Senior Program Officer, Program Advocacy & Communications - Gender Equality

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Gates Foundation

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Philanthropy
  • 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: 27/09/2024
  • Location: India 
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The Team
The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation’s work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation’s objectives nationally and globally. 

 
What you’ll do 
  • Strategy Development and Execution: Responsible for identification, development, and successful implementation of the GE Program Advocacy and Communications (PAC) strategies and priorities by using a range of foundation tactics and approaches (for example, developing policy briefs, undertaking policy and budget analysis, building partnerships, generating evidence, building champions and coalitions, mobilizing resources, communications, strengthening domestic institutions, and other tactics or approaches to effectively deliver on ICO’s GE goals.  
  • Relationship and Stakeholder Management: Lead relationships with key government departments, institutions, quasi-government bodies, industry associations, institutions, and other critical stakeholders at the national and state levels and track progress on priority policy issues related to the foundation’s GE strategy.  
  • Grantmaking: Refine and implement a grantmaking strategy that complements programmatic team efforts to accelerate GE goals, specifically focusing on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), Women in Leadership (WIL), and Digital Connectivity (DC). Key levers to focus on include access to capital, access to markets, inclusive digital ecosystem, and childcare and care infrastructure. This includes management of existing investments and identifying new investments in partnership with country and global teams to advance the goals.  
  • Diffusion and Evidence Generation: Develop policy briefs, undertake financing analysis, bring together and share insights and innovations, and generate evidence in partnership with the measurement learning and evaluation (MLE) team to diffuse and accelerate impactful interventions at the national level and state level and help drive the creation of global public goods (e.g. reports, briefs, decks) that benefit the GE and other collaborators and policymakers. 

Your Experience
  • Advanced degree in public policy, or a related field (e.g. economics, development studies, gender studies, sociology, etc.)  
  • A minimum of 8 years of experience working in government, public affairs, multilateral institutions, civil society organizations, and/or corporate roles with experience in program design, and strategy execution in the area of development, with gender equality as a thematic area of interest.  
  • Strong advocacy and influencing ability for resource mobilization, policy analysis, communications, coalition building, and partnership development.  
  • A breadth of knowledge and experience working with a range of key partners working to advance GE in India on the range of key gender, business, finance, and economic policy issues related to WEE, WIL, and Digital Connectivity.  
  • Experience developing and implementing campaigns and advocacy strategies that support the policy and financing goals.  
  • Proven track record of government relations and partnership management that focuses on Gender Equality and having in-depth experience and knowledge of India’s political economy.  
  • Strategy development and execution expertise with the ability to guide implementation, delivery, and impact measurement.  

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