Project
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
Project Manager and Gender Specialist / Team Leader
Position
Project Manager and Gender Specialist/Team Leader
Project description
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
- Output 1: Climate-resilient infrastructure assets for women and youth upgraded and expanded.
- Output 2: Women’s and youth’s skills for livelihood improvement enhanced.
- Output 3: Capacity of government and civil society organizations to implement women’s and youth empowerment activities strengthened.
Job description
For the Team Leader position, key tasks include but are not limited to the following:
- establish concrete work plans, implementation schedules, and deliverables for each specialist, and ensure their inputs result in expected outputs in a timely manner to support IA;
- supervise the work of all PIMS team members and contracted organizations, companies, and individuals funded by the project;
- lead and coordinate project activities resulting in effective and timely delivery of required project activities to the highest quality;
- provide technical guidance in gender and youth development, particularly as a gender specialist, to all project activities and to MOCIA, when requested;
- prepare monthly financial reports of outputs of PIMS and lead the preparation of quarterly project progress reports with inputs from relevant consultants and stakeholders;
- provide oversight to all project activities, ensuring compliance with grant covenant, PAM, including the government and ADB applicable policies and guidelines to the project;
- oversee risk management of the project;
- lead in the establishment and operations of the women’s center;
- develop operation and maintenance plans for project facilities, including cost-recovery mechanisms, such as renting out the training spaces for private events;
- lead in the design and implementation of gender and youth events;
- lead in the preparation and implementation of the annual training plans;
- support MOCIA to reestablish youth and women councils;
- help to train government staff from other ministries in gender equality and women’s empowerment programming;
- lead in implementing mitigation actions related to integrity and anti-corruption risks;
- provide capacity support to the Gender in Development Division and Youth Bureau in MOCIA;
- coordinate across other agencies and relevant institutions and development partners to ensure that all project activities are undertaken in close coordination with other relevant programs in the country;
- advise the project on national policy relevant to the project;
- prepare the mid-term review, measuring progress of the project against the DMF, identifying unexpected results and their impacts and lessons learned to inform the remaining implementation;
- prepare the completion report; and
- assist in all activities related to governance of the project.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in international development, gender, project management, or related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in project management.
- Proven record in successfully managing gender equality programs, preferably in multilateral-financed programs, with sound financial management, effective personnel, and stakeholder management experience.
- Previous experience in women and youth skills development and empowerment projects.
- Experience with ADB-financed or development-funded projects will be highly
desired. - Experience in the Pacific region preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience as Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader.
- Experience in the Pacific region preferred.
Additional information
The assignment is planned for 63 person months.
Marshall Islands
Attachments
Duration of assignment
01/04/2025
- 31/10/2030
Deadline for applications
30/09/2024
Job type
long term
Job status
prequalification
Project reference
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women