Technical Specialist

4 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada MEDA Full time

**Position Summary**

The Technical Specialist (Level II) is part of a global MEDA team with diverse voices, experience and knowledge. This is a highly collaborative role, working closely with others in the organization to support technical consistency and cohesion and encouraging technical innovation.

The Technical Specialist (Level II) supports MEDA’s technical programming initiatives, developing technical strategies; delivering training; providing technical assistance at all stages of program/project design, development, implementation, and measurement; and developing resources/tools. This position provides support to MEDA’s international projects and staff to mainstream, integrate and contextualize standardized technical programming policies, strategies and interventions.

The position contributes to business development knowledge mobilization and thought leadership from a technical perspective into in the specified technical area. Depending on location of hire, international travel may be a requirement for approximately 30-60 days per year.
- Job Status: Full Time
- Start Date: As soon as possible
- **Languages: Fluency (written and oral) in French & English is required**:

- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

**GESI Technical Unit Summary**

The GESI unit provides technical guidance on MEDA’s market systems strategic direction, priorities, and technical quality, in alignment with MEDA’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025 and its three central pillars: a focus on agri-food market systems, partnerships for systems change, and a North-South equilibrium. The unit is part of the Technical Department that works collectively through an Integrated Technical Framework which places equal priority on positive economic (Investment and Financial Services), social (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) and environmental (Environment and Climate Change) impact.

Current core approaches or initiatives led by the GESI Technical Unit, in close collaboration with other technical units, include:

- Integrated agri-food market systems assessment and analysis
- Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework
- Women Sales Agents and Women Lead Farmers (with Market Systems Technical Unit)
- Gender Transformative Approaches, including Gender Equality Champions and the Gender Action Learning System (GALS)
- Leadership, mentorship and role model promotion

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Technical Support to Country Programs and Projects (65%)**
- With a strong customer-service and local-led development orientation, provide support such that assigned projects’ technical activities are designed and implemented using MEDA core approaches, industry best practice, and sustainable development principles.
- Complete or support the execution of the specific technical component in project contract deliverables as per Internal Task Agreements (ITAs) held or as assigned providing quality output, tools, resources and best practices guidance according to MEDA’s technical strategy for the region
- Ensure project-level access to technical knowledge, tools, approaches, technical learning agendas and innovation
- Contribute technical expertise to project implementation, annual work plans and budgets, and other critical documents for projects and programs, as assigned
- During project start-up and inception, advise on the recruitment of relevant technical staffing. Together with project-based technical specialists, provide staff technical orientation to concepts and best practices and advise on ways to ensure the integration of all technical areas across all project teams.
- Provide regular support to project-based Technical Specialist focal points as assigned; this may include coaching and training, co-developing resources and tools and/or providing guidance and oversight for their technical assistance activities
- Contribute to, support, or review all assigned projects’ Strategic Learning Agenda studies related to technical programming. Align any project technical learning with the technical area learning agenda.
- Host regular individual or group peer coaching calls (minimum monthly) with project GESI-related staff.
- Provide specialized assistance on key technical approaches

**Technical Strategy, Tools, Knowledge Management & Mobilization And Thought Leadership (20%)**

**_
Technical Strategy and Tools_**
- Support the Technical Director to develop, refine and maintain a technical strategy which outlines core technical approaches, planned innovation, knowledge mobilization and management, training plans, networking and thought leadership.
- Together with project-based technical specialists, provide staff technical orientation to technical strategies, concepts and best practices and advise on ways to ensure their integration across all project teams
- Create, adapt and improve processes, tools or platforms linked to the strategies that will have cross-project or organization-wide applicability (e.g. core approaches)
- Contribute

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