The Associate Program Officer / Program Officer is a one-year role to help us landscape, research, and execute the foundation’s evolving gender work. This role will appeal to an energetic, responsive team player who is able to dive in to support research, analysis work and communication to support the strategy implementation and execution planning. Given the newness of the Gender strategy, you need to have comfort with ambiguity and working in a start-up mode.
The Associate Program Officer / Program Officer will support the GE team with high quality analysis and decision analytics around key issues. The APO / PO will help with scoping and landscaping work to build out a new portfolio of work on women and girls’ collectives (SHGs), and help identify key stakeholders (donors, grantees, researchers) in country who can inform that portfolio development. The position is also expected to support the existing gender data strategy work. They will ensure follow up and backstopping on grantee queries and interest as the strategy and team is built. They will help manage MLE work on existing grants as the overall GE results framework is developed. The APO / PO will make sure that data on potential and existing partners, grants and projects is captured, analyzed and the results fed back into the strategic decision-making processes and team materials. The APO / PO will also contribute to identifying topics for new primary research and technology innovation with high potential.
- Landscape and build out information to support portfolio development in East Africa (donors, grantees, research, organizations), on Self Help Groups, and on gender data.
- Capture and visualize data coming in from grants, contracts and partners.
- Capture and analyze data and evidence on Self-help groups, collectives, and other platforms that serve women’s economic and other empowerment gains.
- Manage contracts and processes to generate results, findings, and work for the team strategy development and execution
- Analyze data in excel and other programs. Use data to interrogate team hypotheses and support better decision making.
- Draft sections of key documents, reports, and presentations for a variety of purposes and audiences, summarizing developments and recommendations for program areas and external partners.
- Support the shaping of the team measurement, learning and evaluation strategy.
- Help design and operationalize processes and systems which will feed data and analysis from grants and research back into key strategy and portfolio management decisions.
- Interact and communicate clearly and consistently with grantees and partners in the field.
- Contribute to learning meetings with potential grantees, donors, and funders including field visits to support proposal development.
- Creative problem solver with a rigorous approach and an aptitude for research (landscaping), identifying potential innovators / organizations with promise, and comfort with quantitative analysis.
- Demonstrated initiative to solve unstructured problems with little oversight, creativity, high energy, and a positive attitude.
- Clear communicator – able to capture and document communications and thinking in different formats for different audiences.
- Background in data analysis, statistical analysis skills, spatial/GIS analysis skills.
- Highly organized and efficient; able to prioritize work based on minimal direction and multiple competing priorities.
- Strong project management skills – able to manage processes and tasks to successful and timely completion.
The responsibilities of this role require that you should have an unquestioned commitment to gender equality and:
- 3- 5+ years of related work / experience in management consulting, programming, or with a funding agency.
- Ability to multi-task and set priorities in an efficient and self-managed, self-motivated manner.
- Comfort in the use of data, measurement and evaluation including qualitative and quantitative research methods, research and evaluation design.
- Experience in women’s groups, gender data, approaches to women’s economic empowerment are assets.
- Experience in East Africa / India are assets.
- Excellent listening skills
- Excellent written, facilitation and oral communications skills effective with a broad and diverse audience.
- Proven ability to work in a complex and at times uncertain environment to deliver work and execute a work plan