Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist - Ghana

Tetra Tech is Leading with Science® to implement clean energy projects and policies that advance global climate and decarbonization goals. We advise national energy transition initiatives and structure finance to deploy clean energy solutions. We help create sustainable utilities and modern power grids. We promote equality and inclusivity in the global energy sector. We improve lives and livelihoods in the biggest cities and smallest villages, and at the intersection of energy-health and energy-water-food.

Project Summary: 

Tetra Tech is implementing the five-year, USAID-funded Power Africa Empower West Africa Activity. Building on a decade of Power Africa success, Power Africa Empower West Africa aims to close the energy poverty gap in the region by increasing the supply of and access to affordable and reliable electricity. By 2029, Power Africa Empower West Africa aims to establish six million new electricity connections; reach financial close for 2,500 megawatts of new generation capacity and 1,500 kilometers of new power lines; and achieve sales of 40,000 productive use of energy (PUE) devices.

Position Summary: 

Tetra Tech is recruiting for a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist to ensure gender integration across activities of the USAID’s Empower West Africa activity. The project aims to close the energy poverty gap in the region by increasing access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity. The GESI Specialist will be responsible for integrating gender across all tasks in the project including gender-inclusive policymaking, gender-focused research and incubation, sex-disaggregated Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) design, and GESI integration. The successful candidate should have experience and/or familiarity with gender and inclusion in the energy sector.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop project- and activity-specific GESI assessments and analyses, in accordance with USAID ADS 205 and the USAID Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy (2023), based both on literature review and in-country project-specific fieldwork involving primary data collection and/or collaboration with country-specific gender specialists. Identify problems faced in the energy sector in different countries in the region and provide strategic recommendations for successful design and implementation of Empower West Africa activities.  
• Provide on-demand technical assistance and advisory for project staff and Empower West Africa stakeholders including capacity building and training to support GESI integration into Empower West Africa activities. 
• Develop annual GESI strategies and action plans for Empower West Africa implementation based on GESI analysis including but not limited to strategies to
  • Increase women’s representation in the workforce of Empower West Africa’s energy partners,
  • Engage men for gender equality in the workplace and in the energy sector in the region, 
  • Support energy policy design including the development of affordable access to energy schemes, 
  • Integrate gender and inclusion considerations into Grants Under Contract activities. 
• Collaborate with project staff to ensure gender integration across Empower West Africa activities based on GESI assessment, strategies and action plan.
• Provide inputs for gender integration into Empower West Africa Annual Work Plan, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and communications plans and materials.
• Document and report on project activities, conduct technical reviews and prepare technical presentations, reports, strategy papers and other deliverables as required by Empower West Africa.
• Implement GESI activities as outlined in the GESI strategies and action plan and support all components of the project to execute GESI related activities.