Women Economic Empowerment/GEDSI Specialist

World Vision International

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GEDSI and WEE Technical Leadership

Provide technical leadership to the Sustainable and Resilient Future Ninewa project on GEDSI/WEE within VCD/MSD (iMSD).

Develop and operationalize the GEDSI & WEE strategy and workplan (twin-track mainstreaming + targeted actions); refine Theory of Change and review M&E plans and indicators (sex- and disability-disaggregated);

Lead the integration of GEDSI and WEE principles across project components, including agriculture, market systems, climate resilience, WASH and livelihoods.

Ensure project strategies align with WVI gender and inclusion standards and ANCP GEDSI requirements.

Provide technical guidance on women s economic empowerment approaches, including access to assets, skills, income, markets, and decision-making.

Design and adapt tools for gender responsive market and GEDSI assessments; support integration with saving groups and access to inclusive finance.

Gender and Social Inclusion Analysis

Lead or support gender, disability, and social inclusion analyses to identify barriers, risks, and opportunities.

Ensure findings inform activity design, targeting, and implementation strategies.

Support conflict- and context-sensitive approaches that address power dynamics at household and community levels.

Program Design and Implementation Support

Support the design of inclusive livelihood and economic activities that are safe and appropriate for women and marginalized groups.

Promote approaches such as household dialogue, men s engagement, and community norm change to support women s economic participation.

Ensure accessibility and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.

Capacity Building and Change Facilitation

Build capacity of project staff, partners, and community actors on GEDSI, safeguarding, and WEE concepts.

Develop and deliver training materials, tools, and guidelines.

Mentor partners to implement GEDSI-responsive and transformative approaches.

Provide training/coaching/mentoring to livelihood staff and field teams on GEDSI/WEE (assessments, approaches, private sector engagement, safeguarding, iMSD).

Assess capacity gaps and recommend external learning; conduct FGDs/responsive fact finding and advise on course corrections

Identify challenges/opportunities and formulate concepts/proposals for donors cantered on GEDSI/WEE

Contribute to proposal development with quality data/evidence

Safeguarding, Protection, and Risk Mitigation

Identify and mitigate risks related to gender-based violence (GBV), exploitation, abuse, and backlash linked to women s economic participation.

Work closely with safeguarding and protection teams to ensure safe programming.

Ensure referral pathways and survivor-centered approaches are in place and functional.

Coordination and Integration

Coordinate closely with Agriculture, Market Systems, Climate Resilience, MEAL, GAM, and Operations teams.

Identify, profile, and build strategic linkages with women led organizations, OPDs, private sector, financial institutions/MFIs, NGOs, and local authorities; map and connect smallholder producers and saving groups to key market players to increase productivity/profitability;

Engage with local women-led organizations, DPOs, community leaders, and relevant authorities.

Support partner selection and assessment from a GEDSI perspective.

Develop/contribute training materials and manuals for inclusive management of agricultural/non agricultural enterprises (including collection centers and value chain improvement);

Increase project visibility; promote cross learning; represent the project in forums/workshops/conferences; lead private sector engagement and advocacy to remove barriers and expand market access for women and PWD.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)

Work with MEAL to monitor GEDSI/WEE outcomes using sex- and disability-disaggregated data;

Develop data collection tools/techniques to monitor interventions, including volume and value of marketed products (collection centers/cooperatives);

Conduct follow up visits to assess progress vs. objectives and provide technical support;

Support the Project Manager/MEAL in timely, accurate, high quality donor reports; use innovative approaches to evaluate performance/effectiveness/impact; support baseline and endline studies and targeted research on sustainable livelihoods and economic development; produce case studies demonstrating social transformation and sustainable outcomes.

Contribute to GEDSI and WEE indicators aligned with ANCP and WVI standards.

Support collection and analysis of sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.

Document lessons learned, good practices, and evidence of transformative change.

Reporting and Compliance

Contribute to high-quality donor reports, GEDSI analyses, and learning products.

Ensure compliance with ANCP GEDSI policies, WVI safeguarding standards, and ethical data collection requirements.

Support evaluations, audits, and learning events as required.

* Perform other duties as required