Manager Women Financial Inclusion

Description:

The Senior Manager/Manager WFI is responsible for championing the idea of women financial inclusion in the ecosystem. This individual will be in charge of creating, guiding, and implementing a top-notch program aimed at guaranteeing that women reap the rewards of KRN's initiatives. This role involves comprehending and then addressing the systematic and practice-related prejudices and limitations that hinder women from deriving complete advantages from financial services.

Job Responsibilities

Strategy & Mainstreaming

Operationalizing Karandaaz Gender Strategy for DFS including design and implementation of gender inclusion projects with the private sector, creation and dissemination of information that supports and guides women to be financially included and integrating gender mainstreaming & gender transformative approach to existing programmatic work.
Lead the gender inclusion strategy, implementation, evidence monitoring, impact and learning agenda.
Lead KRN Digital’s understanding (supply-side and policy efforts, demand-side needs) on current engagements across all industry actors on gender in financial services
Understand, integrate and develop tools to effectively monitor gender mainstreaming among KRN digital programs
Provide support for gender review of internal processes and procedures of partner organizations/investee companies
Participate actively in policy forums and platforms w.r.t. financial inclusion
Make recommendations on changes on set strategies where necessary

Workplan Delivery

Devise annual budgets for the gender financial inclusion interventions
Manage the operationalization and execution of the gender financial inclusion-based interventions and deliver on both developmental and budgetary targets
Develop tools to support gender integration within KRN and partner interventions
Equip the staff and partner staff with gender analysis and assessment tools to enhance performance.
Support the monitoring and review of gender work within KRN and partner organizations

Research & Thought Leadership

Liaison with the research wing and lead the commissioning of demand and supply side studies/researches that directly investigate barriers and opportunities w.r.t. financial products for women and youth.
Conduct proactive market analysis to identify case studies and examples of products and services that have effectively addressed the target segments
Extend technical assistance and support to policy makers working to improve inclusiveness of policy frameworks
Conduct periodic contextual analysis on women financial services to inform policy advocacy and programming
Develop insights policy briefs, blogs and other relevant communication outputs for easy dissemination of research findings in conjunction with the communications team
Ensure outreach and dissemination to relevant stakeholders to improve chances of uptake of the research
Identify information needs/research gaps and develop gap filing strategies
Liaison with other national and international women financial inclusion development partners to develop Pakistan specific case studies and insights

Monitoring and Reporting on Gender Work in Karandaaz

Provide professional guidance to staff and partners on gender monitoring and evaluation.
Ensure evidence-based reporting mechanisms for Sex and Age Disaggregated Data (SADD)
Any other task necessary to optimize the gender agenda at KRN

Eligibility

Education & Experience

Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Development Economics, Business Management, Development Finance or a related discipline. Any additional training course on financial inclusion will be added advantage.
At least 6-8 years of overall experience. 3-4 years of demonstrated experience in implementing and managing interventions for introducing/expansion of digital financial services.
Demonstrated experience in either developing gender tools and frameworks and/or delivering these frameworks and tools (internally within the organization and externally with partners).
In-depth experience with a gender portfolio, gender-related programming, financial product management for women segment(s) will be a plus.
Experience of working with policymakers, regulatory bodies etc. will be an added advantage.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Understanding of a not-for-profit organization
In-depth understanding of the gender agenda with an ability to demonstrate views on gender mainstreaming within programs
Excellent skills Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Intermediate level skill in Google Suite
Strong command over oral and written English. Should be fluent in Urdu.
Exceptional communication skills
Exceptional stakeholder management
Exceptional analytical skills
Strong problem-solving skills
Ability to work collaboratively as a team player with key stakeholder groups including other DFS team members, senior management and external partners
Self-starter, motivated and a result-orientated individual who can work independently