About the Opportunity
We are seeking an individual who will ensure that IW effectively collaborates, coordinates and cooperates with multiple stakeholders, including the Australian Embassy in the Philippines, representatives of the Government of the Philippines and a range of Filipino implementing and policy partners for strong communication and take-up of strategic opportunities to advance end-of-program outcomes.
The Philippines Technical and Policy Reform Lead will:
Client Management
- Manage IW’s engagement with the Australian Embassy in the Philippines:
- Promoting and supporting strong linkages between IW and Post.
- Provide the Embassy with current and relevant information relating to program implementation and provide entry points for enhanced knowledge sharing with other DFAT programs.
- Work with the Embassy to identify public diplomacy opportunities to build DFAT’s private sector relationships, advance DFAT’s bilateral policy reform agendas, and create opportunities for DFAT dialogue on contemporary gender issues with key actors.
- Support regular coordination mechanisms with DFAT Post including quarterly Country Sub-Committee Meetings, annual Staff Planning meetings, the annual review of the Philippines Country Strategy, and program reporting.
Policy Leadership
- Develop and maintain networks with relevant policy stakeholders across the Philippines to identify potential for policy reforms impacting the care economy.
- Work with Workstream 2 Director to develop initiatives and establish partnerships to enable policy reform impacting the care economy in the Philippines in line with IW’s Enabling Care Policy Reform Strategy, including identifying opportunities, collaborative design, procurement, contracting, negotiation and stakeholder management.
- Lead the delivery of Workstream 2 partnerships and policy interventions in the Philippines, including partnership and contract management.
- Work with IW’s Monitoring, evaluation, learning and research (MERL) team to support the monitoring of Workstream 2 partner progress and impact assessment in the Philippines.
- Work with the Workstream 2 Director and Technical Coherence Senior Manager to support Workstream 2 reporting of partner progress and impact in the Philippines.
- Work with the Workstream 2 Director to develop and deliver multi-country initiatives, including knowledge sharing forums.
Technical Leadership
- Lead the development and annual review/update of IW’s country-level strategy for the Philippines, reflecting an analysis of context, stakeholders, country and regional level priorities, and synergies with other DFAT programs, in consultation with DFAT.
- Ensure IW activities are adaptive and responsive to the Philippine country context and are delivered in line with country-level economic prospects, private sector interests, policy context and prevalent social norms.
- Work with IW Workstream Directors to support strategic local and regional partnerships that demonstrate the links between improving the enabling environment for women’s economic participation and their empowerment, and support IW’s End of Program Outcomes (EOPOs):
- EOPO1 Workplace Gender Equality: More workplaces adopt and implement workplace gender equality organisational changes.
- EOPO2 Enabling Policy Reform: Policy stakeholders are influenced by private sector perspectives and other evidence related to care economy and/or WEE.
- EOPO3 Campaigns and Communities of Practice: More early adopters of gender equality demonstrate progressive behaviour and advocate for broader change.
- EOPO4 Gender Lens Investing: Increase investment in businesses that disproportionately benefit women across targeted countries.
- Ensure IW complements and amplifies the relevant agendas of development actors and other key stakeholders in the Philippines, including but not limited to: UNWomen, IFC, ADB, UNESCAP, Oxfam Pilipinas.
- Support IW Workstreams and partners to identify entry points that specifically target women who experience intersecting forms of bias and disadvantage, including women with disabilities.
Employment type and location: A citizen role, but open to others who have legal right to work in country under a local compensation package. Based in Manila, Philippines.
Duration: 3 years, up to 30 June 2027; anticipated to commence in May 2024.
