Women for Women International Recruits Associate Director, Economic Empowerment for Europe, the Middle East and Asia

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 In countries affected by conflict and war, Women for Women International supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, she is able to create sustainable change for herself, her family, and community.

 Since 1993, Women for Women International has served more than 407,000 women in 8 conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan.

Purpose

The Associate Director, Economic Empowerment guides implementation of Women for Women International’s economic programs in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Kosovo). This position is heavily focused on program and proposal design.  The Associate Director holds overall responsibility for inspiring innovation, ensuring quality, and encouraging learning on all areas related to economic empowerment including but not limited to: market based approaches, savings and loans, financial inclusion and literacy, vocational training, business and numeracy training, and entrepreneurship. This position will be based in the Europe, Middle East and Asia Regional Office. To be qualified as an applicant a candidate must be able to live/work in a country in this region. The  position requires travel throughout the region, and on occasion, the Associate Director may be requested to take on global tasks or to support proposal or program design in the Africa region.

 

Responsibilities:

Program and Proposal Design (50% of time):

  • Lead program and/or proposal design teams working on economic empowerment initiatives, resulting in high quality proposals, program documents, and accompanying budgets.
  • Work with Country Offices to identify opportunities across various value chains leading to improved efficiency, performance and resilience of women participants.
  • Maintain up to date knowledge of international developments, best practices, and innovations in entrepreneurship, economic skills training, business development, financial inclusion and women’s empowerment.

Grant Management and Program Oversight (30% of time):

  • Help Country Office staff to create implementation work plans for the economic empowerment portions of all grants, including core 12 month training program.
  • Monitor the implementation of grant-funded economic empowerment activities, and help the Country Offices identify solutions to rectify any delays or other challenges in implementing activities funded by grants or unrestricted funds.
  • Ensure that Country Office staff have programmatic guidance and oversight to enable them to complete grant deliverables.
  • Serve as the primary support for technical assistance, and monitoring point of contact for economic empowerment in the Country Offices.
  • Advise Country Offices in the development of annual operational plans.

Quality of Economic Empowerment Program (10% of time):

  • Provide substantive advice to help ensure the quality of economic empowerment programming, including the core 12 month training program, in the Europe, Middle East and Asia Country Offices.
  • Carry out regular monitoring and technical assistance visits to Country Offices to support the effective implementation of their economic development programs, including the core 12 month training program.
  • Review and analyze global and country-specific outcome indicator data, and other evaluation reports related to economic empowerment programs.
  • Provide strategic advice to regional and senior management to guide policy, planning and on-ground program delivery.
  • Monitor adherence to program guidelines.

Capacity Building and Staff Development (5% of time):

  • Provide training to Country Office staff and contracted trainers on training content, delivery and quality as well as on operational tasks.
  • Link each office with local, regional, and international training development resources.

Leadership and partnership (5% of time):

  • Establish and cultivate relationships with economic teams and relevant stakeholders in the region to include other NGOs, donors, regional trade initiatives, private sector, etc.
  • Liaise with donors to cultivate new business opportunities.
  • Coordination with other departments, including Sponsorship, Grant Management and Monitoring and Evaluation as well as the other Regional Offices.
Qualifications:
  • Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant work experience in international development, with emphasis on grassroots development.
  • Bachelor’s degree in international development, economics or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
  • Working experience in Europe, Middle East and/or South Asia preferably at a regional level with oversight to multiple country offices.
  • Proven experience leading development of proposals, project implementation plans and budgets that win funding from USAID, DFID, EU, and other bilateral or multi-lateral donors.
  • Successful at establishing internal and external relationships, building trust, and inspiring;
  • Very strong skills for, and experience with, staff development and capacity building in program design and implementation;
  • Good judgement skills, positive attitude to work, demonstrates initiative and problem solving skills;
  • Commitment  and respect for Women for Women International’s mission and values;
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; knowledge of local languages would be an advantage.
  • Strong computer skills in MS Word, Excel, internet, email applications.
  • Ability and willingness to travel internationally up to 40% as needed.
  • Candidate must be able to live and work in country in the region.

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