Stort-Term Senior Gender Expert

Short-term Senior Gender Expert

Headlight Organization Overview

Founded in 2018, Headlight Consulting Services, LLP delivers data-driven decision-making to its partners through robust strategy design support, in-depth monitoring, evaluation, and learning technical services, and facilitated organizational change processes. Headlight brings over 60 years of combined experience in international development and expertise in qualitative methods; systems-thinking; utilization-focused Collaborating, Learning, Adapting, Monitoring, and Evaluation (CLAME); emergent methods such as developmental evaluation; organizational development; and much more. Headlight offers fit-for-purpose, agile solutions to improve the efficiency and efficacy of development programs around the globe, focusing on the structures and systems that enable sustainable solutions.

Summary of Consultancy

Headlight Consulting Services seeks consultant(s) to provide short-term Gender Analysis support to an ongoing project. This engagement is to support the USAID/Djibouti Country Program conduct a Gender Analysis for their 2024 – 2028 Strategic Framework and enable crucial gender inclusion within their activity implementation. This is a temporary remote position (estimated at ~60 hours) that will report virtually to the DE Administrator Lead in the Portland, ME area. The DE Administrator Lead will help to provide quality control and timeline approvals to ensure that the project is moving forward in alignment with what has requested from the Country Program. The ability to work overlap with East Coast (GMT -5) and East Africa (GMT +3) time zones is required.

The tentative timeline for this consultancy is 12 January 2024 through 12 March 2024. These dates are subject to change.

Responsibilities

The Senior Gender Expert consultant will be responsible for a variety of tasks, depending on need, but are likely to include the following outlined responsibilities, in support of ongoing Headlight projects:

• Conduct qualitative analysis (including data coding) on existing documentation, provided data sets, and newly collected data
• Draft findings, conclusions and recommendations, based on qualitative analysis
• Contribute to drafting and reviewing reports or other learning products, based on analysis
• Participate in data collection efforts by conducting interviews and/or facilitating focus group discussions
• Assist with logistics in organizing data collection efforts
• Maintain trackers on progress
• Contribute to individual and team workplanning and coordination
• Regularly participate in team communications to maintain consistency and quality assurance throughout data collection and analysis
• Provide quality assurance of all deliverables

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of international experience in gender analysis in the development areas of democracy and governance, health and education, economic growth, trade, private sector engagement and environment.
• Master’s in sociology or anthropology or a relevant social science field.
• Demonstrated leadership skills to lead team meetings, coordinate, and gather different points of view of members of the team.
• Demonstrated experience with qualitative data analysis, statistical analysis, and associated applications required.
• Familiarity with public policies addressing gender and social inclusion gaps, gender-based violence, disability, and gender agendas and programs of USAID.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.