Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment

15 hours ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Banyan Global Full time

Overview:
Banyan Global is an international development consulting firm with offices based in Washington, DC and abroad. Banyan Global operates seamlessly within six practice areas: finance and investment, gender, enterprise development, youth, health, and evaluation and learning.

Banyan Global is recruiting for a long-term, Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment (GEWEE) expert to be based in South Africa. The GEWEE Expert will provide technical advisory assistance to the USAID-funded Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) program that is designed to bolster the U.S Government’s ability to boost trade and investment to, from, and within the African continent. The continent-wide program is USAID’s flagship effort in support of the Prosper Africa Initiative and will expand and accelerate two-way trade and investment between African nations and the United States. The GEWEE Expert will elevate gender equality into enterprise-driven solutions to increase equitable outcomes supporting women’s full and fairly compensated economic participation and advancement at small-scale and large-scale trade and investment activities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide technical leadership on integrating GEWEE considerations across all ATI project activities.
- Design and implement GEWEE trainings, tools, and programming to support ATI objectives.
- Provide technical assistance across ATI program activities covering trade and investment to increase equitable outcomes of small-scale to large-scale trade and investment in North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Deliver GEWEE advisory support to ATI partners in the design and implementation of ATI-funded programming.
- Deliver GEWEE advisory support to ATI on its scopes of work, monitoring and evaluation plans, and other internal documents to ensure gender and social inclusion is integrated, measured, and assessed.
- Identify and supervise technical experts to undertake research, training, and other technical GEWEE assignments across Africa.
- Ensure quality control and timeliness of all GEWEE deliverables.
- Serve as the principal GEWEE liaison with ATI staff; network with African institutions working on GEWEE issues; and collaborate on learning events and conferences, including presenting on relevant topics and/or ATI GEWEE learning.
- Make verbal or written presentations to a range of audiences, including USAID missions, interagency groups, and development partners on key GEWEE topics.

Qualifications:

- Master’s degree in international development with an emphasis on trade, investment, economic growth, gender and development, or another relevant social sciences field.
- At least 7 years of experience in gender and economic growth in Africa.
- Experience designing and delivering GEWEE training and technical assistance to public and private sector representatives in Africa.
- Extensive experience working across Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Direct experience in designing, managing and implementation cross-cutting programs related to GEWEE.
- Superior speaking and writing skills in English are required.

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