Senior Policy Advisor

2 weeks ago

Hanoi, Vietnam GREAT Full time

**FULL-TIME SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR**

**Location**

Hanoi, Lao Cai and Son La

**Project duration**

12 months (with the potential for a multi-year extension)

**Starting date**:
April 2024

**Deadline to apply**

22nd February 2024

**ABOUT US**

With more than 35 years of experience, Cowater International is Canada’s global leader in management consulting services specialising in international development. We have managed the implementation of over 2500 projects in more than 95 countries around the globe for clients such as DFID, DFAT Australia, the European Union, the World Bank and Global Affairs Canada. We work with governments, partner organisations, communities and civil society to design and implement sustainable solutions that generate lasting social, economic and environmental impacts. Our adaptive approach to management has led to our award-winning work and recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies from 2017 to 2021.

**BACKGROUND**

GREAT is a flagship initiative of the Australian aid program. The program promotes women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in the ethnically diverse north-west region of Vietnam, through the integration of a market systems development (MSD) approach.

The primary beneficiaries are women living in the provinces of Son La and Lao Cai, while an overarching emphasis is placed on the inclusion of women from ethnic minority communities as these provinces are home to twelve and twenty-six ethnic groups respectively.

The objectives of the Aus4Equality|GREAT Program are:

- **Objective 1** -** Women, particularly ethnic minority women living in Son La and Lao Cai, have improved economic benefits.
- **Objective 2** -** Women, particularly ethnic minority women living in Son La and Lao Cai, have increased confidence and social status, including more balanced workloads and greater decision making within the home, workplace, and community.
- **Objective 3** -** Women, particularly ethnic minority women and household members living in Son La and Lao Cai benefit from more gender responsive, inclusive, and effective provincial and national policies, plans, strategies, and programs.

Under GREAT, inclusive market development is identified as the primary vehicle for achieving women’s economic empowerment with its focus on:

- Reach: Engaging women in all project activities and addressing barriers to participation.
- Benefit: Improve women’s access to assets, financial services and support services.
- Empower: Strengthen the ability of women to make strategic life choices and put these into action.

The program is about to implement phase two and continue focus on agriculture and tourism, identifying specific sectors that lend themselves to opportunities for women’s economic empowerment and work with multiple stakeholders to address constraints, generate opportunities, drive market growth and increase productive value of the sector. Cross-sector strategies of women’s leadership and entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, digital inclusion, policy improvement will complement the sector strategies.

In phase 2 GREAT will support selected government partners as they implement a number of policy initiatives to ensure that “Government policies, including National Target Programs (NTPs) for period 2021 - 2025 and its implementation at central and provincial levels (particularly in Lao Cai and Son La) created a more conducive enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment”, including:

- Inclusive and Gender-Responsive Production Support under NTPs 2021-2025 and new Programing for 2026-2030 at national and provincial level in Son La and Lao Cai
- Strategic Supervision of the NTPs implementation
- TA support to build capacity for the local economic governance and inclusion of private sector and gender in Son La and Lao Cai

Cowater is recruiting a Senior Policy Advisor as outlined in this TOR to lead and implement these initiatives.

**SUMMARY OF THE ASSIGNMENT**

Reporting to the Deputy Team Leader and working closely with other GREAT staff, the Senior Policy Advisor will oversee a team of policy advisors and technical partners, provide strategic steering and technical support to partners to maximise outcome and document and share best practices on policy support at national and provincial level, updating of GREAT policy strategy and contribute to organisation-wide objectives as a member of the Strategy Team.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Program Development**:

- Update the GREAT Policy Dialogue Strategy and annual policy dialogue plans, together with the GREAT management team, DFAT and selected partners.
- Support partners in co-designing proposals in line with GREAT policy support strategy or emerging areas of interest for approval by GREAT/Investment Committee.
- Identify opportunities to upscale GREAT successful approaches and models through government plans and policies at the province and national levels.
- Develop partnerships with relevant stakeholders

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