The Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. All people, no matter where their starting point in life, should have an equal chance to succeed. The Foundation believes that with access to education, financial services, and skills training, people can have that chance.
Role Overview
The Director Gender is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the Gender strategy and roadmap development in collaboration with Foundation executive leadership.
Ways You Can Contribute (Key Responsibilities)
- Drive Gender strategy and roadmap development in collaboration with Foundation executive leadership.
- Work with Foundation leaders and thematic resources to articulate and update the Gender strategy and Roadmap.
- Provide oversight on Gender programs during the various program lifecycle stages, including scoping, incubation, design, and delivery.
- Engage and maintain strong strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders, including institutions of interest, peer funders, and others relevant to the Foundation’s work in the field of Gender.
- Convene thematic expertise and advance thought leadership externally and across the Foundation – at Pan African, E&T, HECIS, and Country Program level.
- Cultivate relationships and facilitate engagements with thought leaders and other influencers to advance the Foundation's thought leadership aligned to Gender.
- Interface with Foundation business partners across other functional areas to test/refine and deploy thematic area operating models.
- Lead the team in embedding operational excellence in day-to-day prioritization of work within Gender, team resourcing, delegation of tasks to meet partner demands, performance management input and other people management processes.
- Interface with Country Directors in the design and delivery of Country Programs to ensure strategic cohesion, coordination of programming efforts, and knowledge sharing.
- Champion the integration of gender considerations across the Foundation and specifically in Country, Human Capital Development and Pan African Program portfolio design.
- Lead relevant internal and technical expert teams to advance the Foundation’s overall Gender outcomes in all areas of the Foundation’s work.
- Collaborate with leadership teams across the Foundation to co-design programs, embed designs, adequate resources and budgets to ensure implementation of safeguarding approaches and mechanisms.
- Oversee the utilization of the Foundation’s Safeguarding resources and teams to strategically and practically implement policies, procedures and guidelines that meaningfully integrate safeguarding measures across the Foundation.
Who You Are (Qualifications and Experience)
- Master’s degree in Social Sciences, including gender/women’s/youth studies, education-related field from a recognized university.
- Relevant professional qualification.
- Member of a relevant professional body.
- Minimum of fifteen (15) years’ relevant experience in a similar organization setting, with seven (7) years at a senior management level in a Pan African role or Global role.
- Experience and knowledge of/with the landscape of local, national, regional, and pan-African women’s and youth-serving organizations and networks, as well as knowledge of the country-specific social, economic and political contexts.
- Experience in partnership management, including capacity building, coordination and networking for effective gender mainstreaming and youth empowerment.
- Extensive experience in gender and youth and women-centred programme design and implementation in Africa.
- Experience in leading organizational policy development and delivery on safeguarding and ensuring its effective delivery across a global organization.
- Experience developing training and facilitating capacity building initiatives on gender, youth and women empowerment and safeguarding.
- Ability to be flexible within a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Demonstrable influencing skills at a senior leadership level and with high-profile stakeholders.
- Proven success in developing and leading a global team.
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, able to manage conflict and handle sensitive issues, particularly in cross-cultural and cross-departmental contexts.
- Positive, solution-focused attitude.
- Proven people management skills and team-building skills.
- Experience in the design and analysis of monitoring, evaluation and research.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a multi-cultural team.
- Excellent written, presentation and communication skills.
- High attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
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