Reliance Foundation
Organization profile
Over the years, Reliance Foundations initiatives have continued to evolve, while remaining responsive to the ever-changing needs of society. The Foundation is currently focusing on creating change in areas of Rural Transformation, Health, and Education, Sports for Development, Disaster Response, Arts, Culture & Heritage and Urban Renewal.
Job Purpose
H/She will be responsible to develop Women Empowerment initiatives for Reliance Foundation.
Roles & Responsibility and Outcomes (KPI)
Roles & ResponsibilityOutcomes (KPIs)
- Responsible for identifying and designing a portfolio of new programs to support women empowerment, including initiatives supporting womens economic empowerment, enhancing skilling and livelihood opportunities, addressing the gender digital divide, as well as building leadership capacity for women and girls.
- Developing the implementation and operational strategies for new initiatives, through both direct implementation programs and/or partnerships, as appropriate.
- Identifying and establishing new partnerships, as required, in collaboration with RF program leaders.
- Lead management, implementation, launch and delivery of new initiatives (including budget, staffing and the activities); strategically organizing the work of the project personnel; overseeing and managing deliverables to deadlines, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Work in collaboration with RF program leaders to provide cross-cutting technical advice and support to embed focused efforts to empower women and girls through all current RF initiatives.
- Work in collaboration with M&E, communications and research teams to share best practice, key learnings, impact and insights from RF initiatives on women empowerment.
Key Stakeholders/ Collaborators
Educational Qualifications
Experience & Educational Requirements
Other Requirements
Scope of Work
- People Management Scope (Range of no. of Direct Reports):
- Geography Coverage (Country-wide/ Region-wide / Location-wide / Other)
- Post Graduate Degree in any of the fields related to the development sector.
- Minimum 15 years of social sector experience, especially technical expertise related to women empowerment programs.
- Experience of implementing large scale development projects.
- Thorough knowledge of the social sector and specialist expertise in one or more areas.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- S/he should be experienced in commissioning projects from third parties to meet agreed objectives.
- Good educational background.
- Self-starter who takes ownership and responsibility for his/her projects.
- Team player with leadership skills.
- Capable to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Good communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills in an international environment.
- Independent, confident and customer-focused mind-set.
- Ability to control processes and activities in a result-oriented manner and work effectively to tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills in English (verbally and in writing).
- Corporate Coverage / Business or Function-wide / BU or Sub-function-wide / Other):
(Company-wide)
- RT-IT
Desired Skills and Experience
Gender Equality Advocacy, Leadership Development, Community Engagement, Policy Analysis, Project Management, Public Speaking, Research Skills, Strategic Planning
