Women's Economic Empowerment Manager – Regional Livestock Programme

About the role

Mercy Corps is looking for a Women's Economic Empowerment Manager for its Regional Livestock Programme (RLP), based in Nairobi (Westlands). The role leads the design and implementation of gender and women's economic empowerment strategies within large development programmes, integrating gender and youth into livestock market systems and economic development programming.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, Rural Development, Agricultural Economics, Livestock sector or a related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including 5 years in a senior GESI/Women's Economic Empowerment leadership role.
• Proven experience designing and implementing GESI and WEE strategies, with success integrating gender and youth into livestock market systems.
• Experience working with the private sector to identify, test and scale business models and market-based solutions that address barriers to women's and youth's economic participation.
• Experience managing staff and budgets on matrix teams, and building the capacity of programme teams, partners and government institutions to use gender-transformative approaches.
• Technical leadership in designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and learning from GESI/WEE interventions, preferably in an international NGO or donor-funded programme.
• Experience implementing women's economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, youth employment and livelihoods programmes, preferably in pastoralist and agro-pastoralist contexts; experience in the Horn of Africa is highly desirable.
• Experience working with major donors such as SDC, Sida, AFD and the World Bank, including compliance, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to field locations (30-50%).

Required skills

• Market Systems Development (MSD), livestock value chains and private sector development (highly preferred).
• Strong analytical skills: collecting, analysing and using qualitative and quantitative data to inform strategy, learning, advocacy and decisions.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, networking and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Organizational, problem-solving and adaptive management skills, able to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Cultural sensitivity and diplomacy in multicultural, multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent written and verbal English.