Livelihoods and Gender Lead August 2021
About Ethical Tea Partnership The Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP) is a non-profit membership organisation working with tea companies, development organisations and governments to improve the lives of tea workers, farmers and the environment in which they live and work. Much of the world’s tea is grown in places that face significant sustainability challenges. ETP’s programmes are focused on driving forward long-term systemic changes in three impact areas economics, equality and environment. These programmes aim to improve the progress that is being made towards attaining the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in tea-growing regions. With the support of its 50 members, including the biggest multinational companies in the tea sector, ETP’s programmes to date have reached over one million people. As well as supporting communities
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on the ground, the organisation leads the sustainability agenda through business innovation and influencing. ETP holds a strong track record in driving and delivering change in tea-growing regions through a range of partnerships; these span national tea boards and tea research institutes, producer associations, local and international NGOs, UN agencies such as the FAO and UNICEF, institutional donors such as IDH - Sustainable Trade Initiative, GIZ, and others. The organisation is made up of small, but dedicated, expert teams across most tea-growing regions, including Africa and Asia, as well as a London-based secretariat.
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The Role Title:
Livelihoods and Gender Lead
Location:
United Kingdom, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda or Sri Lanka.
Salary:
£50,000 - £53,000 in UK (or equivalent benchmark dependent on location)
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Job Summary ETP’s vision is for a thriving tea industry which is socially just and environmentally sustainable. The priority challenges that we seek to address are the economics of tea (including living wages and living incomes), equality (especially for women and children) and environment (including climate change mitigation and adaptation). ETP recently completed a strategic review and is embarking on a new phase as a platform to create systemic, transformational change for tea communities. The newly created role of Livelihoods and Gender Lead will be central to this process, accountable for providing technical expertise on social and economic development issues within ETP’s programmes and projects across all seven ETP tea origins – China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the Lead will work closely with regional project teams to ensure optimisation of the economic and social impact of each project toward the following goals: • Improving the economic sustainability of the tea industry so that workers and farmers in tea producing countries have decent livelihoods; workers earn a living wage and smallholder farmers earn a living income. • Developing empowered, safe tea communities with good opportunities for women and young people. Your role will be to provide guidance on living wages, living incomes, livelihoods and gender equality to the wide range of ETP activities, including advisory on project design and implementation, support on business pilots, and input to policy development. This is an exciting opportunity to not only strengthen ETP’s existing programme portfolio, but to pioneer new and innovative initiatives with the ETP member companies.
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Responsibilities The majority of the position will focus on supporting ETP’s programmatic work, with a lesser amount of time dedicated to business pilots and policy work.
Livelihoods and Gender programming (70%) • Identify opportunities and project ideas with a predominately social focus for ETP’s in-country programmes. For example, on living incomes, living wages and gender equality. • Assess the need for living wage and income benchmarking, research and review. Commission or undertake such evaluation, as required. • Understand ETP’s members’ social impact goals and commitments, and scope project ideas to support their attainment. • Lead on Gender and Livelihoods technical support for proposals to foundations, institutional and other donors. • Where needed, work with ETP staff to develop implementation plans and theories of change for ETP’s social impact projects. • Work with Insights Manager to monitor and evaluate the impact of programming against agreed KPIs and ensure that learning is systematically documented and shared with relevant stakeholders inside and outside ETP. • Align projects with technical standards such as national level minimum wage, CBA and gender policies. • Regularly review ETP’s projects to check for appropriate social impact content and delivery e.g. introduce livelihoods and income-generating focus in environmental projects; adopt a gender transformative approach • Annually contribute to the ETP country plans, ensuring that livelihoods and gender improvements are embedded in ETP’s work
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• Contribute to the setting of ETP’s KPIs for economics and equality; support the organisation to deliver those KPIs. Private sector innovation and pilots (20%) • Working with the Private Sector Innovation Lead and other stakeholders within ETP to help identify innovations for business, specifically seeking approaches which: • Deliver shared value through the tea value chain (e.g. living income and living wage) • Empower women (e.g. through management representation, gender-transformative procurement, equal pay policies) Policy and communications (10%) • Working with the Policy Officer and Communications team, help to develop and update ETP’s evidence-based policy positions and factsheets on the social issues in tea, including incomes and livelihoods, gender discrimination and access to welfare. • Develop case studies and other material to communicate the livelihoods and gender work being delivered by ETP. Includes capturing impact and change stories. • Contribute to industry wide discussions, conferences, webinars, etc. on livelihoods and gender. • Track developments in state, national and global policy on labour and equality. For example, monitor minimum wage legislation. Share with ETP team and suggest highlights for broader communications.
