Private Sector Engagement for Women’s Economic Empowerment Consultant

Manage the private-sector pillar of the Jordan chapter of the Surging Women’s Employment Flagship Initiative, expanding Women’s Empowerment Principles engagement and helping companies improve women’s employment, workplace equality and gender-responsive procurement.

• Lead implementation of the private-sector pillar under the Jordan chapter
• Develop workplans, roadmaps and monitoring frameworks aligned with the employment goal
• Build partnerships with companies, government counterparts and business associations
• Expand and reactivate Women’s Empowerment Principles signatories in priority sectors
• Design training and provide tailored advisory support to participating companies
• Support implementation of the National Gender Seal with KACE
• Coordinate Jordan activities with relevant regional private-sector initiatives
• Support preparation of the annual Arab States Private Sector Forum

• Master’s degree in economics, international collaboration, social sciences or a relevant field, or first-level university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience implementing, monitoring and reporting programmes related to gender and the private sector
• Experience engaging the private sector for women’s economic empowerment in Jordan
• Experience providing advisory support to the private sector on women’s economic empowerment
• Experience providing capacity building and coordinating with private-sector and civil-society stakeholders
• Fluency in English and Arabic

• Experience working with the United Nations

• Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Private-Sector Engagement
• Partnership Development
• Programme Management
• Training Design
• Advisory Services
• Monitoring And Reporting
• Analytical Writing
• Stakeholder Coordination

• Local consultancy open to nationals of Jordan