Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Based in Hanoi and reporting to the Team Leader of SPRINT, the Component Lead and GEWEE Specialist will support the project’s Team Leader in directly implementing, supervising, and providing technical assistance for activities under Components 1 of the project; while directly leading the activities under Component 2) and coordinating with the project's technical and program staff (MERL Specialist, CE Specialist, Operations Manager, Communication and Learning Officer, and Field Officers, etc.) to ensure effective implementation of project activities from the perspectives of M&E, GESI, and GEWEE.
Planning:
• Coordinate with the project's technical and financial teams in the development of annual plans;
• Directly responsible for designing and leading the implementation of activities for Component 2 of the project;
• Support the integration and ensure the inclusion of GESI and GEWEE elements in the activities for component 1, M&E and communication of the project.
• Participate in and facilitate discussion sessions in planning consultation meetings with project partners and stakeholders.
Coordination and Technical support
• Directly implement, supervise, coordinate the execution, and report on the implementation of Component 1&2 of the project
• Provide technical inputs in the research/survey reports/technical documents, with GESI/GEWEE perspectives
• Participate in the development and implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy (GES), and ensure updates are applied annually.
• Ensure a women’s economic empowerment approach is streamlined and adhered to throughout the design and implementation of the project activities, implementation, planning, and reporting.
• Work closely with the Agri-business and Resilience Lead, Team Leader, and MERL Specialist to ensure appropriate data collection and synthesize lessons learnt for reporting purposes.
• Advise on gender targets and indicators for the project’s monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide inputs into all key project publications and studies to ensure gender is integrated and reflected.
• Co-facilitate training, knowledge sharing, and promotion of Gender Equality (GE) to SPRINT staff, partners, stakeholders etc.
• Acting as the focal person on gender equality and inclusiveness compliance monitoring/auditing for the program, office operations, and gender-proof reading for publications. This includes producing of periodically gender responsiveness reminders, tips, actions etc.
Knowledge Development and Communication Products
• Identify key gender insights based on monitoring visits and project-level surveys and contribute to SPRINT knowledge management and communications products.
• Participate in the Program’s and Partner’s workplan development and provide expert knowledge and guide/facilitate partners ‘discussion on gender and women’s economic empowerment issues.
• Supervise the Knowledge management & Communication officer as Line manager. Providing guidance, and support and together with her/him co-develop and co-implementation communication/dissemination products related to project Outputs on gender, women’s economic empowerment, women leadership, champions etc, and its relations to thematic intervention on climate resilience, clean growth and agribusinesses.
• Document lessons learned and good practices regarding gender mainstreaming for dissemination, including written and other forms of visuals such as infographics, social media updates, and videos.
• Frequent updates of gender equality promotion and interventions by development partners, knowledge publications, trainings, sharing events etc. for joint-learning of the team and partners.
• Leverage (on-the-job) learning on Climate resilience, Agri-businesses, Clean growth, RE/EE to build the best effectiveness of guiding mainstreaming GE/WEE into these themes.
Data Collection, Analysis and Management
• Ensure key progress indicators (qualitative and quantitative) are collected from partners, reviewed, entered into the Project database.
• Discuss with relevant stakeholders and undertake field visits to confirm and triangulate data findings.
• Support in providing training on survey and interviewing best practice (key informant and focus group).
• Ensure tracking of alumni Project beneficiaries (MSMEs, cooperatives, producers, and EMW) to contribute to the measurement of the Project’s long-term impact.
Project Implementation
• Support the delivery of intended outcomes
• Together with the project team leverage understanding and enhance partnership between Cowater/SPRINT with Yen Bai stakeholders.
• Contribute to the project’s regular progress reporting and any other reports as required.
• Provide other support, as required, by the Team Leader.
