Gender Advisor

Activity Background

SoCha intends to submit a proposal for the USAID Building Evidence for Decision-Making (BE4D) activity. This activity will incentivize evidence use for decision-making via high-quality monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) and collaboration, learning, and adaptive management (CLA) related services for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation (DDI), as well as other Operating Units (OUs) with whom DDI partners and which will have the option to buy-in to the delivery of services by BE4D on demand. This evidence may also be used by and benefit local actors and implementing partners. BE4D will operate from Washington, D.C.

The activity will achieve the overall purpose through the following objectives:

• Objective 1 – Design
• Objective 2 – Performance Monitoring for Learning and Adaptive Management
• Objective 3 – Evaluations and Other Analyses/Assessments for Learning and Adaptive Management
• Objective 4 – Training and Advising/Mentoring
• Objective 5 – Communications, Dissemination, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Learning
• Objective 6 – Collaborating, Learning, and Adaptive Management

Scope of Work

SoCha seeks an experienced Gender Advisor (GA) to provide technical subject matter expertise on gender equality and women’s empowerment to integrate these approaches into the program cycle in coordination with an Activity Manager from the USAID Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub.

The GA responsibilities include:

• Supporting gender-sensitive performance monitoring, integrating gender and other subpopulations into evaluation designs as relevant;
• Support with designing and implementing gender-sensitive evaluations and/or evaluations of gender equality and women’s empowerment programs;
• Integrating gender into activity/project/program monitoring, evaluation and learning plans;
• Identifying best practices for integrating gender throughout the program cycle;
• Working collaboratively with USAID bureaus to promote the adoption of best practices for integrating gender throughout the program cycle;
• Monitoring broader gender equality and women’s empowerment trends at the Agency and beyond so that best practices feed into this mechanism;
• Sharing relevant knowledge from gender integration best practices from the mechanism with others at the Agency and beyond;
• Tracking and keeping record of all gender-related activities from this mechanism.

Minimum qualifications and experience

• An advanced degree in a relevant field such as monitoring and evaluation, women’s studies, gender studies, or international development
• 8+ years of experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment programming and technical monitoring and evaluation
• Must demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work collaboratively and engage effectively in a team environment
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills, such as demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical subject matter to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to foster transparency and trust with any other partners
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing monitoring plans, learning agendas, and/or evaluations
• Demonstrated experience with gender-sensitive performance monitoring including but not limited to development of gender-sensitive custom indicators, indicator reviews, and trend analysis
• Demonstrated excellent written and spoken English language skills.

Location

Washington DC, USA.

How to apply

To apply, please upload your CV via the following link: https://jobs.socha.net/gender-advisor-be4d-washington/05/03/2023/.
Applications close on May 15th, 2023. Application review will be on a rolling basis and a suitable applicant may be selected before this date.