Total 3 job vacancies by Investing in Women

About the Opportunity

The Program Administrator for Workstream 4 (W4, Impact Investing) is responsible for providing administrative support to activities undertaken by the Impact Investing team.  They will work closely with W4’s key partners as well as IW’s Contracts and Procurement Team, HR and Office Services Team, and Short-Term Personnel Consultants.

The Program Administrator will:

• Support the implementation of the Impact Investing Strategy through partnerships.
• Liaise with the HR and Contracts & Procurement teams on STP engagements, procurement needs, partners, subcontractors, translators; follow through on contract creation, variation, closure, deliverables, and facilitation of payments.
• Proactively monitor partner compliance, performance, and risks, regularly reporting to line manager.
• In consultation with the Workstream Director and Technical Lead, develop and implement systems, tools, and/or templates to facilitate project management and monitoring.
• Manage the team’s record keeping, ensuring an efficient and effective system for storage and retrieval of files.
• Provide logistical support to team meetings and events.
• Contribute to the team’s reporting by providing input as necessary.
• Perform other relevant tasks for the team, as requested.

Employment type and duration:   

• 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: To 30 June 2027; anticipated to commence in April 2024.

About the Opportunity

IW's approach includes a continuous learning and adaptation process, guided by the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Framework. This framework assesses IW's progress towards its goals, testing and applying methods to build an evidence base for program learning, adjustments and decision-making. The outcomes from the MERL Framework will not only guide IW's performance but also contribute to the wider understanding of Women's Economic Empowerment in the region.

Investing in Women is seeking to explore medial monitoring tools and services or other technologies to address the information requirements of the program. Technology and industry landscapes have evolved considerably, and there is opportunity to explore new or improved solutions to address IW’s media monitoring requirements.

IW is looking to contract a content expert to review the available options, determine whether a media monitoring tool or service would be suitable, or if other more novel solutions are currently available to meet the identified need.

About You

IW is seeking a suitably qualified content expert to (1) review the available media monitoring options, (2) help determine which/whether a media monitoring tool or service would be suitable, or if other more novel solutions are currently available to meet the identified need.

Key Responsibilities:

• In consultation with the IW team, the consultant will explore and provide a list to IW of the available media monitoring tools and/or services (including pricing and features)
• Analyse and compare solutions, identifying any differences between the tools or services and mapping the viability of these solutions for use in tracking the indicators identified across the program.
• Report on the findings of the analysis to the IW team and provide recommendations which tool or service, or combination both, best meets the program’s needs and offers the best value for money.
• May include other tasks as agreed with IW

Please see more information about the opportunity in TOR - Media Monitoring Consultant

Employment type and location:  Short-term Personnel, remote work

Duration: Up to 5 days by 31 March 2024; anticipated to commence on 15 March 2024

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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.