Economic Empowerment Director at CARE

JOB SUMMARY*:

Economic empowerment and justice are a key part of the CARE International 2030 Program strategy. Within this strategy, there is an ambition to ensure that 50million women have greater access to and control over economic resources.

Guided by 2030 vision, CARE Jordan aims at enhancing empowerment programming for Jordan’s most vulnerable groups; women and youth, with targeted interventions for Jordanian and refugee women and girls, and male and female youth. CARE Jordan works with civil society and governmental representatives to engage women and youth in economic empowerment and justice initiatives, while additionally scaling up programming tackling financial inclusion, gender-based violence, and amplifying women’s voices in decision-making and public spheres.

The Economic Empowerment (EE) Director is key to CARE achieving its long-range objectives to support producers, workers and entrepreneurs, and particularly economically marginalized women, have access and control over economic rights and resources. The EE Director will be responsible for the strategic and technical leadership of all the Economic Empowerment and justice activities. This includes increasing the value and impact of CARE Jordan’s EE program, develop and test theories of change (ToC), and will be the technical lead for new program and proposal development.

Under the leadership of the EE CARE expects to develop and apply sustainable and scalable models on financial inclusion, skills and access to employment, entrepreneurship, social enterprises, food and non-food value chain strengthening, and MSME development and growth.

The EE Director will develop, nurture and oversee partnerships with international and local organizations to ensure CARE’s work is well relevant to the local context, coordinated, inclusive, and provides meaningful impact at scale for communities in need and particularly to women.

The incumbent will report to the Assistant Country Director for Program Operations and will directly lead and supervise senior staff members.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1: Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development

• Hire, supervise, and build the capacity of team members in relevant technical and management competencies.

• Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented periodical performance reviews.

• Provide a measurable development plan including on-the-job learning with the aim of strengthening technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and providing guidance on career paths.

• Adhere to and act in accordance with the CARE HR Policies and Procedures, and communicates through word and example a high standard of compliance with all applicable policies and regulations.

• Promote and monitor staff care and well-being. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs.

• Draft study and assessment reports to ensure program are well-grounded and based on participatory input from field staff, partners, service providers and Program participants.

Job Responsibility #2: Technical Quality, Program Development & Strategy

• Lead Economic Empowerment and Justice programming strategy including annual work plans, partnership strategies, team structure, geographic concentrations, implementation modalities, sector concentrations, and process and quality improvements.

• Lead the design of targeting, beneficiary identification and selection approaches to ensure processes are fair, accountable and transparent for program participants and different stakeholders.

· Ensure that key protection, gender, age and disability principles are mainstreamed into the program design.

• Develop and enhance Economic Empowerment tools (e.g. guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, monitoring formats, assessments) and innovations, based on CARE’s global standards and direction.

• Actively lead in developing and implementing assessments for EE programming to identify opportunities to develop, expand, and improve the programmatic aspects.

• Actively pursue the new business development opportunities on Economic Empowerment and justice locally, regionally and globally.

• Develop and regularly test theories of change and impact statements for CARE’s impact populations.
• Ensure all interventions have adequate performance and impact measurement frameworks and adequate resources are allocated to monitor, evaluate and learn.

Job Responsibility #3: Direct Program Management

• Prepare detailed program activity, procurement and spending plans well in advance of program activities to ensure strong cross-departmental coordination, particularly with Program Support and Program Quality and Impact.

• Prepare donor’s monthly, quarterly and annual reports for the program in coordination with relevant staff and PQ team.

• Provide orientation and trainings to all relevant staff and targeted stakeholders.

• Ensure exchange of knowledge, information, experiences or lessons learned.

• Provides solid technical recommendations on major program directions and on introduction of new initiatives.

• Strengthen partnership with the stakeholders, including women empowerment, private sector and knowledge institutions.

Job Responsibility #4: Representation, Coordination, Partnership and advocacy

· Engage with and represent CARE in the relevant local and regional fora and coordination working groups

· Develop and nurture partnership with all Government Ministries, Departments and offices to ensure CARE works is relevant and contributes to national strategies.

• Disseminate results and learnings from CARE’s EE program amongst donors, Government of Jordan and peer stakeholders.

• Pro-actively, liaise with other agencies to identify needs and gaps in implementation areas and prevent overlap and duplication of services, share learning and challenges, and ensure harmonization on core project details when required.

• Represent EE Program in all donor and field visits in all locations.

· Support CARE in identifying opportunities to work new partners including women-led and women focused civil society organizations.

· Provide technical advice and maintain a strong working relationship with local partners implementing targeted protection programming.

• Support evidence gathering and the development messages for advocacy purposes.

QUALIFICATIONS

A. Education / Training

Required:

· Master’s degree in a relevant field (business, economics, agriculture, social studies, economic development, international development studies or a related discipline)

Desired:

• PhD’s degree in Social Sciences, Development studies or other related fields or combination of relevant education and experience relevant to the job.

