Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist, USAID Upoma Activity
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Project Summary:
MSI is a partner of EnCompass LLC in the implementation of the USAID Upoma Activity which is a central Mission-wide platform that provides a range of analytical and advisory services in support of the Mission’s design, performance monitoring, evaluation, and operational learning and adapting efforts. The activity will play a significant role in achieving the successful implementation of the Mission’s: 1) Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) 2020 - 2025), 2) Performance Management Plan (PMP), and 3) the Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting agenda. The Platform is conducting a performance evaluation of the USAID/ Performance Evaluation of Bandarban Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (BANI) to assess the performance achieved in its’ implementation. Specifically, the evaluation team will examine and assess to what extent the initiative has achieved BANI’s overall goal: to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic mitigation measures, such as restrictions on movement, on incomes and nutrition in Bandarban by increasing agricultural production and improving nutrition of poor and extremely poor populations to strengthen gender equitable food security in five selected upazilas of the Bandarban District delivered by the project.
**Please note: Only Bangladeshi nationals are eligible for this position**
Position Summary:
The Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist will support the planning, data collection, analysis and report writing and presentation processes for the evaluation. The GESI Specialist will support the development of high-quality reports and ensure the timely submission of all deliverables. The GESI Specialist will perform with demonstrated cultural sensitivity, particularly when interacting with a range of stakeholders. The GESI Specialist will participate in conducting Key Stakeholder Interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with USAID and Implementing Partner staff, to ensure gender and social inclusion perspectives are integrated into all aspects of data analysis, key evaluation findings, and evidence-based recommendations. The GESI Specialist will be expected to participate in the presentation of findings and recommendations to the USAID/Bangladesh team and to address comments from stakeholders on findings shared. The GESI Specialist will be expected to be in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the initial uptake as well as travel within the five upazilas of Bandarban district in the activity zone for a period of up to three weeks. This is a Short-Term Technical (STTA) position that will report to the Evaluation Team Leader. The expected period of performance will run from October 2024 to March 2025, and the estimated level of effort is 42 working days.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure gender and social inclusion perspectives are integrated into all aspects of the evaluation, specifically how BANI considers and ensures equitable access for women, increasing female engagement and empowerment, and promoting women entrepreneurs.
- Examine the impact of women’s participation, contributions, and effects upon the viability and sustainability of the BANI activity approach.
- Provide analysis on whether women have had benefitted from or effected public and private sector engagement through BANI activity.
- Oversee the implementation of interactive voice response (IVR) survey, which are automated phone-based communications, and manage survey data.
- Support the planning, data collection, evaluation, and report writing and presentation processes.
- Support the development of high-quality reports and timely submission of all deliverables.
- Undertake Key Stakeholder Interviews, FGDs, and implement agreed-upon survey questions.
- Synthesize and evaluate findings from qualitative and quantitative data.
- Contribute to a weekly progress report throughout the implementation of the evaluation.
- Synthesize and review the processed information from Key Stakeholder Interviews, FGDs, and surveys, which will be provided by the team members shortly following each Key Stakeholder Interviews and FGD, allowing the Evaluation Team Leader to begin to formulate findings even before data collection is complete.
- Contribute to the enumerator training.
- Participate in qualitative interview coding with the use of the established codebook.
- Contribute to the overall data analysis plan to include quantitative and qualitative strands.
- Produce detailed interview notes after each interview and weekly progress reports during data collection phase.
- Assist with data collection and evaluation in collaboration with the other evaluation team members to produce the evaluation report.
- Make contributions as necessary to the findings and conclusions table.
- Contribute to the presentation of the evaluation initial findings to USAID as well as a mission-wide presentation of recommendations.
- Contribute to the final report by incorporating gender and social inclusion analysis and findings and integrating comments as needed.
- Contribute to the development of presentation of findings for USAID.
- Contribute to revisions process in order to finalize the expected deliverables, such as work plan, final report and in/out-brief plan/meetings, in a timely manner.
- Perform any other tasks or activities necessary for the success of the evaluation.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as international development, gender studies, sociology, or other relevant subjects is required.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the GESI sector, specifically working with indigenous populations and minority groups is required.
- Experience in designing, conducting, and analyzing the results of participatory gender and social inclusion assessments is required.
- Experience in at least one of the following sectors and technical areas: livelihoods, agribusiness and market development, public-private partnerships, value added agriculture enterprises, maternal and child health, nutrition, and WASH for USAID or other international development agencies is required.
- Experience working in Bangladesh or South Asia is preferred.
- Knowledge and experience working in evaluations and/or assessments of projects with similar scopes, demonstrating strong analytical skills is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of GESI knowledge.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English is required.
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