Senior Program Associate, Gender, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Program Coordination and Administration

• Assist in design and management of the Alliance’s gender strategy and execute programmatic activities and interventions. Provide technical support for all gender activities, including for relevant grants, contracts, events, research, reports, tools, and budgets. 
• Manage the Women’s Empowerment Fund, including but not limited to negotiation of milestones, ad hoc advisory services to grantees, grant administration, and reporting. Support grantees in troubleshooting challenges and barriers, and provide grantees with connections to relevant Alliance experts and in-country staff. Conduct site visits and provide in-person capacity building support as needed.  
• Manage the Alliance gender program’s grants and contracts by supporting and contributing to the design of terms of reference/scopes of work, negotiating milestones, setting reporting requirements and payment terms, and monitoring deliverables and outcomes. Coordinate closely with other teams to ensure timely execution of agreements, track deliverables and payments, and manage modifications to agreement terms.
• Coordinate and assist in planning and execution of the Alliance’s youth program, which seeks to raise awareness of youth in Alliance focus countries about impacts of traditional cooking practices, in particular providing the opportunity for girls to be part of the change as their own households’ transition to cleaner cooking solutions and to enhance their leadership skills.
• Track and monitor progress of ongoing studies, research, and program-related activities to ensure that the Alliance and its partners are operating with the most accurate and current information.
• Support the writing and development of proposals and grant reports to donors, including identification of new funding opportunities.
• Participate and contribute to UNF’s Girls & Women Interest Group by attending regular meetings and sharing updates on the Alliance’s gender work with the broader UNF community.

Gender Technical Assistance:

• Advise internal and external teams on gender sensitive practices by conducting gender analysis, and ensuring gender integration into health, environment, technology, enterprise development, and investment programs.
• Provide gender expertise and support to the Alliance program in Haiti.
• Support the development of tools and resources for gender analysis to support the Alliance’s partner base, and provide hands-on capacity building support to partners as needed.
• Support Alliance team with technical input on program-related research and programmatic activities, particularly with
• mainstreaming gender throughout all Alliance activities
• Design and write proposals for gender and women’s empowerment programs in collaboration with other technical teams.

Advocacy and Partner Engagement:

• Support the Alliance gender advocacy strategy to mainstream women’s empowerment through clean cooking into global frameworks.
• Support the development of partnerships with Alliance partners who are focused on engaging and empowering women, creating local livelihoods, conducting youth education, and address queries from partners.
• Assist in the coordination of gender-related activities in Alliance focus countries, including project planning, logistics, development of presentations and talking points, and follow up.
• Develop communications materials (factsheets, brochures, powerpoints, talking points, etc.) about the impact of the Alliance’s gender programs.
• Write gender content for reports, blogs, and the website.
• Represent the Alliance during global meetings and conferences through attendance and public speaking opportunities.