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The Kaizen Company GUC Specialist - She Leads Pakistan Rises in Islamabad, Pakistan
Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.
Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 300 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.
Kaizen is seeking a Grant under Contract (GUC) Specialist for the USAID/She Leads Pakistan Rises activity, (SLPRA). The SLPRA will increase women’s participation in Pakistan’s economy by supporting women-led businesses (WLBs), including start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). The activity will achieve this through four mutually reinforcing objectives that aim to address underlying root causes obstructing WLBs from progressing.
The objectives of SLPRA are:
Objective 1: Strengthen business enabling environment for women-led businesses
Objective 2: Improved Access to Economic Resources
Increased Access to Capital
Improved business performance, climate resilience and adaptation, and supply chain linkages
Increased access to markets and reduced gender digital divide
Objective 3: Strengthen startups ecosystem
Objective 4: Supporting Pakistan’s response to economic shocks and opportunities
Responsibilities
The GUC Specialist will lead the GUC component of the activity. The GUC Specialist will establish, manage and implement the GUC program to support women led startups, and WLBs to scale their businesses, build resilience, and create job opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of seven (7) years senior management level experience in grants management, investment, fund management or the related field.
Master's degree in trade and investment, business, finance, public administration, international development, or other related discipline.
Experience leading grants management program and overseeing grants team.
Fluency in Urdu.
Position is dependent on award of activity.
For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.
At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.
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