KEY INFORMATION 
Job Title: Gender and Social Inclusion Manager (GSIM) 
Sector: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion 
Position Type (full/part time): Full time 
Duration/Level of Effort (long/short term): Long term 
Position Location (e.g. city, country, remote): Lesotho, Maseru 
 
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT 
The BETA Project is one of four MCA-Lesotho II Projects that comprise the second Compact. Its ultimate goal is to stimulate an increase in firm level profiles and employment from a pipeline of 50 mature stage businesses and 500 MSMEs supported by the Project with focus on those owned by women, youth and other socially underprivileged groups, and MSMEs in rural areas, and priority given to those working in the Horticulture sector.  
This will be achieved through three interrelated Activities and Sub-activities, and a supporting Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component. Each Activity under the BETA has specific objectives that align with other Activities as per below:  

1. Pipeline Development (PD): objective is to improve the profitability of identified existing or new high potential enterprises, support their growth towards business maturation through direct Technical Assistance (TA) and Business Development Services (BDS) and targeted grant-making, with a focus on women and youth owned enterprises.  
2. Business Ecosystem Strengthening (BES): objective is to increase private sector participation in public sector decisions to improve delivery of public goods and services by supporting the establishment of a Public Private Dialogue (PPD) mechanism and strengthening standards and Quality Assurance (QA) mechanisms.  
3. Financial Ecosystem Strengthening (FES): objective is to increase financing options for enterprises, prioritizing MDIH farmers but also including other sectors through structuring financial products and building the capacity of related actors to nurture growth, development and facilitate innovation in the sector.  
4. Learning Agenda and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tasks: monitors for effective delivery, improvement and evidence-based decision making; informs programmatic improvements; creating a feedback loop from BETA businesses to enable scaling out successful programmatic elements and revisiting less effective ones. 

• Conduct a Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) focused on diverse project beneficiaries and intersectionality in targeted areas, and which delineates barriers to equality that need to be addressed through targeted strategies and tools and resources fit for purpose. 
• Develop a global Gender Equality Strategy for the project 
• Design a Pipeline Development Activity Gender and Inclusion Action Plan (GAP-PD) to identify and create strategies to address constraints specifically among businesses owned by women, youth and other disadvantaged groups.  
• Contribute to the institutional Strengthening of the Public Private Dialogue (PPD) Secretariat, specifically the Gender, and Social Inclusion (GSI) technical working group (TWG) by overseeing and supporting the GSI TWG in their efforts for gender mainstreaming and gender capacity building efforts. 
• Design a Business Ecosystem Activity GAP (GAP-BE) to serve as a guide to support GSI tasks under this Activity 
• Support the development of gender smart financial products for MSMEs 
• Develop a Financial Ecosystem Strengthening Gender and Inclusion Plan (GAP-FE), to serve as a guide to support GSI tasks under this Activity 
• Participate in the development of the MEL framework and plan that aligns with the Project’s Logic Model (LM) and Theory of Change (TOC) by ensuring the integration GSI principles into the framework. 
• Ensure outputs explicitly include reference to at-risk groups. Include explicit sex-and-age-disaggregation of all targets to adequately capture Gender Equality concerns.  
• Integrate Gender Equality and Social Inclusion into broader BETA activities  
• Contribute to the design of the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan in terms of key performance indicators to measure progress and impact of gender and youth inclusion; 
• Ensure proper collection of data and key performance indicators on gender and youth inclusion to measure progress and impact  
• Contribute to quarterly report preparation for each activity and other activities as needed.  

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, business, economics, development studies, gender studies or other related field.  
• 10 years’ experience in integrating gender in MSME business and finance support programs in low-income countries.  
• 5 years’ experience working on gender in government policy aimed at increasing women’s involvement in business.  
• 5 years of experience in addressing the needs of other disadvantaged populations 

• 5 years of experience in capacity building for women entrepreneurs, through efforts such as business development and training, incubators, accelerators, and mentoring programs.  
• 5 years of experience working on gender and inclusion, on designing programs to address socioeconomic differentiation 

• Knowledge of methodologies and best practices for promoting gender equality, inclusion, equity and women empowerment.  
• Deep understanding of the intersection between gender and business development.  
• Good partnership and outreach skills, building alliances and networks, and maintaining good relations with partners and stakeholders.  
• Good facilitation and training skills.  
• Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills, focuses on impact and results and responds positively to feedback.  
• Strong communication and reporting skills in English  
• Strong computer skills including MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Teams, Outlook).