Impact Manager – Gender & Diversity at Bopinc

Job Description

The role 

In your role as Impact Manager – Gender & Diversity, 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 Product Design, Behavioural Science, Business, Marketing, Gender Studies 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 African 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