Le Fonds international de développement agricole cherche à embaucher un Spécialiste en genre et inclusion sociale en Côte d’Ivoire.

Applicants for vacancies in the National Professional Officer (NPO) category must be nationals of the country in which the position is located (Cote d’Ivoire). IFAD is committed to achieving gender diversity. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.

The Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD) provides expert guidance on IFAD’s strategic direction, thematic priorities, and technical quality of IFAD’s operations. It plays a critical role in providing technical expertise to operational teams to enhance development effectiveness, by generating and disseminating IFAD’s development knowledge and evidence on strategic themes and encouraging innovative application of cutting-edge global knowledge and evidence in IFAD investments to support countries tackle their most complex development challenges in fostering inclusive and sustainable rural transformation. SKD is composed of the (i) Environment, Climate, Gender and Social Inclusion Division (ECG); the (ii) Sustainable Production, Markets, and Institutions Division (PMI); and the (iii) Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA).

ECG takes the lead in mainstreaming cross-cutting themes of environmental sustainability and climate change resilience, nutrition-sensitivity, gender equality and women’s empowerment and inclusion of rural youth and indigenous peoples through an integrated approach. The Division is the technical authority for each of these themes and:

(i) leverages global best practices to develop, update and implement the strategies, policies, procedures and products related to the aforementioned themes to ensure IFAD remains a trusted and valued partner;

(ii) collaborates with Regional Divisions in the development of technically sound programmes and operations to safeguard and to strengthen the quality of IFAD’s operations to improve impacts;

(iii) generates and disseminates IFAD evidence-based practices and knowledge on the mainstreaming themes, raises awareness and builds technical capacity, and supports national, regional and global policy engagement;

(iv) identifies and builds partnerships with key technical institutions of excellence, develops and maintains key thematic networks to assist IFAD operations;

(v) conducts thematic research and prepares reports on these mainstreaming themes for corporate use or positions papers;

(vi) leads mobilizing financing to support mainstreaming efforts and to scale-up operations.

ECG takes the lead in supporting the implementation of IFAD’s Gender Policy as well as mainstreaming crosscutting themes of environment and climate, nutrition, gender, youth, and indigenous peoples into IFAD’s portfolio, as well as implementing relevant policies in these areas, to strengthen the quality of IFAD’s operations and achieve improved impacts. ECG supports integration of the four corporate priorities of gender, nutrition, climate, and youth to demonstrate how they add value to each other and to the whole portfolio for more transformational outcomes. ECG contributes to the generation of evidence and knowledge on these cross-cutting themes and facilitates their use in IFAD projects and activities. In addition, ECG provides guidance and support to ensure the inclusion of groups with special needs and opportunities, particularly women, indigenous peoples, and rural youth as well as others into IFAD operations.

The Social Inclusion Analyst/Specialist works under the overall strategic, policy and management guidance of the Division Director and the Regional Director of the Regional Division to which s/he is mapped. S/he works under the direct supervision of the Lead Technical Specialist (Social Inclusion Cluster Coordinator), with dual reporting to the respective Country Director/Head of the IFAD Multi Country Offices.

The Social Inclusion Analyst/Specialist may be required to travel outside of their own country to perform the work of the Organization.