Principal, Gender and Economic Inclusion

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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Development Bank
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 14/07/2023
  • Location: United Kingdom
Economic justice Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
 
  • In line with the Bank’s Transition mandate, leads the design and supports the assessment and monitoring of investment projects and TCs for their impact on inclusion and gender as part of transition, through engagement with Banking project teams and due diligence visits to the region;
  • Supports the establishment of inclusion and gender baselines, the assessment of relevant international best practice models and the design of gender and inclusive activities at project and policy dialogue levels, with a specific focus on inclusive regions, inclusive urban regeneration and other thematic areas, as required;
  • Monitors and assesses reform challenges and progress in relation to inclusion and gender issues within the Bank’s countries of operation and leads on the design and delivery of inclusion policy dialogue, through analytical work, contributions towards strategy papers and direct liaison with key senior level stakeholders such as education authorities, private sector clients and strategic partners of the Bank (e.g. the European Training Foundation, UNDP);
  • Leads on the development and delivery of inclusion and gender policy engagement programmes, including the identification of key partners, the establishment of policy platforms, the setting of specific policy goals and the delivery of policy priority objectives in partnership with internal and external senior level stakeholders (including banking teams);
  • Manages the development of inclusion and gender Technical Cooperation (TC) projects (and larger Inclusion TC Frameworks) to support the inclusion elements of projects, specifically in relation to youth inclusion and gender through improved (vocational) education and training or access to finance, supports the selection and management of consultants and monitoring of impact and lessons learned;
  • As part of the Bank’s Scorecard, advises on the inclusion element for transition ratings and monitoring of inclusion related transition impact benchmarks, covering projects for  the Bank’s Operational Committees (OpsCom, SBIC, and TCCom);
  • Contributes inclusion and gender analysis to country and sector strategies discussed by the EBRD’s Board of Directors and relevant sub-committees to deliver results in the form of evidence-based improvements;
  • Supports the drafting and analytical work to provide input into management briefing for Board and other Committee meetings, including responses to questions by Board Advisors and, on occasion, bespoke papers, presentations or other inputs for such Committees. Takes the lead on drafting input into briefing notes and presentations for EPG senior management contributions to the Bank’s management committees (ExCom, SP Com and RiskCom);

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications
  • A postgraduate degree in economics, international development, gender or related field from a leading university; a PhD is an advantage;
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, at the standard required for professional publication and official documents;

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