Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, February 18 2024

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 12 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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About the Client
The Innovation Village is Uganda’s launchpad for leading innovators and entrepreneurs. We are building an entire ecosystem of entrepreneurs and innovators in what is growing to become a business solutions provider for our biggest challenges or opportunities. From helping entrepreneurs launch and grow high-impact ventures to attracting regional and global opportunities, our ecosystem approach converges multiple partners including public, private, academia, research, and civil society as one force for good.

ABOUT THE DIGITAL ECONOMY PROGRAM
In partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and Mastercard Inc, The Innovation Village is launching the Digital Economy Program to transform the digital economy in Uganda.
Digital transformation is rapidly re-shaping our global economy, permeating every sector and aspect of daily life – changing the way we learn, work, trade, socialize, and access public and private services and information. With this trend in technology, a new digital economy is emerging as a critical enabler for accelerating opportunities for young people, women, and small businesses. We strongly believe that the digital economy can play a significant role in boosting job creation in Uganda in the next decade by enabling growth, innovation, efficiency, and expansion of Uganda’s markets into new frontiers and creating the new future of work for young people.

As an organization, we have invested in building an ecosystem for innovators and entrepreneurs to launch and scale their ventures. To ensure they are at the forefront of the current global digital transformation we are deepening our work in the sector by ensuring we have the right team and resources to support entrepreneurs. Our work will involve ensuring Ugandan entrepreneurs and the ecosystem have access to digital infrastructure, tools, and technical support to enable effective participation in the digital economy to transform and drive growth in all sectors.

ABOUT THE NEXTWAVE PROGRAM
NextWave is a sustainable market-led intervention for addressing the key challenges entrepreneurs face. We work with key strategic partners from public, private, academia and development communities to offer a comprehensive ‘ecosystem’ approach to building Ventures (or Companies), which will, in turn, generate employment. The forecasted Goal of the program is 300,000 young people securing dignified and fulfilling work.

Job Summary
As Gender Specialist, you will be responsible for leading and implementing the gender equality initiatives under the PMO, and in support of Next Wave and Digital Doors programs.
Success in this role requires
• Understanding of gender-related issues and how they impact different groups of people especially amongst youth in rural communities.
• Technical expertise to develop frameworks, tools and all the necessary capabilities for staff and the organization to develop and adopt gender transformative and inclusive approaches to delivery of the digital doors and the next wave project

• The ability to Incorporate human rights-based approaches to implementing organizational policies, tools, procedures, and measures and ensure that these meet both global, regional, and national standards of gender responsive programing and best practices for safeguarding

Responsibilities
• Lead on the organization’s and staff gender and safeguarding needs assessment and design a comprehensive support plan for staff
• Lead efforts to conduct a gender analysis of the Digital Doors and Next Wave programs