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About the job

About The Team

GSMA Mobile for Development (M4D) is a dedicated global team within the GSMA, which brings together our mobile operator members, tech innovators, the development community and governments, to realise the impact of mobile in low- and middle-income countries: https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/

The M4D team has been closely with the mobile industry, policymakers and other partners to drive efforts to accelerate digital and financial inclusion for women across LMICs through the GSMA Connected Women programme. It also provides critical data and insights on the issue and opportunities to address it including publishing the annual Mobile Gender Gap Report. Since 2016 more than 40 mobile operators have made formal Connected Women Commitments to reduce the gender gap in the mobile internet and/or mobile money services customer base successfully reaching over 65 million additional women.

The Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF) is a five-year $60 million initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). WiDEF will directly support the scale up of evidence-based solutions to effectively close the gender digital divide. Employing a strong localization approach, WiDEF will create opportunities for organizations and businesses at the forefront of equitable digital inclusion to receive financial, technical and operational support to advance their work. Working as part of a core consortium, the program will collaborate with industry leading organizations to effectively engage local and global private sector actors and funders to advance a shared set of commitments to closing the gender digital divide. Beyond direct delivery, the initiative will incorporate a substantial policy and advocacy component as well as global communications efforts in order to inform and influence action at every level of the development system.

إقرأ أيضا:مطلوب محاسبة لدى شركة اجنبية في الخبر

What The Hiring Manager Says

“This role is an exciting opportunity to support the private sector and others to advance women’s digital inclusion and help close the gender digital divide in a way that is both commercially sustainable and socially impactful. Working across Africa, this role is a great opportunity for someone with a strong commercial background who is also interested in international development, digital inclusion for the underserved and driving digital for women.” Claire Sibthorpe – Head of Digital Inclusion, M4D

About The Role

You will work as part of the WiDEF teams to support the scale up of evidence-based solutions to effectively close the gender digital divide in Africa.

Key Roles And Responsibilities Include The Following

 

• Supporting the management and implementation of rounds to support for potential partners interested in driving equitable digital inclusion.
• Supporting a portfolio of partners across Africa interested in driving digital inclusion for women and addressing the gender digital divide. This will include managing and delivering technical assistance and advisory support to organisations being supported by the programme to help drive impactful in-country actions. This includes:
  • Ensuring effective contracting and management of packages of technical assistance and provisioning strategic advisory support.
  • Providing thought leadership, analysing market opportunities, inputting to the design and delivery of propositions, creating and delivering strategy workshops for partners, and tracking both commercial and social outcomes.
• Generating and sharing key insights which drive increased awareness and action among stakeholders as well as supporting knowledge exchange between partners. This includes documenting insights and learnings and sharing your findings with the industry ecosystem through presentations, case studies, toolkits, blogs, events and meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Engaging and managing relevant stakeholders in Africa, helping to drive action.

About You

إقرأ أيضا:مطلوب مدير الحساب لشركة أمازون بالرياض

We welcome applications from professionals with the following demonstrated qualifications:

• Very strong commercial experience is a must have. This may be gained through working as a management consultant or within corporate strategy, business planning or marketing functions, ideally within (or for) private sector in the digital sector.
• Strategic and analytical capabilities in understanding and assessing new business models, including experience identifying commercial opportunities and their potential impact when successfully scaled.
• Familiarity with reaching underserved populations, including women, in low- and middle-income countries is a must have. Ideally this would be through experience in digital and/or working with in emerging markets
• Strong and compelling written and oral communication skills in the English language are essential, with the ability to express complex or commercial issues articulately, concisely and persuasively.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building and public speaking skills, in order to develop constructive relationships with diverse stakeholders with an emphasis on mobile network operators. Ideally candidates would have solid experience of C-suite level interactions.
• Experience working with a team across cultures and globally dispersed.
• Strong project management skills, ability to work independently, self-motivated, entrepreneurial and organised to deliver high impact outputs. Conscientious and creative with a can-do attitude.
• Existing authorisation to work in Kenya
• This is a Fixed Term Contract until March 2028

Contract type

إقرأ أيضا:اعلان تعيين اعضاء هيئة تدريسية صادر عن جامعة الاسراء

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Worker type

Employee

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.