Lowongan Kerja Posisi Innovation Manager Operations & Gender di Yayasan Inisiatif Dagang Hijau

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you ready to join an organisation where you can make an impact on international supply chains by applying your analytical and practical skills? Do you get excited when thinking about working on gender transformative business models? IDH has an excellent opportunity for you in the Insights and Innovations team, as we are looking for a proactive and pragmatic Innovation Manager Operations & Gender.

The role

The Insights & Innovations (I&I) Business Unit (BU) is responsible for giving direction to internal and external stakeholders by providing strategic advise and thought leadership on better jobs, better income, better environment, gender, technology and smallholder inclusive business models. The BU is also building tools and solutions and acts as a linking pin between the other BUs by coordination and alignment.

The role consists of two main responsibilities. First, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining the I&I BU operations. IDH is a fast-growing organization and going through internal operational improvements, requiring you to be well connected to colleagues from different teams, from finance to partnerships and operations. You will be asked to provide ad-hoc support to colleagues to contribute to efficient and smooth team operations. Second, you will be part of the gender team within I&I, contributing to mainstreaming gender and moving the IDH gender agenda forward. IDH has seen throughout the years that gender equality is a catalyser for economic growth. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are essential to building healthy and resilient businesses. IDH believes that when the private sector adopts gender inclusive strategies, their impact increases and their business models will be more commercially viable.

For this role it’s important that you get energy from handling multiple tasks at the same time, while aiming to get the best result.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

I&I BU Operations

• Budget: Coordinate the budget of the Insights & Innovations (I&I) team
• Knowledge management: Improve and update the internal IDH platforms and systems for the I&I team
• Reporting: Coordinate input on and prepare quarterly updates and corporate reporting
• Contracting: Support new colleagues with the contracting process
• Team events: Organizing (but not facilitating) team meetings
• Operational support: Support with ad-hoc request from colleagues

Mainstreaming Gender

• Innovation: Develop tools and materials to support project teams and gender champions
• Learning: Conduct research on gender interventions to create insights for cross sector learning
• Internal processes: Support with the integration of gender components into the IDH processes and procedures
• Advise: Providing technical gender advise to program teams globally
• Thought leadership: Present at internal and external meetings and platforms to share our insights to move the gender agenda forward
• Gender team support: Assist with preparing internal and external meetings and other tasks to support the team including preparing PPT presentations and alike

Who you are

You are hands-on and you have excellent organizational and planning skills to structure and guide operational work processes and flows. You have a good understanding of gender agendas of private sector companies.
You are great at prioritizing and coordinating work to meet agreed on goals. You are a people person and are able to gain commitment from and coordinate smoothly with IDH colleagues and our partners. You are able to work independently and communicate clearly. You are happy to roll up your sleeves and flex from budget to reporting to content driven work.

What you bring

• A relevant Master’s degree
• 5-7 years of working experience in a private sector company or NGO in the areas of sustainability and gender. Consultancy experience is a pre
• Good understanding of (agricultural) supply chain sustainability is a pre
• Good communicator and ability explain complex issues in a fact-based and simple way
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English. Additional languages are an advantage but not required

Who we are

IDH puts people, planet, and progress at the heart of trade by leveraging the power of markets to create better jobs, better incomes, a better environment, and gender equity for all. To catalyse change at scale, IDH innovates, convenes, and invests in inclusive and sustainable solutions that enable businesses to create value for people and planet, while improving their own performance. To create the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time, IDH focuses on empowering people within corporations, the global financial sector and governments that have the most influence over value chains.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, IDH has around 300 employees globally, operating in 20 landscapes and 12 commodities and sourcing regions with over 1000 public and private partners. In 13 years of operation, IDH has generated over 390 M in private sector investment and support for new business models that create better jobs, better incomes, a better environment, and gender equity for all.
IDH’s work is made possible thanks to the funding and trust of a variety of public and private donors, among which the Governments of Netherlands, Denmark, and other government donors and private foundations.
For more information, go to *************** or follow @IDHTrade on Twitter and LinkedIn.

What we offer

IDH offers a dynamic international environment and an enthusiastic and passionate team. As an IDH team member you can contribute to positive global change. The position is for 40 hours per week, initially for one year, with the intention to extend. We offer a competitive salary between the range of EUR 4258, – and EUR 5110, – (if based in NL) and solid fringe benefits, including a good pension scheme.

The position based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, London, the UK or in Nairobi, Kenya. Candidates should be nationals of either one of these countries or should have permission to work either of these locations.

Application

Would you like to apply? Just send us your motivation and resume in English by using the following hyperlink: ***************

We encourage applicants to respond as soon as possible, latest by 20th February, 2023.

At IDH sustainable trade initiative, we’re committed to equal employment opportunity, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We strive to be a more equal opportunity workplace every day.