Overview
Provide technical support in mainstreaming gender equality and women's empowerment across ADB operations, knowledge work, and partnerships. Contribute to the effective application of ADB's gender mainstreaming standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute technical inputs to advance ADB's policy and strategic commitments on gender equality and women's empowerment.
- Apply gender mainstreaming standards and support integration of gender equality outcomes in project design and processing.
- Contribute to the formulation of country partnership strategies by preparing/updating Country Gender Assessments.
- Provide technical advice and inputs on gender equality and women empowerment during project preparation, implementation, and completion.
- Support gender related technical assistance activities.
- Act as a CCGE focal for sector, themes, regions or the private sector, as assigned.
- Lead and contribute to knowledge events, capacity building activities, and preparation of knowledge products.
- Design and conduct training to executing and implementing agencies, clients, and project staff on gender equality.
- Provide technical support to Director, Gender Equality in gender-related corporate initiatives.
Required Experience
- At least 6 years of work experience in gender and development, including field‑level experience in mainstreaming gender equality and women's empowerment into country, regional, and/or sector operations.
- Demonstrated experience in gender mainstreaming within public financial management, energy, agriculture and natural resources, and water and urban development sectors, would be strongly desirable.
- Demonstrated expertise in building capacity for implementing gender equality initiatives with stakeholders from the public and private sector and other development partners, including CSOs.
- Demonstrated experience in leading innovative knowledge products or initiatives in gender equality and women's empowerment (including events).
- International experience working in several countries with a multilateral development bank or other international development organization.
- Proven experience in effectively managing budgets and teams.
- Proven experience in donor relations and partnership development.
- Two years of relevant experience outside ADB within the past five years is required.
Qualifications
• A University degree in social sciences, international development, public policy or other related fields, including an emphasis on gender and development; preferably at post-graduate level or its equivalent
