National GESI Expert

The purpose of this role is to provide intersectional gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) analysis support to FCDO Posts based in DRC and the Sahel, focusing on participatory approaches and methodological support. Specifically, the role will entail:

• Leading the development of in-country GESI data collection and analysis, supporting FCDO Posts and their stakeholders to reflect on systems of social exclusion and gender inequality in their context and how that relates to poverty and marginalisation (mapping the system of social exclusion)
• Support FCDO Posts to enable their stakeholders to assess where they believe the most effective interventions can be made, testing their assumptions against evidence, and making informed decisions about how the GESI analysis is and can be used by them and their stakeholders.
• Provide guidance on maintaining a poverty and social exclusion focus in programming through GESI analysis.
• Work in collaboration with FCDO Posts and programme partners and stakeholders, including monitoring and evaluation staff, to ensure that the GESI analysis provides evidence to support FCDO in the development of FCDO’s Equalities Action Plan for future programming, diplomacy, and external engagement, and that the people they are working with and for agree with the analysis and indicators that will be used to assess progress.
• Essential criteria
• An understanding of social exclusion and gender analysis and other participatory methodologies and a commitment to people led development.
• An understanding of participatory feminist research principles.
• Experience in participatory research, appraisals and assessment.
• Skills in GESI analysis, and in one or more of the following
  • Qualitative research
  • Power analysis
  • Environmental analysis
  • Livelihoods and resilience
  • Economics for equality
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Systems mapping
  • Systems approaches
  • Theories of change
  • Transformational processes
• Confident and articulate in systems thinking and working with theories of change.
• You will be a graduate or activist in poverty, gender or exclusion issues with an understanding of how change happens. 5 year’s experience or the equivalent in relevant field.
• You will be passionate about participation and social inclusion
• You will have specialised in social inclusion and/or gender and participatory development.
• Experience of direct work in Gender & Social Inclusion and development in the South.
• Desirable Criteria:
• Being up-to-date on the current thinking in international development and approaches to poverty
• Understanding of key considerations in working cross-culturally.