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About Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) is a pioneer in the global impact investing movement, dedicated to reshaping finance for sustainable development with a focus on gender equality and climate action through capital mobilization and data-based solutions. For over a decade and a half, we've been building the sustainable investing market, from establishing the world's largest crowdfunding platform for impact investing (Impact Partners™), operating award-winning enterprise technical assistance programs, creating innovative financial products such as the Women's Livelihood Bond™ Series, (listed 6 bonds in the public market with zero credit default) and establishing an Impact Institute and Research & Advisory.
While we are very deep with our work in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, our work spans 60 countries globally where we have invested close to $500 million of private-sector capital, positively impacted over 160 million direct and household lives, and avoided over 1.9 million metric tons of carbon and have collected over 90,000+ data points on sustainable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The base of IIX's work is IIX Values™, an impact verification tech solution measuring investments' social and environmental impact to the last mile, amplifying the voices of the underserved.
IIX Intelligence demonstrates with data the importance of MSMEs as a backbone of sustainable development. Numerous accolades, including the Oslo Business for Peace and the UN Global Climate Action Award, have recognized our efforts. Our team’s 'PREM' values—passion, resilience, equity, and mavericks—propel our efforts, bringing meaningful change to Global South communities and the 99%.
Scope of work and position
OVERVIEW
IIX is seeking a Gender Equality (GE) Advisor or a Gender Specialist to work with different IIX program tools to ensure the GE integrations in all the project activities of IIRI in Indonesia. The GE or Gender specialist will communicate frequently with GAC specialist on gender issues related to IIRI project. This is a full-time consulting role where the Gender specialist will work with IIX from the project plan development phase.
SCOPE OF WORK
The Gender specialist will work on a full-time basis with the Project team on project implementation and reporting with regard to the gender component, which will include:
- Provide expert advice on gender-related matters concerning project implementation using relevant analytical frameworks (e.g., GAC’s gender-based analysis (GBA), IIX’s proprietary gender lens investing (GLI) framework, etc.)
- Contribute towards the development of gender-sensitive interventions that enhance gender awareness and sensitivity among social impact businesses (SIBs) and providers of capital in Indonesia
- Support the design and implementation of gender-related trainings and capacity-building activities for different ecosystem players including capital providers, ecosystem enablers and SIBs/sustainable MSMEs
- Add to IIX’s proposal a Gender focus – define and expand on terms such as gender-sensitive, gender-responsive, and gender transformative
- Take the lead role in the selection and assessment of gender impact, and development of measurement tools and guidelines, with integration of IIX Values tools
- Take the lead role in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of all the gender indicators in the Project Performance Framework to ensure all the indicators will be measured at the end of the project.
- Communicate with the GAC team on the gender component and related activities to ensure that the Project’s gender integration is complied with GAC’s policies.
- Attend internal and external meetings with project team and GAC, and concerned project stakeholders to review and assess progress and discuss gender challenges/solutions in the project.
