Lead - Gender Centre of Excellence
Phillips Consulting, Nigeria
Job Description
Our client is a leading organisation that promotes inclusive finance in Nigeria, situated at Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. It is also well-known in Nigeria’s financial sector for providing thought leadership in financial inclusion and championing the unbanked. Through funding and catalysing innovation, providing cutting-edge research, advocating for inclusive policies, and building capacity, it has built a reputation as an ‘honest broker’ amongst the private and public sectors.
It seeks to recruit a Gender Centre of Excellence Lead that supports the Nigerian financial inclusion ecosystem to design, implement, and sustain gender-responsive policies, products, and services that serve the needs of the unbanked or underbanked populations, particularly low-income women.
Job Objectives
- Drive increased access to and use of affordable, relevant formal financial services by women, through effective implementation of the Framework for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria and increased deployment of relevant solutions to women.
- Re-establish the Centre of Excellence for gender-related work in Nigeria i.e., an adequately resourced and networked team, led by a gender expert, that will provide support to stakeholders in the DFS ecosystem looking to mainstream gender into policies, regulations, research etc. and develop gender intentional products and services.
Primary Relationships
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Directly supervises: Gender Manager
Requirements
Job Responsibilities
Strategy Development and Implementation
- Develop and implement the firm’s approach to driving increased access to and use of affordable, relevant formal financial services by women, through effective implementation of the Framework for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria and increased deployment of relevant solutions to women.
- Participate in strategy and business plan development for the firm, contributing insights and expertise in women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment.
- Serve as the main point of contact for the firm’s gender-oriented activities and programmes, and provide gender-related technical expertise to support all our client’s work.
- Serve as the primary point of contact in the company for the FSD Network’s Advancing Gender Inclusive Finance in Africa initiative.
- Track emerging global evidence related to women’s financial inclusion and incorporate it into the firm’s strategic approach.
- Disseminate learning from gender-related work conducted in Nigeria to various partners, including government and private sector stakeholders in Nigeria, the FSD Network, our client’s donors, and other partners.
- Conduct stakeholder analysis to identify suitable implementing partners for gender equity interventions and initiate as well as build relevant relationships.
- Participate in the company’s Management Committee, which includes the responsibility to deliberate and take decisions on the effective and efficient management of the performance of operational and strategic matters within the company.
- Contribute to communication about the firm’s gender-intentional activities (e.g., developing content for written materials/website, participating in campaigns, etc).
- Represent the company in public forums and networking opportunities at all times, behaving in a manner consistent with our brand and values.
Regulatory Support amp; Stakeholder Engagement
- Support regulators/government stakeholders in creating or strengthening implementation plans and Mamp;E systems for the Women’s Financial Inclusion Framework and tracking progress towards its implementation.
- Coordinate with stakeholders in supporting the effective implementation of the Women’s Financial Inclusion Framework, engaging stakeholders to identify and address challenges to implementation when encountered.
- Work with the Financial Inclusion Delivery Unit of the Central Bank of Nigeria and other regulators to fine-tune the Women’s Financial Inclusion Framework as needed.
- Lead the firm’s participation in the National Financial Inclusion Special Interventions Working Group (the focus of which includes youth, women, and persons living with disabilities).
- Monitor the development of potential new policies/regulations, initiatives or entities that are relevant to women’s financial inclusion in Nigeria (including policies/regulations that are not gender-specific but may have a positive or negative impact on women’s financial inclusion), supporting the firm in making appropriate recommendations to stakeholders.
- Provide actionable inputs for making Nigeria's regulatory environment conducive to expanding digital financial services (DFS) into rural/remote areas and promote solutions that are key