Gender & Diversity Impact Manager

Are you passionate about working with the private sector to design products, services and business models that benefit low-income women? Do you enjoy working with a variety of stakeholders from business leaders to rural micro-entrepreneurs to drive change?

Full-time · Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Abuja or Utrecht

The role

In your role as Gender & Diversity Impact Manager, you will provide advisory to organizations, ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) to multinationals, social enterprises and NGO’s so they can enhance their social impact on women through their business models. These can be early-stage or growth-stage companies, who are developing products, services or marketing & distribution strategies targeted at low-income women in Africa and Asia.

Examples of organizations you may advise:

Digital platform that supports smallholder farmers and is looking to increase their reach to low-income women.

Child-care provider who wants to include low-income women both as care workers and care customers in its business operations

Non-profit accelerator programme looking to design better agribusiness support programmes for women entrepreneurs

Qualifications

Bachelor or (preferably) Masters degree in Gender Studies, Product Design, Behavioural Science, Business, Marketing, or a related field.

Minimum of 5 years professional experience advising companies on inclusive business strategies and business cases, with a focus on improving the inclusion of women.

Knowledge and first-hand experience in leading and/or implementing women-centered design approaches, including carrying out research, co-creation, prototyping, piloting and reporting in a gender-responsive manner.

Experience making acceleration or innovation programs more gender-inclusive

Knowledge and first-hand experience with the challenges and opportunities of including low-income women in business models in Africa or Asia.

Empathy with the BoP as value seeking consumers and motivated entrepreneurs (not as beneficiaries) and a strong curiosity to better understand the gendered realities within low-income markets.

Ability to work, lead workshops and conduct training sessions with diverse stakeholders; leaders of multinationals, entrepreneurs, rural micro-entrepreneurs, government, development players.

Affinity with the purpose of Bopinc.

Fluent in English.

Valid work permit in the respective country.

Core capabilities

You deeply understand gender and intersectionality in different geographical contexts and know how to adapt your messaging and gender strategies to different stakeholders

You are able to develop and implement business strategies that benefit women and marginalized people, you think long term and externally in order to contribute to the organization of the client

You are a proactive self-starter with a high level of independence. You take responsibility for your own time and effectiveness

You actively listen and proactively share knowledge

You are able to express complex data, ideas and facts in a clear, concise and open manner, both in oral and in written form

You are aware of the impact of decisions and activities on all parts of the organization

We offer

A motivated, multidisciplinary and culturally diverse team of professionals

Culture of dedication to delivery whilst also ensuring creativity and innovativeness

Market-based remuneration and conditions

An extra 8% monthly holiday scheme allowance (gross) paid in December of every year

Health insurance coverage annually for yourself; In case you have a partner and children, an extra monthly allowance for health care insurance of 5% of your gross monthly salary is provided

Participation in a collective pension scheme (partly paid by employer) and partly paid by yourself according to local tax law standards

20 full paid leave days in a year

National public holidays according to national policies

A yearly budget equivalent to 750 euro to invest in personal/professional development

Commuting allowance

Travel based upon project needs

Bopinc is a Dutch not-for-profit that accelerates the impact of market-driven and innovative business models in low-income markets. We support our clients in making their businesses more inclusive and viable by including people at the Base of the Pyramid as consumers, producers and entrepreneurs in the supply chain.

Bopinc works with a wide variety of start-ups, SMEs and multinational companies to achieve this. Over the past ten years we have worked with more than 1,000 companies, reaching more than 5 million low-income consumers, while creating better income opportunities for over 110,000 low-income entrepreneurs.

Gender & Diversity Impact Manager

The role

Qualifications

Core capabilities

We offer

JOB LOCATION: Nairobi, Kenya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Abuja, Nigeria or Utrecht, the Netherlands

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Deadline: 13 December 2024