on their own terms. iDE has almost 1,300 global staff, and offices in 10 countries across Africa, Asia and Central America.

iDE Nepal’s holistic approach to market development is what truly sets us apart. In addition to identifying market opportunities for marginalized populations, we nurture them from seed to fruition. We work hand-in-hand with the private sector, forge partnerships with governments at every administrative level, collaborate with global development partners, and most crucially, have earned the trust and partnership of the rural communities we serve. Our expansive reach, covering all seven provinces, and our continued efforts towards inclusive and resilient market development, stand testament to iDE Nepal’s unwavering commitment to making a difference—one innovation at a time.

Requirements

The Role Overview:

iDE is an international nonprofit dedicated to combating poverty in the developing world not through handouts, but by helping rural households access the tools and knowledge they need to increase their income and improve their health and well-being. IDE’s vision, to catalyze the power of entrepreneurship to allow millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty, is ambitious and bold.

iDE Nepal needs a person who is, first and foremost, passionate about this vision and wants to harness the power of knowledge and teamwork to help iDE achieve it. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI): iDE recognizes that biases and social norms prevent women, men, and socially excluded groups from exercising free choice and from taking full and equal advantage of opportunities for individual development, contribution, and reward. iDE further recognizes the intersectionality of biases represents a double and triple burden, further limiting individuals from exercising free choice and from taking full and equal advantage of opportunities for individual development, contribution, and reward. These disparities and biases undermine the effectiveness of iDE’s programs – leading to less inclusive markets, businesses that miss critical segments, and unsustainable social and economic outcomes. To uphold our mission of creating income and livelihood opportunities for poor rural households. iDE requires a strong GESI Manager to engage our staff and partners in the advancement of our GESI commitments.

The GESI Manager is responsible for every aspect of program activity in Nepal, including:

GESI Mainstreaming

• Assist in the implementation of iDE’s Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) policy in
  partnership with Sector and Area managers across the country to ensure policy and country
• office strategy commitments are implemented.
• Mainstream GESI across all business units, with staff having a strong understanding of
• iDE’s GESI policy and their role in implementing and contributing to gender-aware
  organizational culture.
• Engage in action items for the rollout of Mainstreaming Commitments in collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with iDE’s global GESI activities aligned with the fulfillment of the GESI Policy.

GESI Integration

• Integrating GESI transformative innovations that consider gender and social inclusion
  norms in program planning, assessment, design, implementation, and evidence and
  analytics.
•  Ensure that GESI assessments assist in GESI transformative improvements and reporting needs for program enhancement and resource mobilization.
• In line with Integration Commitment, engage with women’s networks and relevant community stakeholder groups to incorporate best practices in women’s economic empowerment into our work.
• Project Implementation
• Improve the mainstreaming of gender into project activities and project management tools.
• Provide input in project proposals and planning to ensure GESI transformative approaches are implemented.
• Engage in activities to minimize negative unintended consequences and ensure “do no harm” approaches across project life cycles.
• Contribute on participatory and Area-based project planning, evaluation and project activities and contextualize solutions to project implementation for each province.

Qualifications:

A minimum of a degree in business, gender studies, political science, economics, sociology,
anthropology or related social science/humanities discipline or 5 years of relevant work

experience in place of the bachelor’s degree.

•  At least 3 years of relevant experience in gender equality analysis, planning, and integration activities for international development projects and/or private sector diversity and inclusion initiatives is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of gender equity and social inclusion issues and inclusive, participatory approaches to international development work is required.
• Demonstrated ability to work with organizations to plan for and implement GESI interventions that create behavior change among both women and men.
•  Strong written and oral communications.

Knowledge and Experience:

•  Language/Analytical and Reasoning Skills
•  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
•  Demonstrates empathy, humility, authenticity, and respect in the workplace
•  Willingness to ask questions and seek feedback
• Excellent problem-solving and creative thinking abilities
• Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment and across different provinces of Zambia.
•  Excellent verbal, intercultural and interpersonal communication skills
• Enthusiastic with a sincere interest in the mission of the organization

Benefits

This position is open to Nepalese only. Interested and qualifying applicants can submit their application Letter and CV in English, with both phone and email contact details of at least 3 professional references by December 14, 2023.

As per the iDE norms.

iDE Nepal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Members of Disadvantaged Caste, Ethnic and Religious Groups are Strongly Encouraged to Apply.