Scope of work
Under the overall guidance of the GEID Operations
Manager, the Lead GBV Operations will be responsible for GEID operations
related to GBV and child safeguarding. The Lead GBV Operations will be
responsible for the design and implementation of a scale-up of IFC GBV
operations, initially in Africa, to support the private sector in addressing
GBV and child safeguarding, through:
- Consulting with internal and external stakeholders. Internal
stakeholders may include GEID GBV staff and consultants, GEID regional and
thematic leads, the Environmental, Social and Governance team (CEG),
country management units, industry gender specialists, staff and
consultants, and the World Bank. External stakeholders may include IFC
private sector clients, governments, business networks including chambers
of commerce, stock exchanges and professional organizations, UN agencies,
CSOs, trade unions, and other GBV and child safeguarding actors.
- Understanding the GBV and child safeguarding ecosystem at
select country, regional, and global levels as relevant and identifying
strategic opportunities for private sector GBV and child safeguarding
interventions.
- Leveraging IFC investment and exploring capital market
instruments such as thematic bonds, blended finance, and impact investment
as potential sources of funding, expanding support to survivors, and
catalyzing action.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to
design and implement the Africa GBV and child safeguarding scale-up.
- Ensuring effective collaboration with the World Bank and
alignment with the GBV risk-related work led by CEG.
- Monitoring, evaluating, and learning from interventions.
It is envisaged that the scale-up of IFC GBV
Operations will include a strategic focus on enhancing IFC client capacity to
mitigate and respond to GBV, alongside broader market-level work to generate
greater progress towards addressing GBV through the private sector.
Key areas of work are expected to include:
- Internal and external capacity building through cost to
business research, case studies, tools and training.
- Continuing the implementation of IFC’s Respectful Workplaces
Program with IFC clients and non-clients, including expanding to selected
countries across the region and through working strategically with lead
firms to address GBV in their global supply chains.
- Embedding child safeguarding in GEID’s work on childcare.
- Working with financial institutions to detect and address
financial abuse.
- Working with men and boys to address GBV and child
safeguarding.
- Working with start-ups or disruptive technology companies to
innovate new solutions for GBV, including to address online violence.
- Developing standard indicators to capture the outcomes and
impact of GBV and child safeguarding activities.
- Collaborating with the World Bank. This may include:
- Joint programming in select countries.
- Designing sector-specific interventions with public and
private sector actors, for instance in addressing online violence, GBV and
child safeguarding in informal work, or in the transport sector.
- Advocacy and technical assistance for legal reform including
supporting countries to ratify and implement ILO Convention 190 on
Violence and Harassment in the World of Work.
- Building the ecosystem for support of victim-survivors by for
instance, enacting regulatory reforms, allocating adequate budget for
those actors in charge of GBV and child safeguarding response, and
relevant training to engage with the private sector.
- Strategic communication aimed at raising awareness and
changing social norms.
Other duties will include:
- Managing GBV staff, consultants, and contractors.
- Project management activities including developing concept
notes and implementation plans and undertaking regular reporting.
- Liaising with IFC’s Gender Based-Violence Environmental and
Social Governance team to ensure that all GBV operational activities are
aligned with IFCs Sustainability Framework.
- Representing IFC in public speaking engagements to share
experience, lessons learned and to advance the role of the private sector
in addressing GBV.
Selection Criteria
- Masters degree in International Development, Gender Studies,
or a related field;
- Minimum of 10 years experience in leading research and
advisory services to the private sector on GBV/child protection in
emerging markets;
- Strong theoretical base in gender, gender-based violence, and
the private sector and ability to translate theory into practical
applications in context of private sector focused
interventions/operations;
- Good knowledge of global standards and ethical guidelines for
prevention and response to GBV and of key standards and resources on GBV
in in development settings;
- Familiarity with child safeguarding, rights, emerging issues
in diversity and inclusion as well as broader gender issues, including
women’s employment good practice in private sector;
- Work experience in emerging markets, ideally in fragile and
conflict environments;
- Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically,
analyze and synthesize diverse information sources;
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented, problem solver with a high
degree of responsiveness and proactivity, coupled with the ability to
recognize when a solution is not available; and,
Behavioral Competencies
- Excellent interpersonal, listening and communication skills
and demonstrated ability to lead and leverage internal and external
relationships to foster innovation and work effectively across boundaries
in a fast-paced multicultural and virtual environment.
- Positive and collaborative attitude and dedication to
excellence and professionalism; significant attention to detail and
decisive decision-making.
- High personal integrity and emotional intelligence, with
demonstrated ability to handle sensitive matters in a discreet and
respectful manner. Diplomatic approach and calm under pressure;
- Excellent strategic vision and ability to see the “big
picture” of country, regional, and global private sector context and
translate it into the goals and activities.
- Strong focus on proactive, consistent, and timely delivery of
results and solutions for clients, governments, and donors, with minimal
supervision and a strong focus on creating business value and development
impact.
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