Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 21, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job summary
The partnership and innovations specialist will report to the Initiative manager and will be responsible for the quality delivery of the innovative solutions. Specifically, the specialist will facilitate the learning and iteration process as required under the innovation process as well as the networking, lobbying and advocacy that is necessary for the uptake and scaling up of the innovative solutions. The specialist is tasked to ensure that CARE’s standards for gender transformation and building resilience are adhered to and will be expected to liaise with relevant project team members to train, coach and mentor project stakeholders in a bid to facilitate systemic change. This will be a field-based role, with 20% travel time to other project locations and CARE offices.

Specific responsibilities
Responsibility #1: Technical Leadership and steer of the innovation cycle (30% of the time)
• Take lead on the ideation process in liaison with the SIM and the relevant partners, ensuring that proposed innovations address the needs of targeted communities.
• Develop clear value propositions for solutions using tools such as the business canvas.
• Define proof of concept and testable hypothesis for the innovative solutions
• Validate the food and energy solutions and their pathways to scale.
• Support the identification of scaling partners and facilitate their sustained engagement along the innovation cycle.
• Coordinate the interventions of private sector partners in liaison with the different Local Government and/or settlement level structures from ideation to scaling of innovative solutions.
Job Responsibility #2: Program quality and Learning (20%)
• Support continuous iteration of solutions and a rigorous learning process, including the use of an innovation Log.
• Developing concrete prototyping and testing plans for the solutions together with partners.
• Coordinate research and analytical processes (such as GCVCA) in close collaboration with program partners and the Program Quality and Learning team, for purposes of generating climate and gender disaggregated information and knowledge.
Job Responsibility #3: Networking, lobby and advocacy (20% of the time)
• In liaison with the IM, identify spaces for influencing policy and practice at local, national and global levels level, and support to organise the necessary engagements.
• Initiate and implement actions for strengthening gender agency based on proven CARE models and best practice, working closely with the Gender advisor and the SIM.
• Take lead on all key interventions for building resilience to climate change at community and household level, based on the CARE resilience framework and using tested CARE and/or other models and approaches.
• Promote approaches for sustaining climate change adaptation and gender behaviour change, ensuring that these approaches are integrated along the entire innovation and project cycle.
• Work closely with the SIM and the gender advisor to facilitate partner learning and systemic change towards gender transformation and building of resilience to climate change.
• Closely monitor partner interventions to ensure adherence to gender and resilience standards, with the use of CARE tools such as the quality markers.
Responsibility #5: Promote Gender Equity and Diversity and Safeguarding Practices (5%)
• Practice a behavior consistent with CARE’s core values, and promotion of gender equity and diversity goals.
• Play a leadership role in identifying and implementing initiatives that enhance CARE’s commitment to gender and diversity.
• Ensure that CARE Safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to by all and the staff that S/he supervisors both directly or indirectly.
• Ensure that staff and related personnel under your jurisdiction are familiar with the following organisational policies and procedures and can identify when needed how these may have been breached, The CI Safeguarding policy, Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse and Child Abuse, The anti-discrimination and harassment policy, The code of conduct and the organizations Values.
Responsibility #6: Any other duties assigned from time to time (5%)
• Any other duties incidental to the role or assigned by supervisor.

Education, experience, skills and knowledge
• Master’s degree in Business management, entrepreneurship, or another business-related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in facilitating community development programs. Experience of working in the Innovation ecosystem is a MUST.
• Demonstrated understanding of private sector engagement will be an asset.
• Exceptional conceptual abilities, strategic thinking, and analytical writing kills. Ability to think outside the box will be an asset.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and public speaking skills.
• Organizing skills and capacity to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated personal commitment to relevant organizational codes of conduct including anti-fraud and anti-corruption, safeguarding etc
• Leadership and interpersonal skills and proven experience influencing others without necessarily directly managing them.
• Ability to ride a motorcycle, and possession of a valid riding permit.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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