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Candidate profile To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter most: • Experience of working in a sector with similar inequality challenges (e.g. agriculture, garments, tobacco, food commodities) • Expert knowledge of the various international frameworks on equality and livelihoods (e.g. sustainable livelihoods frameworks, ILO Labour Code, Anker Methodology, UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, ILO Convention 190 and other acts/principles on labour equality and modern slavery) • Flexibility, adaptability and collaborative approach. • A belief in the power of business to create positive change, balanced with an appreciation of the constraints of private sector. • Cultural sensitivity when working with people from different backgrounds. Required Skills & Qualifications: Essential • 5+ years’ experience in a technical role providing support to community-led development programming across a range of contexts. • Advanced studies or equivalent experience in International Development, Economic Development, Agriculture or other relevant fields; participatory methodologies that promote learning and social change; participatory research and evaluation designs. • Experience of supporting communities to develop and implement gender-transformative interventions (such as income equity, addressing gendered roles, value chain equality and sustainable livelihoods and women’s empowerment and leadership) ideally within value chains. • Experience of mainstreaming and integration of gender within agriculture, economic development, and food security programming. • Experience of undertaking and facilitating community-led gender analysis and women’s rights, leadership and empowerment activities. • Skilled in designing and delivering participatory approaches to training and capacity
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development for staff, partners and community members. • Practical experience of working closely with M&E technical specialists on impact measurement for livelihoods and gender work. • Experience of representing the organisation’s work to high-level external stakeholders such as government and donor representatives. • International, cross-culture work experience. Desirable • Experience of supporting or implementing agricultural/rural development programming. • Experience of working closely with private sector or in corporate sustainability. • Experience of working on multi-country and multi-stakeholder programmes, including with NGOs, government agencies and academe. • Work experience (resident or remote) on livelihoods and gender in at least one of the teaproducing countries named. Essential behavioural competencies: • Solutions and action-oriented; offers practical suggestions to solve problems. • Tenacity and perseverance on complex projects. Drive, tempered with patience, is essential. • Proven team player and collaborator, having worked with a wide variety of people in international and virtual teams to meet deadlines; creating buy-in through influence and persuasion. • Able to engage with and propose solutions to partners at a senior level. • Positive attitude, open to coaching and teamwork. • Ability to work autonomously, identifying own priorities to ensure impact in livelihoods and gender equality are achieved throughout ETP’s organisation. • Working knowledge of developing countries and availability to travel internationally (up to four times per year when safe to do so).
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How to Apply All correspondence, at this stage, should be via Oxford HR. To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button on the job advert page. You will need to complete a short application form and submit an up-to-date curriculum vitae (of no more than 2-3 pages), and a cover letter. Please prepare your CV and cover letter before applying as they will be requested at the end of the application form. The documents should be saved in MS Word in the following format: Your First Name-Your Last NameDocument Name-Date (mmyyyy) e.g., Malika Cook-CV-082021ETP. Please note that all our clients recruiting in the UK are legally obliged to confirm that the appointee is eligible to work in the UK. As of 1 January 2021, government’s new regulations will apply. For further information visit the Home Office website. Timeline Closing date: Preliminary interviews: Final panel interviews:
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22 September 2021 End of October 2021 Early November 2021
Equality Statement Equality and diversity are at the core of Ethical Tea Partnership’s values. Staff are expected to work collectively and individually to promote a constructive and sensitive approach to others from a variety of backgrounds, where the work of others is valued and respected. Selection Process All candidates will receive an update regarding their application after the closing date. We advise candidates to add the role email to their safe senders list and regularly check their spam folder. Queries If you have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information, or would like to have an informal discussion, please email etp-equalityeconomicslead@oxfordhr.co.uk in the first instance.
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