Extended Term Consultant- Gender Inclusion and Women’s Economic Empowerment at World Bank Group

Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Management and Coordination

• Ensure projects move smoothly through the project cycle, including compliance with WBG internal systems, AS project governance, reporting systems (iPortal, IBIS) and Legal documentation, and compliance with all procurement processes and financial reporting.
• Conduct Gender Flagging of new investment and adivosry projects, and support the IFC project cycle by reviewing project documentation such as Concept Notes, Implementation Plans, reviews and publications and providing input to Anticipated Impact Measurement and Monitoring (AIMM) and other corporate documents as needed.
• Provide timely progress and donor reports as required by IFC, clients, donors, and development partners, according to IFC standards and guidelines
• Support gender implementation and project management of agribusiness value chain projects, including support with project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, communications and dissemination.
• Contribute to strengthening an inclusive approach including focusing on intersectionality. 
• Coordinate MAS Gender Advisory for Africa and support coordination of global gender team on agribusiness.

Client Advisory Delivery:

• Provide quality women’s economic empowerment advisory to IFC clients for successful implementation of projects.
• Build and articulate the business case for gender inclusion in agribusiness for client interventions and capture development impact of gender advisory to individual clients, in partnership with the Results Measurement and project teams.
• Conduct business development efforts in partnership with MAS Agribusiness Advisory team.
• Help revise the IFC gender mapping process and baseline data collection, develop and deploy new tools, mainstream gender across 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 needed, across MAS sectors.
• Support the design and execution of global and regional flagship gender initiatives such as in agribusiness (She Leads Agribusiness, WeSAP).
• Deliver corporate gender assessments, training and programs for gender in agribusiness, including GEAR for Agribusiness, and help develop new initiatives for gender and nutrition, and gender and climate change.
• Leverage existing financing mechanisms such as Women’s Entrepreneurship Financing (WE-FI), GROW, FOLUR, GAFSP, Biocarbon, GROW, Food Security Resilience, and others, and support on donor reports and Concept Note preparation related to gender initiatives.
• Examine access to and design of agricultural technologies - as an enabler or limit to gender equality (for example mobile phones, drip irrigation, other).
• Assist in the design and delivery of gender training and capacity building for project partners and stakeholders.  
• Provide quality technical support to MAS projects and IFC clients for successful implementation of projects in the Africa.
• Recommend interventions that will improve the livelihoods of women-owned or managed farms and SMEs through increased productivity, crop quality and business management.
• Identify and recommend potential interventions that IFC can develop and implement to empower women within the supply chain of private sector companies.
• Facilitate client meetings, planning sessions, and workshops.
• Knowledge and Communications 
• Develop knowledge and communications products to showcase the work through blogs, business case studies, op-eds, events and webinars, social media campaigns, videos, and other formats. 
• Contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of relevant gender content on the MAS Gender and IFC internet and intranet pages.

Selection Criteria

• Master’s degree in Agricultural Studies/ Agronomy, Gender, Business Administration, International Development or related field.
• Minimum 15 years of work experience delivering gender-smart solutions and mainstreaming gender in agribusiness value chains in emerging markets is required. 
• Minimum 15 years of experience conducting primary data collection and field work. Experience in livelihood development and gender inclusion in rural areas would be an asset.
• Demonstrated experience working with organizations working in gender and capacity building, specifically with the private sector or on agribusiness value chains.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English required; proficiency in another language strongly preferred. 
• Strong project management skills with proven ability to support execution of projects, management of resources and delivery against timelines. 
• Ability to work effectively under time pressure with high capacity to produce quality work.
• Familiarity with WBG and IFC processes, systems, and initiatives is preferred.
• Ability to travel and work across time zones required.
• Strong interpersonal skills demonstrated ability to lead, expert capacity to leverage internal and external relationships to foster innovation, problem solve and work effectively across boundaries in a fast-paced multicultural and virtual environment.
• Excellent strategic vision, ability to think long term, and with a focus on business case and developmental impact.