Company Details

World's largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting member firms

Assignment Details

We are looking for a Consultant - Gender Specialist (Bangladesh) to help us support in the following:

•Support the GIDA Team Leader (TL) in activity planning, team coordination meetings and design of data collection instruments
•Contribute to the GIDA work plan methodology, data collection instruments, preliminary document list for desk review, stakeholder list for interviews, and schedule of activities in the respective country.
•As assigned by the TL, for each country, perform desk review of USAID program documents, assessments and evaluations, along with GOI reports, and research from universities, think tanks and NGOs in the respective country
•Working with the GIDA team, use desk review analysis and review of available data sources on marginalized groups to identify key gaps in data regarding inclusion that require further investigation in each country
•With the GIDA team, develop inclusion gap questions and agenda to be used for key informant interviews, including government entities, non-governmental organizations, universities and research institutes, and other actors involved in USAID-assisted inclusion programming in the respective country
•Contribute to design of a systems map using the desk review and stakeholder interviews which synthesizes all collected data and analyses to understand the current dynamics from an overall inclusion standpoint and in relation to specific groups, and identifies leverage points, connections, and patterns in the respective country
•In coordination with the TL, provide guidance to the Statistician in identifying and accessing available data on gender and social inclusion relating to the seven selected groups in the respective country
•Develop recommendations for data collection to help provide evidence base for specific short and long-term interventions in the respective country
•Draft inputs for the inclusion analysis report which should include main findings and conclusions, and recommended actions needed to address the needs of marginalized groups through USAID programming in the respective country

This is an approx 20 day engagement and the consultant will have to be based out of Bangladesh

Skills Required

• Master’s or PhD degree in sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, public health or rural development or other fields related to social inclusion and development
• At least 10 years of professional experience working in fields related to gender and social inclusion in the respective country
• Demonstrated experience in conducting research and sector assessments in the field of gender and social inclusion, including desk reviews, qualitative data collection
• Fluency in English and in one or more local languages of the respective country (Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong conceptual and writing skills in English, including demonstrated experience drafting publications for gender and/or social demographic analysis in the respective country