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- Job posted on: 18th May 2022
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IWDA is an Australian-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations, primarily in Asia and the Pacific, and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.
VISION: Gender equality for all
PURPOSE: To defend and advance the rights of diverse women and girls
VALUES: Feminist, Accountable, Collaborative, Transformative
OUR GOALS 2020-2023:
IWDA works in partnership with gender equality focused organisations in Asia and the Pacific; with international women’s movement coalitions; and with government and academic institutions in Australia to address the practical and structural barriers to gender equality. IWDA’s partnership work seeks to achieve transformational systemic change in order to realise our vision of gender equality for all.
As part of this contribution, we take actions to decolonise our approach to feminism and development. We want to become the best we can be in the world at north-south partnerships. This means we seek to understand and leverage our locational power so that we know when to:
STEP UP: and use our power to leverage resources and access for women’s rights organisations, and make our own contribution to feminist movements
STAND WITH: feminist movements in solidarity and amplify the work of global south actors
STEP BACK: when others are better placed to take the lead.
Equality Insights is a flagship program of IWDA that aims to redefine how poverty is understood and measured and inspire wider change, in measurement standards and approaches and in gender equality outcomes. Built on more than 14 years’ of research and refinement, Equality Insights provides a conceptual framework, methodology and associated survey to enable individual-level, gender-sensitive measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality. The survey asks concrete questions about 15 dimensions of life plus assets to better understand how poverty is experienced by individuals. The result is an evidence base of (otherwise invisible) insights to inspire and enable targeted and transformative change.
In 2021, IWDA commenced a program of work, supported by the Australian Government, to improve the gender equality outcomes of COVID-19 recovery in the Pacific through increasing the availability of data that makes the specific circumstances of women visible, and supporting that data to be used for gender-responsive planning, programming, advocacy and resource allocations. In the first year, the focus of the program was the development of a new Equality Insights survey variant Equality Insights Rapid, that is brief and can be implemented without face-to-face enumeration.
The current program, which concludes at the end of December 2022, is organised around four action areas:
The successful candidate in this recruitment will join the program at a time when data collection in two countries—Solomon Islands and Tonga—are nearing completion. Though the role has cyclical elements across the data value chain (from data production to uptake, use and impact) the first six months of the role will be focused on data processing, publication, dissemination and uptake.
ACTION AREA 1: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Survey and Insights Manager will:
This role will also proactively identify and contribute to opportunities to improve global recognition of the contribution of Equality Insights Rapid to gender-sensitive measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality, through general public communications and submissions to peer-reviewed journals.
In different phases of the project cycle (ie beyond the next six months) the Survey and Insights Manager will play a lead role in data collection set up and implementation.
ACTION AREA 2: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Survey and Insights Manager will:
ACTION AREA 3: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Data Use Manager will provide input to support the development of specific capacity building modules at the request of the Special Advisor. This may include identifying priority interests and needs of in-country stakeholders and creating specific analysis and insights that will support training on data use.
ACTION AREA 4: between commencement and the end of 2022, and where capacity allows, the role-holder will contribute technically to meetings, webinars and other engagements with regional and multilateral organisations including the Pacific Community and relevant UN agencies, governments and civil society organisations.
Permanent full-time role. Classified at SCHADS 6 plus superannuation and salary packaging.
A position description is attached.
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has an Equal Opportunity exemption (H69/2022) and requests applications from people who identify as women only.
IWDA welcomes people with different skills and life experiences, and encourages women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disabilities and First Nations women to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have experience in, or strong community ties to, one of the countries in which IWDA supports partners.
Any offer of employment will require a National Police Check and endorsement of IWDA’s Child Protection Code of Conduct. All applicants must be legally entitled to live and work in Australia.
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