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E T Consultant – Advisory

Job #: req30790

Organization: IFC

Sector: Investment

Grade: EC2

Term Duration: 1 12 months 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Nairobi,Kenya

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Swahili

Closing Date: 12/20/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the most important world growth establishment centered on the non-public sector in rising markets. We work in additional than 100 international locations, utilizing our capital, experience, and affect to create markets and alternatives. Our mission is to leverage the ability of the non-public sector to finish excessive poverty and increase shared prosperity on a livable planet. For extra data, go to www.ifc.org.

IFC’s Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services (MAS) division covers sectors which cater to fundamental human wants akin to meals, shelter, and jobs. These sectors play a important position in offering client items and providers, creating jobs, contributing to authorities income, and progress via SMEs.

The MAS division additionally provides advisory providers to assist shoppers enhance sustainability and productiveness in agricultural provide chains. The growth of the agriculture sector is important to addressing widespread poverty and advancing dwelling in poverty in creating international locations, agriculture investments are required to enhance on-farm productiveness, submit-harvest practices, and agriculture investments are required to enhance on-farm productiveness, submit-harvest practices, commerce and advertising of agricultural commodities. Productivity on girls’s farms is usually considerably decrease per hectare in comparison with males. Even although girls make up a big share of farmers within the area, for instance, they have an inclination to lack entry to land possession, coaching and training, credit score, expertise and productive farm inputs like fertilizers, pesticides and farming instruments, help from extension providers, and entry to markets and different elements important to their productiveness. IFC works with agribusinesses, SMEs and producers throughout numerous agricultural subsectors. The agribusinesses are enter corporations, off-takers, meals processors and exporters. The SMEs embrace final mile retailers of agri-inputs and different client items, in addition to producer organizations and cooperatives. The producers vary in dimension from smallholders to massive farms.

IFC has been efficiently deploying its Women in Agricultural Value Chains Program globally since 2012, with profitable interventions in espresso, cocoa, sustainable livestock, grains and plenty of others. MAS Gender is responding by exploring, adapting or increasing new instruments akin to Gender Mappings and Solutions for Agribusiness corporations, Rapid Corporate Gender Assessments for Agribusiness shoppers, Gender Equality and Returns (GEAR) for Agribusiness Clients, Gender for Employability, and others. IFC is increasing initiatives to higher tackle the nexus of gender and meals safety, in addition to local weather change. This position will leverage present companion mechanisms akin to FOLUR to enhance thought management and implementation of gender programming in these areas. The crew can be trying to leverage new modern financing options together with Blended Finance (Women’s Entrepreneurship Financing Initiative), Sustainability Linked Loans, and others.

MAS Gender has designed applications to help to shoppers who search gender-good options within the office by offering MAS shoppers with preliminary employment assessments and help to strengthen their gender insurance policies and practices, drawing on the in depth expertise base in IFC and good observe elsewhere. The program supplies additional custom-made advisory and help to acquire inside gender certifications. In doing so, this system will generate extra empirical proof for the enterprise case for girls’s employment which may also be compiled and disseminated as a part of this system’s operations. New gender options for MAS funding shoppers, together with these centered on local weather change, digital entry, financial inclusion and gender-primarily based violence, are precedence for the division going ahead.

MAS is searching for an skilled Extended Term Consultant in Africa to increase and scale its work on gender inclusion and ladies’s financial empowerment in MAS sectors via agricultural worth chains, entrepreneurship, company inclusion advisory and consumer service supply. The scope of the position consists of analysis and thought management; supply of excessive-high quality gender advisory supply to non-public sector agribusiness shoppers; creating modern new consumer options; venture administration; partnerships together with reporting and fundraising; and information administration and communications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Management and Coordination

• Ensure tasks transfer easily via the venture cycle, together with compliance with WBG inside methods, AS venture governance, reporting methods (iPortal, IBIS) and Legal documentation, and compliance with all procurement processes and monetary reporting.
• Conduct Gender Flagging of latest funding and adivosry tasks, and help the IFC venture cycle by reviewing venture documentation akin to Concept Notes, Implementation Plans, opinions and publications and offering enter to Anticipated Impact Measurement and Monitoring (AIMM) and different company paperwork as wanted.
• Provide well timed progress and donor experiences as required by IFC, shoppers, donors, and growth companions, in keeping with IFC requirements and tips
• Support gender implementation and venture administration of agribusiness worth chain tasks, together with help with venture design, implementation, monitoring and analysis, communications and dissemination.
• Contribute to strengthening an inclusive strategy together with specializing in intersectionality.
• Coordinate MAS Gender Advisory for Africa and help coordination of worldwide gender crew on agribusiness.

