Women's Empowerment Manager at Trocaire

• This is a key role driving the strategic direction of Trócaire’s women’s and girls’ voice, leadership and protection programming and key responsibilities include:

Management, strategic leadership & coordination

• Lead, coordinate and support the application of appropriate frameworks to deliver a comprehensive and ambitious approach to supporting women’s and girls’ empowerment (liaising with programme advisors, country teams, partners, and the Humanitarian team).
• Together with the Head of Programmes & the Climate Justice Manager develop the vision/rationale for strategies and operations, including ways or working within the team & ways of supporting country portfolios to maximise the learning and opportunities for funding and innovation.
• Provide coordination, in conjunction with the Head of Programmes & programme advisors, to ensure strategic consistent technical support to country offices and liaise with humanitarian team to support streamlined and efficient support to countries.
• Provide strategic leadership, guidance and coordination in the application of learning methods and spaces on key priority areas identified to drive the women’s empowerment agenda and work forward within Trócaire.
• Ensure the effective planning, management, identification and utilisation of operational resources, ensuring that women’s empowerment programmes are well resourced and managed, meet minimum quality standards and are delivered in a timely and accountable manner.
• Providing strategic leadership and coordination support to the climate change and gender portfolio countries (CCAG), by jointly managing with the Climate Justice Manager quarterly meetings with CCAG programme teams & technical advisors, and in partnership with others, developing and promoting a learning agenda related to integrating work streams (climate & gender).
• Ensure senior-level decision makers are provided with strategic and relevant information and knowledge to facilitate timely and accountable decision-making in relation to strategic and programme directions.
• Provide backstopping and/or deputise for the Head of Programmes when required.

Operational Management & high-quality technical support

• Guide the design, development and implementation of high-quality country programmes based on a sound technical knowledge, application of outcome frameworks and a thorough understanding of best practice in this area.
• Guide and support donor proposal development and assist in the identification of opportunities for donor funding for women’s empowerment and setting of targets.
• Support learning and skills building among global teams and partner staff, through the provision of tailored training and learning interventions and through ongoing close support and accompaniment.
• Promote adaptable, flexible and contextual leadership and guidance - ensuring that strategies and support are evolved, are continually informed by needs and realities on the ground.
• Coordination and Management of Women’s Empowerment across programme countries
• Working in collaboration with the target country teams and global technical advisors, oversee the establishment and implementation of a learning programme to continuously, and collectively, test assumptions regarding our pathways
• and generate new knowledge and skills with regard to project activities and approaches, and ensure this learning is implemented by adapting programming in a timely and responsive manner.
• Develop strong coordination structures and ensure effective communication and collaboration across advisers and across the target countries, including through face-to-face workshops, regular online meetings with country focal points, HQ advisors and periodic project learning reviews, etc.

Managing an effective and well-integrated team

• Effectively lead and coordinate a team of at least 3 professionals, to ensure quality technical support to country programmes, development and roll out of guidance and tools, establishment and facilitation of shared learning platforms, participation in research and innovation, engagement with external networks & supporting processes that assure the growth and quality of women’s empowerment programmes (related to institutional funding, learning, etc).
• Support and provide individual line management to the Programme Advisors, to enable them to reach their potential in the areas mentioned above.
• Develop and promote a culture of high performance and mutual support in the broader team.
• Foster a collaborative approach with other team members and teams in Trócaire to deliver organisational goals on women’s voice, leadership and protection, in particular the humanitarian and localisation and partnership teams.

Strategic Relationships and Representation

• Identify and explore opportunities to represent Trócaire’s women’s empowerment work in international networks and spaces.
• Represent Trócaire’s work on women’s empowerment at networks and in relevant internal and external forums including conferences to ensure that learning is shared and the work of Trócaire and partners is profiled and informs sectoral thinking.
• Support the identification and the development of strategic relationships with key donors including Irish Aid, EU,
• USAID, etc and ensure Trocaire is strategically positioned to avail of funding opportunities.
• Any other relevant tasks as identified by management, in line with the scope and focus of the role.
• Management Competencies in Line with Trócaire’s Management Framework
• Trócaire managers are expected to foster positive employee relations by managing people in an open, fair, and consistent manner. All individuals must be treated with respect and dignity and work in an environment that supports and enables them to be the best that they can be. Trócaire sets out the following standards to ensure effective management of people in line with our values to support this:
• Relationships: All individuals will be managed in a positive environment, with empathy for managing emotions and taking a proactive approach in relation to managing any interpersonal conflicts guided by appropriate organisation policies and procedures when relevant.
• Employee Well-being: All team members will be managed with consideration for their personal well-being recognising the demands of competing priorities, heavy workloads and pressurised, often insecure environments that we work in.
• It is important to be mindful of our duty of care towards our employees and always prioritise their health, safety and well-being.
• Trócaire Policies: Managers must understand and implement all Trócaire organisation policies in a consistent and objective manner with all individuals they are responsible for.
• Performance Management: Managers are expected to enable and support employees to give their best by being clear with expectations, coaching, supporting and mentoring them, recognising achievement and ensuring regular honest feedback to support a high performance culture.
• Supporting Development: Manage and develop employees recognising talent and good performance, delegating appropriately to ensure team members are provided with opportunity to work in an environment where they are empowered to make decisions based on their responsibilities and ability.
• Recruitment & Selection: Managers will demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism, integrity, judgement and consistency in identifying and securing talent required for the future success of the organisation.
• Manage Change: To actively contribute and own management decisions, drive change and bring people along by communicating changes effectively with team members in a timely and appropriate manner allowing for consultation when appropriate.
• Decision-making: Managers are expected to make decisions in a timely manner in line with strategic priorities with consideration for the resources required and our value of stewardship, always considering the good of the organisation. When possible and appropriate to maximise opportunities for new innovations and efficiency improvements.

Essential Requirements
Experience

• Strong leadership skills and demonstrated leadership of development processes.
• At least 8 years’ experience of working in the area of gender equality, women’s empowerment, women’s leadership and/or gender-based violence, including in programme/project delivery in an international development context in Africa, Asia or Central America.
• Extensive knowledge and expertise on women’s participation in decision-making, leadership, GBV programming, social norms change, and application of gender transformative approaches.
• Knowledge of the sector, including main stakeholders, particularly donors.
• Proven capacity and experience in the use of programmatic approaches - design, monitoring systems, implementation.
• Excellent analytical and written skills and demonstrable record of writing strategic and technical documents.
• Expertise and experience in facilitating learning and reflection and creating a culture of self-reflection, learning and growth.
• Experience in the application of learning, monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches.
• Experience of supporting research and learning in programmes.
• Qualifications: A post-graduate qualification in a relevant related field

Qualities

• A demonstrated commitment to feminist values and to feminist and participatory approaches to programming.
• A demonstrated interest in and commitment to social justice.
• The ability to build relationships across the organisation and motivate and lead others.
• An ability to be flexible and adaptable to a changing environment.
• Ability to work on one’s own initiative and operate as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Others

• Empathy with the ethos of Trócaire as a Catholic organisation.
• Ability and willingness to travel on a regular basis.
• Knowledge of French or Spanish is desirable.
• Experience in managing teams