Technical Director, Youth & Gender

Overview

Since 1963 and in 148 nations, ACDI/VOCA has empowered folks in creating and transitional nations to reach the worldwide economic system. Based mostly in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit worldwide improvement group that designs and delivers technical and administration options in agriculture, financial progress, and resilience to advertise financial prosperity and social inclusion. Past our aggressive compensation, full array of insurances, beneficiant 401(okay) plan, parental go away, commuter subsidy, profession improvement, we additionally provide a vibrant, pleasant, numerous, inclusive, passionate, and galvanizing work atmosphere.

The Technical Director, Youth and Gender is chargeable for main the implementation of ACDI/VOCA’s Youth Technique via the supply of technical help to project-based groups and new enterprise initatives, and improvement and dissemination of high-quality technical approaches and sources. As a part of the Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Staff within the Technical Studying and Software (TLA) Division, the Technical Director will present help to the ACDI/VOCA Household of Firms (ACDI/VOCA, Tanager, and AV Ventures) on optimistic youth improvement, gender equality, feminine empowerment, and social inclusion in agriculture, local weather change, meals safety, market programs improvement, entry to finance, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and associated sectors. The Technical Director will report back to the Vice President, Gender and Social Inclusion and can handle employees members which can be assigned to report back to this place. Duties and obligations will fall below 4 operational classes: technical help and companies (roughly 40%), new enterprise improvement and design (roughly 30%), organization-wide studying and useful resource improvement (roughly 15%), and administration of employees (roughly 15%).

• Grasp’s diploma required in worldwide improvement, worldwide research, gender research, behavioral or agricultural economics, agronomy, sociology or different associated subject most popular. Extra years of expertise might be thought of in lieu of superior diploma.
• Minimal of seven (7) years’ expertise, together with abroad work, in worldwide improvement or associated subject.
• Capability and willingness to journey internationally required; could also be required to be absolutely vaccinated in opposition to Covid 19 based mostly on nation necessities.

The wage vary for this place is $93,036 to $120,827; the candidate’s related expertise and abilities, in addition to our inside fairness, might be thought of earlier than a proposal is prolonged.

Tasks

Lead implementation of ACDI/VOCA’s Youth Technique in help of ACDI/VOCA’s Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Apply: Guarantee technical high quality and supply help to venture groups.

• Lead and help the operationalization of the ACDI/VOCA Youth Technique, together with the event of organizational strategic priorities for youth programming, coordination of technical sources, organizational studying questions and indicators.
• Present ongoing, responsive technical help and steering to initiatives to boost high quality utility of ACDI/VOCA’s GESI Coverage, GenderFirst, and/or Constructive Youth Improvement approaches in agriculture, local weather change, meals safety, market programs improvement, entry to finance, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture packages,
• Lead and/or oversee discrete and ongoing technical companies collaboratively with venture groups, together with preliminary startup employees trainings, conducting GYSI analyses, designing venture methods and facilitation actions, creating GYSI methods and motion plans, and creating methods for participating youth in venture actions.
• Lead, design, supervise, and help analysis encompassing revolutionary, prime quality mixed- and complexity-aware strategies, qualitative and quantitative research that adhere to moral requirements.
• Present ongoing mentoring and technical steering throughout annual work planning, and informing acceptable monitoring, analysis and studying approaches.
• Construct capability of venture groups to implement ACDI/VOCA’s GESI Coverage, GenderFirst, and/or Constructive Youth Improvement approaches via facilitated trainings and distant engagement.
• Write insightful merchandise for numerous audiences, together with analysis studies, white papers, and different outputs, reminiscent of studying briefs and reader-friendly blogs.

New Enterprise Improvement: Present technical steering and management to new enterprise groups and develop proposal content material.

• Lead and coordinate organizational positioning, identification, and prioritization of strategic youth alternatives, together with improvement and administration of companion relationships.
• Present technical oversight and help to proposals, making certain gender, youth, and social inclusion are successfully built-in all through proposal course of.
• Function technical author, contributing author, or material professional for proposals.
• Combine finest practices for Constructive Youth Improvement and interesting youth in climate-smart agriculture, inclusive market programs, resilience, meals safety, and vitamin.

Organizational Studying and Useful resource Improvement: Promote and domesticate collaborative alternatives for studying and sharing internally and externally.

• Present management in selling and enhancing ACDI/VOCA’s Constructive Youth Improvement, youth engagement, and/or GYSI approaches.
• Lead, oversee, and facilitate the dissemination of studying, promising practices, and sources on Constructive Youth Improvement, youth engagement, and/or GYSI from venture workplaces throughout the group.
• Interact with companions and thought leaders within the trade via exterior occasions, skilled improvement alternatives, working teams, and communities of apply.
• Strategically promote ACDI/VOCA’s picture as a studying group with technical strengths in gender, youth, and inclusive agriculture and market programs. Foster good relationships with trade companions and people and take part/current at worldwide and home conferences, workshops, and conferences.

Technical Supervision: Supervise technical employees via ongoing teaching, mentorship, and managing youth technical assignments.

• Handle employees reporting to this place, together with offering technical supervision, teaching, and mentorship.
• Decide useful resource allocation to initiatives, proposals, and technical initiatives, significantly associated to youth technical help wants.
• Determine capability constructing wants and supply suggestions for skilled improvement.
• Instill, strengthen, and promote a tradition of range, fairness, inclusion, and belonging throughout the crew, driving behaviors that employees will emulate​.

Extra duties:

• Host or attend in individual conferences as wanted, when required.
• Different duties as assigned.

{Qualifications}

To carry out this job efficiently, a person should be capable to carry out every important responsibility satisfactorily. The necessities listed under are consultant of the data, abilities, and/or means required. Cheap lodging could also be made to allow people with disabilities to carry out the important capabilities.

• Grasp’s diploma required in worldwide improvement, worldwide research, gender research, behavioral or agricultural economics, agronomy, sociology or different associated subject most popular. Extra years of expertise might be thought of in lieu of superior diploma.
• Minimal of seven years’ expertise, together with abroad work, in worldwide improvement or associated subject.
• Distinctive management, administration, analytical, and demanding pondering abilities with the flexibility to work throughout a world, matrixed group.
• A collegial administration type that emphasizes each reaching outcomes and dealing in a extremely expert, collaborative, and numerous crew.
• Demonstrated expertise and technical data of optimistic youth improvement inside worldwide improvement, significantly associated to workforce improvement, climate-smart and/or nutrition-sensitive agriculture, or market programs improvement required.
• Demonstrated expertise and technical data in gender and social inclusion inside worldwide improvement, significantly associated to agriculture, local weather change, meals safety, market programs improvement, entry to finance, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture
• Expertise with USAID and USDA agriculture and market programs programming, significantly Feed the Future and Meals for Peace, strongly
• Information of quantitative and qualitative analysis strategies and requirements, with subject analysis expertise required.
• Expertise conducting gender evaluation/evaluation and gender trainings for US and abroad audiences required.
• Sturdy interpersonal and crew abilities, with means to work with people from numerous backgrounds and cultures.
• Wonderful verbal and written communication abilities required.
• Fluency in English required. Skilled proficiency in French or Spanish strongly most popular.
• Should be out there throughout core enterprise hours and/or working hours for worldwide time variations; flexibility to work extra hours when wanted.
• Should adhere to our firm’s Well being Security Code of Conduct and exhibit the group’s dedication to sustaining a wholesome and secure work atmosphere.