CARE USA Director for Global VSLA Jobs in Malawi
JOB SUMMARY:
CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and addressing social injustice, with a particular focus on upholding human rights, promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls. CARE works in diverse contexts, encompassing both protracted crises to stable development settings.
CARE recognizes the fundamental importance of equality and acknowledges that such equality cannot be attained as longer as women have fewer economic rights, limited control over economic resources, and restricted access to economic opportunities compared to men. One of the approaches that CARE uses as a platform to drive women’s socio-economic empowerment is its flagship model, Village Savings and Loans Associations.
CARE developed a scale-up strategy for it in 2018 and recently reviewed it based on the lessons learned from the four years of its implementation. The strategy goal is to ensure that by 2030, 62 million people (of which 50 million women and girls) are economically and socially empowered through savings groups, thus reducing poverty and increasing gender equality.
As part of the dynamic VSLA team, the Deputy Director-VSLA Programs Integration will oversee the CARE Direct Sub-strategy of the Global VSLA. This will include supporting country office and regional scale-up strategy development; co-creating programs and project designs; contributing to and/or leading proposal and fundraising efforts; providing technical support to project start-up and implementation; and supporting CARE’s efforts to continually learn from and improve our initiatives.
He will advocate for the transformative work and incremental impacts of our VSLA to both internal and external audiences and serve as a team’s point of contact for VSLA integration, layering, and sequencing.
In addition, the position is expected to collaborate closely with other CARE USA departments (such as PPL and FWS) to ensure that the work aligns with the organization’s larger objectives and takes into consideration the humanitarian-development nexus as well as managing major initiatives as required.
In a nutshell, the position affords its occupant unparallel opportunities to influence the work of CARE and deepen impact that specifically contributes to women’s financial autonomy and economic independence.
Responsibilities:
Strategy and Programme Quality for Greater VSLA Scale and Impact
The Deputy Director supports the Director in development and review of CARE Direct sub-strategy, including the expansion of our work in other sectoral global programs that integrate VSLA.
Primary contributor in the area of village savings and loan associations (VSLA) and financial inclusion within CARE’s program integration and layering efforts. Specifically, he or she will focus on enhancing food and nutrition security through the incorporation of VSLA as a fundamental component of FWS programming
Support the quality implementation of VSLA linkages to formal financial services while contributing towards quality digital solution integration.
Develop or adapt technical resources, including guides, case studies, and other learning tools, to build capacity for financial inclusion and collective investment, particularly contributing to the overall socio-economic empowerment of women and driving food and nutrition security.
Build and maintain close relationships with FWS colleagues within and outside CARE and across and between teams to facilitate a constant flow of information and learning.
Contribute to private sector engagement for increased access and usage of financial support as well as agribusiness in order to support the development of win-win solutions that have the potential to transform
Fundraising and Resource mobilization
Work closely with the Director of the team to coordinate and spearhead fundraising and resource mobilization efforts that seek to increase funding for programs. The incumbent will;
Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts to expand CARE VSLA programming and overall livelihoods programming along the VSLA scale up strategy
Participate in proposal development, working across units with the Strategic Partnerships and the FSW to pursue proposals, and with headquarters and country offices to bring in new funding opportunities to advance CARE’s work streams.
Support the food Security and Resilience team on RFSA bids.
Work with other STAs and the Director to provide quick high quality and robust inputs and responses to bids, proposals and other opportunities that support the team to raise resources for programming.
Work primarily with the Institutional Fundraising Team ) to support resource mobilization efforts to advance CARE’s work in the area of VSLA and Food and Nutritional Security.
Drive learning and program quality throughout program integration and layering of VSLA
As part of our increasing need to multiply impact through knowledge management, partnerships and learning, the incumbent will;
Support Documentation and development of publications that demonstrate impact and systems development of program integration and layering of VSLA. These will include peer reviewed Journal articles, short human interest stories, Blog articles and other documentation that shows Cares work in market systems development.
Support Country offices and program teams to develop and write thought pieces, experience sharing and other publications showing CARE VSLA plus work in the field.
Develop power-points and other pieces that aim to publicize and bring awareness of the major work in CARE VSLA program integration and layering including VSLA members’ graduation models.
Contribute to cross sectoral learning and innovation with other PSI programs and initiatives. Identify and capture and share innovations, best or promising practices, and lessons learned to increase technical excellence especially in conjunction with FSW.
Share opportunities for internal and external knowledge sharing and collaborate on communications/learning/advocacy materials (webinars, briefs, etc.)
Staff Management and Leadership
This responsibility requires excellent competency and skills in areas of team building, coordination, delegation with support and accountability, problem solving, and strategic decision-making. The incumbent is responsible for:
Potentially serve as project director/ CoP on select grants, coordinating planning and implementation of project activities and overseeing all aspects of program quality (programmatic, financial, administrative, personnel).
Supporting the team in recruiting and retaining staff on the integration, layering, and sequencing of VSLAs within and outside CARE
Providing leadership, coaching, and supervision of VSLA-FSW and scaling VSLAs through corporates’ staff and continuous quality improvement in the context of integration and layering of the VSLA programming framework.
Support recruitment and staffing for positions for other teams, including the markets and business approaches team, supporting identification of the right caliber of people, reviewing and developing appropriate job descriptions, and ensuring that country teams and programs are able to recruit and retain high quality.
Qualifications:
MA in development studies/economics/social science/microfinance or related subject, or equivalent expertise and additional enterprise and private sector engagement training
Deep, practical understanding of villages savings and loan associations or similar savings group modalities
10+ years in program management, Technical assistance and program design
Demonstrated capacity to utilize and support others in utilizing a range of learning tools and approaches, both virtual and in-person years of senior management/leadership experience with international agencies
10 years of experience in international programming in economic development or food and nutrition security
Experience in GED and geographically disbursed and multidisciplinary team management
Successful fundraising experience
Planning for and oversight of large budgets
Experience in research design and monitoring and evaluation
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; CARE USA Director for Global VSLA Jobs in Malawi
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