Head of Gender

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African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Think Tank
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 29/11/2024
  • Location: Ghana
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI) Economic justice
About ACET
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) is a Pan-African economic policy institute supporting Africa’s long-term growth through transformation. We work directly with African governments, businesses, and civil society—within countries and across borders—to remove policy barriers to sustainable, inclusive development.
We are headquartered in Accra, Ghana but boast a diverse staff based across several continents. 
 
Roles and Responsibilities
Research and Analysis
  • Oversight and expansion of ACET’s gender and economic transformation portfolio. This will include managing staff and overseeing fellows working on gender and economic transformation programs and ensuring alignment with the ACET Strategy and Theory of Change.  Key programs currently include:
    • Implementation of key recommendations from the African Transformation Report on Gender Equality/Equity and Economic Transformation (ATR4)
    • Gender equality scorecard
    • Mainstreaming of gender across the ACET program portfolio
    • Ensuring all ACET programs with partners includes a strong gender lens
  • Provide intellectual leadership to ACET policy analysis and technical work on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This will include the development of a world class gender equality program that delivers high quality analysis and thought leadership on gender equity, equality, women’s economic empowerment and other relevant areas that may emerge
Development of ACET colleagues and supervision of gender team
  • Train and develop ACET colleagues on gender responsive programming and coach/mentor junior staff to build their technical expertise
  • Provide training to ACET research teams on how to monitor and assess gender impacts of policy actions across program verticals
Resource Mobilization
  • Design and develop program strategies in the area of gender equity/equality and economic transformation to facilitate fundraising
  • Work with the fundraising team to raise funds for the expansion of the gender portfolio
Communication and Publications
  • Contribute to articles, blogs, policy notes and papers for publications by ACET and its partners. This will include mining past reports to inform the development of knowledge products and briefs
  • Be a spokesperson on gender equality at various forums and with the media
Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time in support of ACET’s mission
 
Education/Experience
  • PhD or Master’s degree in gender studies, gender economics or a related discipline ( economics, development studies, political science and sociology)
  • In-depth post-master’s experience conducting research and evaluation on gender economics. Experience of doing this in Africa will be an asset. Africa regional experience will be a plus
  • Previous experience working on gender equality and/or equity policy in economics Africa
  • An understanding of economic transformation will be an asset.

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