Job Title: Gender Evaluation Specialist
Job Location: Washington, DC
Primary Role: The Gender Evaluation Specialist will report to the Director, Economic Development and will work as part of a team and independently to design and implement evaluation and research activities as part of a 5-year, USAID-funded project to further the evidence base on land tenure and property rights practices. The Gender Evaluation Specialist will have a demonstrated understanding of the differential rights, knowledge, abilities, and approaches that men and women apply in the use and conservation of land and other natural resources. Knowledge of gender issues in agriculture is highly desirable. He/she will also have experience in applying such knowledge in the assessment, design, and evaluation of project activities, especially interventions seeking to improve tenure security and access to land. He/she will be responsible for ensuring that gender concerns are effectively and efficiently woven into all programming activities under project, for compliance with USAID’s Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy, and will have lead responsibility for research agenda issues related to women’s rights to land and other property assets and collaborate on other research questions including approaches to the most effective methods for disaggregating gender-related data and for gathering and making use of intra-household level data. Evaluations will use USAID tools and approaches as appropriate. The Gender Evaluation Specialist will also contribute content and materials based on research and evaluation findings to communicate land tenure and property rights issues, strategies, promising practices, and success stories within USAID and to external audiences. The Gender Specialist may also facilitate trainings for USG personnel related to gender and land tenure.
Travel Requirement: Approximately 25%.
The position is contingent upon ICRW receiving the award to carry out the project.
Education and Experience:
- Ph.D. in economics, agricultural economics, public health, or other relevant social science. M.A. with additional experience acceptable
- For candidates with a Ph.D., four (4) years to (6) years of experience working on gender as it relates to agriculture, natural resources and environment, food security, and broader development issues; for candidates with a M.A., at least eight (8) years of experience. Significant experience with research, analysis, and programmatic activities is essential.
Required Skills:
- Extensive knowledge in gender and land and property rights, including demonstrated expertise in conducting gender analysis, gender assessments, and/or gender-focused research of land and property rights, extra-legal dispute resolution, livelihoods, women’s economic empowerment, and agriculture.
- Ability to conceptualize, design, conduct, and communicate evaluation and research. Sound understanding of program development, management, and evaluation principles.
- Ability to work across programs and to apply research and analytical skills and knowledge in other economic area and across disciplines in health and social areas such as health and gender-based violence.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills, including advanced econometrics.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and/or conducting training.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills and demonstrated track record of producing high quality, well-written deliverables in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage projects, including staffing, workplans, deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
- Strong skills in English and sound working knowledge of an additional language such as Spanish, French or Swahili.
- Previous experience with USAID reporting & regulations preferred
Primary Duties:
- Undertake research and analysis that involves collecting and analyzing primary and secondary data for program evaluation and larger research questions; drafting sharp and comprehensive syntheses based on data analysis; and writing high quality reports, papers, training materials, and more informal products such as blogs and success stories.
- Ensure that the project meets Gender Analysis requirements and that gender is meaningfully integrated into overall project monitoring and evaluation in accord with relevant USAID policies.
- Give practical advice to implementing partners about addressing gender in all programming activities under the project
- Provide technical assistance including practical gender guidance and input on agriculture proposals on design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; conduct gender audits of agriculture projects.
- Design educational/communications materials and conduct trainings conduct related to gender and land tenure and property rights.
- Coordinate with ICRW’s assets and property rights body of work.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit by December 5, 2012, a cover letter, resume, (2) writing samples, salary requirements and 3 references with contact information as e-mail attachments to Human Resources at jobs@icrw.org. Candidates who do not submit all of the requested application materials will not be considered. Please indicate "Gender Evaluation Specialist" in the subject line of the email. Due to the volume of resumes we receive, we are not able to respond to individual inquiries regarding the status of candidacy. Therefore, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Employment is contingent upon receiving contract award.
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