Sustainability Advisor

**Project Description**:
The Women’s Economic and Social Empowerment Program is designed to engage, leverage, and partner with the private sector as well as public social service initiatives to encourage women’s participation in the workforce; generate demand for financial services; promote tailored, market-based solutions to women’s economic empowerment; and strengthen GBV prevention and response such that women become more economically and socially resilient.

Program activities **_integrate, mutually reinforcing private and public sector-led approaches_** that aim to **_change power relationships, transform structures, and build agency_** to effect results along critical change pathways. The program interventions are designed to lead women in priority governorates feeling safe, valued, and empowered at work; motivated and able to embrace financial autonomy; and respected and free from violence in their homes, communities, and workplaces.

The program works closely with **_market-based partners_** to develop, lead, scale, sustain, and champion innovative solutions, recognizing the economic AND social benefits of gender-inclusive, empowering policies and practices.

**Program GOE Counterparts**:
The Ministry of International Cooperation (MOIC), The Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS), The National Council for Women (NCW)

**Job Summary**:
The Sustainability Advisor will work with the program technical team and the Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) Advisor to develop and implement a sustainability plan guiding continued impact and scale-up of interventions beyond the life of the USAID award. This will include providing technical assistance to the main counterparts of the program; the Government of Egypt (GOE) stakeholders, private sector companies, financial services providers, NGOs, and program implementing partners to assume responsibility for sustaining and operationalizing program interventions. The Advisor will be a member of the senior technical management team and will provide liaison with other related other program and activities funded by USAID and/or other donors.

The Advisor will support the program team in embedding sustainability and scalability, through providing support and advice, tools and techniques that promote the integration of sustainability into activity interventions. S/He will engage with stakeholders to communicate the benefits of adopting a sustainable approach.

**Primary Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Support the design and implementation of the Advisory Committee at the National level through presenting and discussing interventions that could be owned by the program’s counterparts. This Advisory board includes representatives from GOE, other donors and main gender players in the field.
- Support the Technical Team to lead the effort to design and conduct working group meetings at the governorate level. The working groups will include different stakeholders to build sustainability plans that are tailored to the governorate level. These groups should work on scaling up and replicating activity interventions and engage with counterparts who can provide long-term support and possibly cost sharing for activities.
- Provide technical leadership for the development of Program’s sustainability interventions that support program activities to sustain beyond the lifetime of the program.
- Develop, lead, scale, sustain, and champion innovative solutions that recognize the economic and social benefits of gender-inclusive, empowering policies and practices.
- Build the capacity of local partners and stakeholders, including private sector companies and FSP to sustain the improvement of access to economic opportunities for women.
- Identify key influencers and champions from the business sector that can encourage long-term behavior change and norm shifts in the workplace.
- Coordinate with other USAID programs and other donors, to share lessons learned, tools and experience and find synergies for sustainability.
- Disseminate the lessons learned and promote program methodology towards women’s economic and social empowerment and the benefits of adopting sustainability approaches.

**Required Qualifications**:

- ** **Senior-level professional with experience in development and sustainability, with at least ten years of experience in developing country settings or the equivalent.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in gender and development studies, political and/or, social sciences or a related field, or a combination of education and experience that yields the required competencies. A Master’s degree is preferred.
- Proven competence in most of the areas of responsibility listed above.
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting, culturally sensitive, and with a tolerance for ambiguity and ability to be flexible to changing circumstances.
- At least five years experience directly managing a development program or equivalent.
- Proven ability to manage projec