About Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) is a pioneer in the global impact investing movement, dedicated to reshaping finance for sustainable development with a focus on gender equality and climate action through capital mobilization and data-based solutions. For over a decade and a half, we've been building the sustainable investing market, from establishing the world's largest crowdfunding platform for impact investing (Impact Partners™), operating award-winning enterprise technical assistance programs, creating innovative financial products such as the Women's Livelihood Bond™ Series, (listed 6 bonds in the public market with zero credit default) and establishing an Impact Institute and Research & Advisory. While we are very deep with our work in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, our work spans 60 countries globally where we have invested close to $500 million of private-sector capital, positively impacted over 160 million direct and household lives, and avoided over 1.9 million metric tons of carbon and have collected over 90,000+ data points on sustainable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The base of IIX's work is IIX Values™, an impact verification tech solution measuring investments' social and environmental impact to the last mile, amplifying the voices of the underserved. In 2022, we, along with global partners, launched the Orange Movement™ and, within that, created a new asset class, Orange Bond, to demonstrate the intersectionality of gender equality and climate action and unlock $10 billion in capital markets by 2030, impacting 100 million women, girls, and gender minorities and making them a key player in climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. In 2024, we unveiled our global data hub, IIX Intelligence™, which aggregates, evaluates, and benchmarks data from sustainable MSMEs, offering unparalleled insights into gender diversity, climate action, ESG performance, and community risk management. IIX Intelligence demonstrates with data the importance of MSMEs as a backbone of sustainable development. Numerous accolades, including the Oslo Business for Peace and the UN Global Climate Action Award, have recognized our efforts. Our team's 'PREM' values—passion, resilience, equity, and mavericks—propel our efforts, bringing meaningful change to Global South communities and the 99%.
About a career with IIX: As a consultant you will gain exposure to our PREM philosophy that believes in empowering individuals who want to instigate change. Thus as an aspiring PREM, you believe in:
• Passionate: Commitment to social finance and impact investing as a path to unlock society's potential to effect social change is essential for a happy and successful tenure at IIX.
• Resilient: Similar to our enterprises working in emerging markets, our IIX team members have strong mental and emotional fortitude and are able to recover quickly from difficulties or setbacks. We look for people with an adaptable and positive attitude and strong sense of self-worth, which enables them to move forward and continue to strive for their goals even in the face of adversity.
• Equitable: At IIX, we manage toward impact maximization and produce measurable and transparent returns – both social and financial. These results strengthen the ecosystem and transform existing realities by helping impact enterprises magnify their impact and scale. We are fair and impartial in our actions and ensure that we make objective and unbiased decisions based on facts and impact.
• Maverick: While IIX is a seasoned stakeholder in the impact enterprise and impact investing space in Asia, we pride ourselves on creating new opportunities. We look for people with an independent and unorthodox approach to thinking and behaving. If you are someone who is non-conformist, innovative, and independent, often going against the grain, does not like following the crowd and is not afraid to express your own opinions, we want you.
Our clients and partners span the spectrum of public and private sector including foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Foundation, corporations such as Standard Chartered Bank and KKR, international non-profits such as Oxfam and World Vision, multilateral institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, UN Agencies such as UNDP, and government agencies such as USAID and SIDA.
Scope of work and position overview: IIX is seeking a Gender Equality (GE) Advisor or a Gender Specialist to work with different IIX program tools to ensure the GE integrations in all the project activities of IIRI in Indonesia. The GE or Gender specialist will communicate frequently with GAC specialist on gender issues related to IIRI project. This is a full-time consulting role where the Gender specialist will work with IIX from the project plan development phase.
Below is the broad scope of work for the Gender Specialist (Gender Equality Advisor) developed by IIX. The Gender specialist will work on a full-time basis with the Project team on project implementation and reporting with regard to the gender component, which will include:
• Provide expert advice on gender-related matters concerning project implementation using relevant analytical frameworks (e.g., GAC's gender-based analysis (GBA), IIX's proprietary gender lens investing (GLI) framework, etc.)
• Contribute towards the development of gender-sensitive interventions that enhance gender awareness and sensitivity among social impact businesses (SIBs) and providers of capital in Indonesia
• Support the design and implementation of gender-related trainings and capacity-building activities for different ecosystem players including capital providers, ecosystem enablers and SIBs/sustainable MSMEs
• Add to IIX's proposal a Gender focus – define and expand on terms such as gender-sensitive, gender-responsive, and gender transformative
• Take the lead role in the selection and assessment of gender impact, and development of measurement tools and guidelines, with integration of IIX Values tools
• Take the lead role in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of all the gender indicators in the Project Performance Framework to ensure all the indicators will be measured at the end of the project.
• Communicate with the GAC team on the gender component and related activities to ensure that the Project's gender integration is complied with GAC's policies.
• Attend internal and external meetings with project team and GAC, and concerned project stakeholders to review and assess progress and discuss gender challenges/solutions in the project.
• Other relevant duties as required
Location: Indonesia
Start date: July 2024
