JOB SUMMARY:
CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and addressing social injustice, with a particular focus on upholding human rights, promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls. CARE works in diverse contexts, encompassing both protracted crises to stable development settings. CARE recognizes the fundamental importance of equality and acknowledges that such equality cannot be attained as longer as women have fewer economic rights, limited control over economic resources, and restricted access to economic opportunities compared to men. One of the approaches that CARE uses as a platform to drive women’s socio-economic empowerment is its flagship model, Village Savings and Loans Associations. CARE developed a scale-up strategy for it in 2018 and recently reviewed it based on the lessons learned from the four years of its implementation. The strategy goal is to ensure that by 2030, 62 million people (of which 50 million women and girls) are economically and socially empowered through savings groups, thus reducing poverty and increasing gender equality. This scaling strategy set the ambition for how to reach the set target, not just through CARE’s program integration and layering, but rather by influencing 3rd party scalers to take up the approach in their programs, primarily government and agribusinesses, adapting the model in crisis settings (VSLAiE), and leveraging digital technology to drive efficiencies across all the work-streams. Although the strategy focuses on scale, it has become clear that it is critical for CARE to focus on both scale and impact. This is partly based on emerging evidence that participation in a VSLA not only increases members’ average incomes and household assets, but it also provides non-economic benefits such as increased voice, self-esteem and confidence among members, the majority of whom are women. Due to their effectiveness and versatility, VSLAs are increasingly being promoted as part of multi-component projects in combination with other interventions such as health services, food and nutrition security, local value chain development, climate justice, agricultural training, advocacy campaigns, gender and social norm dialogues, and access to formal financial services.
Over the next 7 years, CARE’s direct implementation of VSLAs contributes to 9 million of the overall target. Direct implementation through CARE is critical to VSLA scaling efforts as CARE’s programs are the test bed for innovating with and adapting the VSLA model to influence replication and scale through strategic partnerships. Integrating VSLA as the foundation of CARE programming in Food and Water Systems, Education, and Health Programs. This requires a senior leader to ensure VSLAs are consistently integrated across our portfolio and through multi-year programs that build on VSLAs as a platform for resilience and other services
As part of the dynamic VSLA team, the Deputy Director-VSLA Programs Integration will oversee the CARE Direct Sub-strategy of the Global VSLA. This will include supporting country office and regional scale-up strategy development; co-creating programs and project designs; contributing to and/or leading proposal and fundraising efforts; providing technical support to project start-up and implementation; and supporting CARE’s efforts to continually learn from and improve our initiatives. He will advocate for the transformative work and incremental impacts of our VSLA to both internal and external audiences and serve as a team’s point of contact for VSLA integration, layering, and sequencing. In addition, the position is expected to collaborate closely with other CARE USA departments (such as PPL and FWS) to ensure that the work aligns with the organization’s larger objectives and takes into consideration the humanitarian-development nexus as well as managing major initiatives as required. In a nutshell, the position affords its occupant unparallel opportunities to influence the work of CARE and deepen impact that specifically contributes to women’s financial autonomy and economic independence.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategy and Programme Quality for Greater VSLA Scale and Impact
Fundraising and Resource mobilization
Drive learning and program quality throughout program integration and layering of VSLA
Staff Management and Leadership
This responsibility requires excellent competency and skills in areas of team building, coordination, delegation with support and accountability, problem solving, and strategic decision-making. The incumbent is responsible for:
Alliances, Partnerships and Representation
QUALIFICATIONS:
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