Director Gender Equity and Social Inclusion GESI

Institutional leadership:

The candidate is expected to fully institutionalize GESI at CIFORICRAF and assure coordination across the institution. She/he will lead an interdisciplinary team of GESI specialists to include projectbased CIFORICRAF staff working on GESI within their own area or theme of expertise (gender youth indigenous peoples migrants etc. within CIFORICRAF thematic and country teams). She/he will teambuild with these staff facilitating and supporting the development of cohorts and focal points. S/he will support continued professional development and visibility of the core GESI team while building additional GESI expertise across the institution through training programs on basic GESI concepts and applications in project management and emerging directions in GESI for research and development. The Director will lead especially on gender and support gender mainstreaming throughout the research and development portfolio(s) and support focal points to provide intersectional specialization on other dimensions of social inclusion.

Communications and impact:

The candidate will work across institutional units and processes to ensure gender and GESI mainstreaming throughout and unifying messaging across internal and external communications. She/he will work closely with the communications and GLF resource mobilization and partnerships teams to enhance the visibility of CIFORICRAF GESI expertise within our established spheres of influence as well as extend our reach into gender

Institutional leadership:

The candidate is expected to fully institutionalize GESI at CIFORICRAF and assure coordination across the institution. She/he will lead an interdisciplinary team of GESI specialists to include projectbased CIFORICRAF staff working on GESI within their own area or theme of expertise (gender youth indigenous peoples migrants etc. within CIFORICRAF thematic and country teams). She/he will teambuild with these staff facilitating and supporting the development of cohorts and focal points. S/he will support continued professional development and visibility of the core GESI team while building additional GESI expertise across the institution through training programs on basic GESI concepts and applications in project management and emerging directions in GESI for research and development. The Director will lead especially on gender and support gender mainstreaming throughout the research and development portfolio(s) and support focal points to provide intersectional specialization on other dimensions of social inclusion.

Communications and impact:

The candidate will work across institutional units and processes to ensure gender and GESI mainstreaming throughout and unifying messaging across internal and external communications. She/he will work closely with the communications and GLF resource mobilization and partnerships teams to enhance the visibility of CIFORICRAF GESI expertise within our established spheres of influence as well as extend our reach into gender and identityspecific fora to bring nexus approaches with other CIFORICRAF impact areas into better focus.

She/he will develop systems for evaluation and messaging such that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts to catalyze greater institutional impact. The candidate will build upon and amplify important institutional contributions for example in genderresponsive and rightsbased approaches and more recent pioneering work on gender transformative approaches to establish CIFORICRAF as the goto place for R&D for GTAs in food systems forests agroforestry landscapes.

Strategic networking advocacy and engagement

The candidate will lead the development and implementation of CIFORICRAFs GESI strategy and engage with a range of relevant stakeholders targeting the most important and influential international organizations and donors as well as civil society academia governments and private sector actors. This includes engagement in key international gender spheres such as the gender caucuses of the 3 UN conventions UN women and the CG gender accelerator and with social movements such as the Stand for her Land campaign; and others in the forests agroforests landscapes food systems and climate change arenas. The candidate will further endeavor to elevate other staff within the GESI team to represent CIFORICRAF and their thematic expertise in strategic events and platforms.

Resource mobilization

The candidate is expected to mobilize resources to support both genderspecific R&D and gender integration into projects as well as unsolicited funding. The candidate will lead an ambitious fundraising campaign to assure the ongoing prominence of GESI work throughout the organization working with the research staff on strategy and proposals; courting the donor community; and fostering relationships between staff and donors. This will include capacity building amongst GESI specialists to support fundraising efforts and relevant meetings with potential funders.

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