Client Advisory Delivery:

• Provide high quality girls’s financial empowerment advisory to IFC shoppers for profitable implementation of tasks.
• Build and articulate the enterprise case for gender inclusion in agribusiness for consumer interventions and seize growth impression of gender advisory to particular person shoppers, in partnership with the Results Measurement and venture groups.
• Conduct enterprise growth efforts in partnership with MAS Agribusiness Advisory crew.
• Help revise the IFC gender mapping course of and baseline knowledge assortment, develop and deploy new instruments, mainstream gender throughout MAS Advisory Platforms (Food Safety/Loss, Sustainable Protein, Smallholder Supply Chain, and Sustainable Crop Production).
• Deliver implementation of Creating Inclusive Workplaces Advisory in Africa, as wanted, throughout MAS sectors.
• Support the design and execution of worldwide and regional flagship gender initiatives akin to in agribusiness (She Leads Agribusiness, WeSAP).
• Deliver company gender assessments, coaching and applications for gender in agribusiness, together with GEAR for Agribusiness, and assist develop new initiatives for gender and diet, and gender and local weather change.
• Leverage present financing mechanisms akin to Women’s Entrepreneurship Financing (WE-FI), GROW, FOLUR, GAFSP, Biocarbon, GROW, Food Security Resilience, and others, and help on donor experiences and Concept Note preparation associated to gender initiatives.
• Examine entry to and design of agricultural applied sciences – as an enabler or restrict to gender equality (for instance cell phones, drip irrigation, different).

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• Assist within the design and supply of gender coaching and capability constructing for venture companions and stakeholders.
• Provide high quality technical help to MAS tasks and IFC shoppers for profitable implementation of tasks within the Africa.
• Recommend interventions that can enhance the livelihoods of ladies-owned or managed farms and SMEs via elevated productiveness, crop high quality and enterprise administration.
• Identify and advocate potential interventions that IFC can develop and implement to empower girls throughout the provide chain of personal sector corporations.
• Facilitate consumer conferences, planning periods, and workshops.

Knowledge and Communications

• Develop information and communications merchandise to showcase the work via blogs, enterprise case research, op-eds, occasions and webinars, social media campaigns, movies, and different codecs.
• Contribute to the maintenance and upkeep of related gender content material on the MAS Gender and IFC web and intranet pages.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s diploma in Agricultural Studies/ Agronomy, Gender, Business Administration, International Development or associated area.
• Minimum 10 years of labor expertise delivering gender-good options and mainstreaming gender in agribusiness worth chains in rising markets is required.
• Minimum 10 years of expertise conducting major knowledge assortment and area work. Experience in livelihood growth and gender inclusion in rural areas could be an asset.
• Demonstrated expertise working with organizations working in gender and capability constructing, particularly with the non-public sector or on agribusiness worth chains.
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities in English required; proficiency in one other language strongly most well-liked.
• Strong venture administration abilities with confirmed skill to help execution of tasks, administration of assets and supply in opposition to timelines.
• Ability to work successfully beneath time strain with excessive capability to provide high quality work.
• Familiarity with WBG and IFC processes, methods, and initiatives is most well-liked.
• Ability to journey and work throughout time zones required.
• Strong interpersonal abilities demonstrated skill to guide, skilled capability to leverage inside and exterior relationships to foster innovation, downside remedy and work successfully throughout boundaries in a quick-paced multicultural and digital setting.
• Excellent strategic imaginative and prescient, skill to suppose long run, and with a deal with enterprise case and developmental impression.

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Note: The chosen candidate can be supplied a one-12 months appointment, renewable on the discretion of the World Bank Group, and topic to a lifetime most ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends earlier than a full 12 months, it’s thought-about as a full 12 months towards the lifetime most. Former and present ET employees who’ve accomplished all or any portion of their third-12 months ET appointment aren’t eligible for future ET appointments.