Technical Advisor, Women's Economic Empowerment, PSEMC

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About the Project

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Hub works to transform and modernize how USAID does development by institutionalizing USAID’s PSE policy of deploying market solutions that address development and humanitarian challenges more sustainably and at scale. The PSE Hub works to facilitate the collaboration of the public and private sectors to spur greater development impact by leveraging each actor’s unique resources, assets, and skill sets. Across all sectors, the PSE Hub works in partnership with a range of private sector partners to create a more secure and prosperous future for all.

USAID works to improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the distinct and intersectional needs of women and girls, men and boys in our development and humanitarian work, as well as  barriers that hinder optimal outcomes. Identifying and addressing restrictive inequalities helps to foster the sustainability of results.

USAID believes that when we increase incomes and opportunities for women, entire communities, economies, and countries benefit. Investing in the economic empowerment of women builds resilient countries - because an investment in a woman is an investment in her community and her country.

USAID has a long standing commitment to economic growth and gender equality through thoughtful and innovative programming. For instance, the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub has invested in nearly 100 economic growth and gender equality activities, in more than 60 countries, partnering with over 1000 private sector, non-profit and local organizations, as well as host country governments, to advance women’s economic empowerment globally. 

About the Position

Dexis is seeking a Technical Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment to work across a broad range of functions to support the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub’s (GenDev’s) Partnerships and Economic Growth Team, which focuses on a range of interventions to strategically increase women’s economic empowerment in Agency programming, including in partnership with the private sector. 

The Advisor will help to advance USAID’s implementation of its Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, as well as other relevant policies such as the PSE Policy and Economic Growth and Trade Policy. This includes supporting the institutionalization of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and increasing PSE, including with non-traditional partners, throughout the Gender Equity and Equality Action (GEEA) Fund, GenDev portfolio, and Agency broadly. 

The Advisor’s primary portfolio focus would be on influencing key stakeholders around the Agency, including in USAID Washington and Missions, in ways that directly increase women’s empowerment and gender equality impacts throughout USAID programming. This includes influencing the behavior of the private sector to increase economic growth through greater gender equality, and catalyzing private sector resources to support gender equality and women’s economic empowerment across the majority of GenDev’s technical sectors, such as economic growth, land, energy, and others. This position would serve as a key liaison between the GenDev Hub and economic growth stakeholders and will sit in the Partnerships and Economic Growth team, reporting to the GenDev Partnerships and Economic Growth Team Lead and Senior Advisor.  

A competitive candidate for this position will have significant background and expertise in the technical subject matter and, while not required, experience with USAID programming.

The position will be based in Washington, D.C. working in USAID’s headquarters office.

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