Women Empowerment Specialist

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Company: Islamic Development Bank
Location: Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Employment Type: Full-time
Posted: 19 hours ago
Description:
Job Purpose

Key Accountabilities
• *Strategic and Operational Planning and Implementation**:

– Contribute to the overall Bank’s efforts to support the member countries to empower women.
– Contribute as an expert and participate in project appraisal, design as well as processing and approval process as team member along with relevant regional hubs.
– Contribute to provision of input on women empowerment and ensuring that the Bank’s policies, strategies, and interventions are adhering to the women empowerment policy of the Bank.
– Contribute and mainstream Women Empowerment in Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS) formulation, country dialogue and engagements with relevant departments at HQ and regional hub.
– Contribute to the development of strategic policies, plans, guidelines, analytics, and other products related to women empowerment and gender issues within the Women and Youth Empowerment division and with other sectors in the Global Practices and Partnerships Complex.
– Contribute to the the design and development of women empowerment initiatives, programs, and projects of the Bank to support the member countries, in close cooperation with the Senior and Lead Women Empowerment Specialists.
– Implement the frameworks, tools, and operational guidelines of the Bank to guide the Bank’s staff in supporting the member countries to empower women and address the issue of gender gaps.
– Monitor and assess initiatives related to women empowerment programs and projects.
– Contribute to the selection of the Program / Portfolio which maximize the utilization of resources and concentrate on results-based impact on women empowerment in MCs.
– Closely coordinate with the regional hubs and the global practices to identify projects/programs and interventions that can be specifically designed to support the member countries to reduce gender gaps in different sectors and empower women as per the relevant policies and guidelines under this theme.
– Provide the regional hub staff with the necessary technical guidance and expertise in operationalizing the Women Empowerment Policy.
– Closely work with the Senior and Lead Women Empowerment Specialists to design and update policies, strategies and actions aiming at empowering women in the member countries.
– Provide expert advisory on the delivery of selected global engagement products on women empowerment, and when needed, directly lead and participate in country dialogues and deliverables (such as those related to UN Women etc..), in addition to capacity building workshops in Member Countries.
– Contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of Women Empowerment policy of IsDB projects during implementation.
– Identify opportunities to mainstream women empowerment in the Operations Work Program of the Bank and coordinate with the regional hubs and relevant team as well as the Senior and Lead Women Empowerment Specialists within the division to operationalize such opportunities.
– Build and maintain strategic partnerships with other leading works on women empowerment within the IsDB and Academia, MDBs and other key partners, outside IsDB, on relevant research/analysis, events, and outreach.
– Contribute to the development and implementation of IsDB Women Empowerment Policy.
– Lead the organization of knowledge sharing and dissemination events on of gender and women empowerment of the Bank.
• *Capacity Development**:

– Identify, assess, and monitor overall capacity development needs of regional hubs, sector teams and other relevant units on women empowerment within the Bank. Also conduct similar assessments through the MCPS to identify advocacy, training and capacity development opportunities in the MCs. Contribute to the formulation of training and capacity development initiatives to address the identified gaps and promo.
– Develop and administer as needed technical assistance (TA) and women empowerment grants and other training programs for capacity building.
• *Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization**:

– Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts to increase concessional and grant resources for the Bank to strengthen and promote youth development and empowerment. Continuously search for and identify opportunities to create/formulate/participate in mechanisms for co-financing youth empowerment initiatives of the Bank.
– Liaise with the international, regional and national youth development and empowerment institutions in order to promote and increase the visibility of IsDB’s interventions on youth development and empowerment in the member countries.
– Liaise with the international gender finance institutions, such as MDB Working Group on Gender, UN women, We-FI and other specialized agencies in women empowerment and gender for advocacy, promotion, and resource mobilization efforts.
• *Knowledge Sharing & Innovation**:

– Track external issues and processes relevant to the best practices in addressing gender gaps and empowering women. Keep a

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