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CEEW seeks to hire a suitable candidate as a consultant to lead the work on gender inclusion in Powering Livelihoods, a joint initiative between CEEW and Villgro. The $3-million initiative provides financial and capacity-building support to enterprises with clean energy-based livelihood technologies to undertake large-scale commercial deployments. By leveraging enterprise growth, the programme generates rigorous evidence about the impact, viability and scalability of these solutions to garner the support of investors, financiers and policymakers to realise the $50 billion market opportunity.
Powering Livelihoods has a strong focus to further gender-inclusion in the clean energy for livelihood sector. Through financial and technical assistance, it supports enterprises in adopting gender-inclusive business strategies. The gender inclusion strategies focus on three areas: enterprise, end-users, and value chain partners, with a particular focus on enhancing women end-users and the level of impact on women end-users.
CEEW leads the sectoral growth and evidence generation for the programme and the gender specialist would be expected to lead the gender component of this work with the gender team at CEEW and Villgro. S/he will be responsible for leading the (gender) research, sectoral engagement and evaluation at CEEW, and advising team members at Villgro to mainstream gender inclusion in enterprise capacity building.
Enterprise Capacity Building Support [Lead Villgro, Support CEEW]
The enterprise capacity building support includes a technical assistance (TA) component focusing on gender-inclusion across the enterprise operations. These would include co-identification of gender-inclusion opportunities for the enterprise across the value-chain; co-developing a gender intentional business strategy to target more women customers; providing gender sensitisation training for senior management.
Enterprise Financial Support [Lead Villgro, Support CEEW]
The financial assistance pertaining to gender-inclusion focuses on (i) either scaling the existing activities if the enterprise is already focusing on gender inclusion in a significant way or have a significant proportion of women end-users; (ii) or supporting the implementation of gender-inclusive strategies and tactics, as identified under the TA component, across the enterprise value chain, with a particular focus on end-users; (iii) or both.
Sectoral Growth Support [Lead CEEW, Support Villgro]
The sectoral growth support aims to improve the awareness of the sector stakeholders --policymakers, financiers, investors, and market-enablers-- towards the approaches and benefits of gender-inclusion in the ‘clean energy for livelihood’ sector. We aim to (i) generate knowledge products with regard to the best practices to effectively integrate gender-inclusion among energy-livelihood businesses; (ii) gather evidence on the impact of various gender inclusion approaches implemented by the cohort enterprises; (iii) disseminate the knowledge and evidence among sector stakeholders to build and enhance the discourse on the topic and eventually sensitise stakeholders to the needs and benefits of gender-inclusive approaches. The knowledge products would include the following:
Competitive compensation – commensurate to the experience and matching the best of standards adopted by industry or other similar organisations for similar roles.
CEEW is an equal opportunity employer and the selection process does not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, caste, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Interested candidates are requested to send their CV and cover letter (in one PDF) to jobs@ceew.in with ‘Application: Consultant - Senior Gender Specialist, Powering Livelihoods' as the subject line. We review applications on a rolling basis. Interested applicants are advised to apply at the earliest possible.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We appreciate your interest.