B. Experience Required:

· At least 5-7 years of experience in a similar management role in humanitarian aid and/or development context

· Demonstrable experience in programming management and/or designing and implementing Women’s Economic Empowerment programs

· Track record of successfully designing new Women’s Economic Empowerment projects including leading technical design of proposals.

· Understanding of gender concepts and the linkages with EE

· Proven ability to build partnerships with diverse civil society actors especially private sector, women’s organizations, government departments, academic institutions and INGOs to secure commitment around common goals.

· Strong analytical and conceptual skills in humanitarian programming, assessing EE needs, response analysis, and program design.

· Strong ability to work independently, organize work, meet deadlines, prioritize work under pressure, and coordinate multiple tasks.

• A proven record of effective project management, including project planning and managing a budget

*Desired:

• Fluency in Arabic and English

B. Managerial Know How

Involves integrating and harmonizing requirements of diverse functions in operating, support, and administrative situations. It may be exercised through consultation as well as direct action; Management requires a combination of planning, organizing, controlling, and reviewing along with direct and indirect execution. Choose one of the following: Task; Minimal; Related; Diverse; Broad.

This position requires (Diverse) managerial know-how.

C. Skills *Required

• Proficient in reading and speaking English
• Strong facilitation skills with ability to moderate group discussions on sensitive topics
• Excellent representation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Effective in influencing and negotiating
• Familiarity/training in participatory extension approach;
• Conceptual understanding of teamwork, gender equality, participatory approach and sustainable development.
• Computer proficiency
• Project management and reporting skills and experience
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Excellent documentation skills in English language

· Strong team player skills and experienced collaborator

· Proven skills in program planning, development, analysis, assessing and reporting to external grants providers

E. Human relations skills

Consists of active practicing skills in the area of human relationships. In the work context Human Relations Skills include all capabilities that are needed to interact on a direct person-to-person basis, and through varied approaches build understanding of, acceptance of, or commitment to, courses of action that are important for the organization. These skills may be applied in relation to peers, subordinates or peers within the organization, or to people outside the organization. Human relations skills could be Basic, Important (Influencing) or Critical (See Guidelines for definitions).

The Human Relations Skills for this position are designated as Important

COMPETENCIES

CARE Core Competencies:

• Respect – Behaving in a manner that reflects a true belief in and appreciation for the dignity and potential of all human beings. Gaining other people’s confidence and setting an environment of trust and openness.
• Integrity – Maintaining social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles inherent to CARE.
• Commitment to Service – this competency is woven throughout all aspects of the employee’s performance.
• Excellence – Setting high standards of performance for self and/or others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed; ensuring interactions and transactions are ethical and convey integrity.
• Diversity – Promoting, valuing, respecting and fully benefiting from each individual’s unique qualities, background, race, culture, age, gender, disability, values, lifestyle, perspectives or interests; creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes diversity.

Other desired Competencies:

· Building Commitment – Using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.

· Collaboration – Working effectively and cooperatively with others towards shared goals, establishing and maintaining principle centered working relationships.

· Customer Focus – Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relations.

· Building Partnerships – Identifying opportunities and establishing effective strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or external organizations to help achieve CARE’s objectives.

· Information Monitoring – Setting up ongoing procedures to collect and review information needed to manage an organization or ongoing activities within it.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Thinking Environment Generally Defined

Thinking Challenge: Adaptive

ACCOUNTABILITY **

Is the answerability for actions and for their consequences. It is the measured effect of the job or position on end results. It has three dimensions in the following order of importance:** Freedom to Act; Impact on End Results; and Magnitude**.**

A) *Freedom to Act* is the degree to which personal or procedural control and guidance for work (or lack thereof) exists. This is a function of the organizational framework, the personnel and policy direction, and the flows, processes, and systems that are established in the organization. Choose one of the following: Limited; Prescribed; Controlled; Standardized; Regulated; Clearly Directed; Generally Directed; Guided; or Strategically Guided. (See Guidelines for definitions).

• This position would be designated as Guided

B) *Impact on End Results* considers the principal nature of the job’s influence on end results, which ranges from very direct control to very indirect support. Choose the Impact category that reflects the basic purpose of the job most clearly. Ancillary; Contributory; Shared; Primary (See Guidelines for definitions).

• This position would be Shared

C) *Magnitude*: Financial: What parts of CARE’s revenue and/or expenses are impacted by the job’s primary goals? Use current fiscal year amounts. e.g. project budget, fundraising or contract goal, budget managed or monitored, donations processed, purchases made, contracts negotiated/signed, benefits costs.

CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

List the primary external and internal relationships, which the employee is expected to maintain. State the purpose of these interactions.

Position Title

Relationship Purpose

Internal:

ACD-PO

PCE Director

Direct Report

Coordination

External:

Communities & Partners

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Travel: The post holder will be based primarily at the Country Office with frequent visits to partners and CARE centers or areas of work.
• Safety and Security: CARE’s Safety and Security Officer is available for advice and guidance. **