Consultant – Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion Expert
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GEDSI consultant advancing gender, disability, and social inclusion across IWMI’s international water-development projects. Providing technical advice, capacity building, MEL support, and donor-ready guidance.
Responsibilities:
- Assess the existing Jahez GEDSI Action Plan and its implementation status
- Develop a GEDSI technical support workplan, implementation schedule, and coordination mechanisms
- Provide periodic GEDSI technical advisory and quality assurance updates
- Review project activities, partner deliverables, reports, publications, communication materials, research methodologies, and stakeholder engagement activities
- Identify GEDSI-related risks, gaps, opportunities, and corrective or adaptive actions
- Deliver up to three structured GEDSI capacity-building sessions
- Develop training needs assessments, curricula, presentation materials, practical tools, exercises, attendance records, feedback summaries, and learning reports
- Support the MEL team and implementing partners with GEDSI indicators, data disaggregation, monitoring tools, reporting, evidence gaps, and lessons learned
- Develop, adapt, and refine practical GEDSI tools and guidance materials
- Provide GEDSI technical support for project reviews, donor missions, learning events, procurement and activity-planning documents, and communication campaigns
- Prepare briefing notes, evidence summaries, recommendations, and supporting documentation
- Prepare a final GEDSI learning and recommendations report
Requirements:
- Advanced university degree in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, International Development, Public Policy, Human Rights, Sociology, Disability Studies, or a related discipline
- At least 7 to 10 years of professional experience in gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion programming
- Demonstrated experience integrating GEDSI into climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, natural resource management, water, environmental, or resilience programs
- Proven experience working on FCDO-funded projects or with other major bilateral or multilateral donors
- Strong understanding of safeguarding, intersectionality, and inclusive development approaches
- Experience designing and delivering capacity-building initiatives
- Experience supporting monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems with GEDSI-related indicators
- Excellent analytical, facilitation, communication, and report-writing skills
- Experience working with government institutions, NGOs, research organizations, and community stakeholders
- Excellent command of written and spoken English
- Proficiency in Arabic is highly desirable
- Application must include a CV, cover letter, and three references
Benefits:
- Globally recruited consultancy position
- Competitive remuneration rate
- Seven-month contract duration
- Multicultural, multicolor, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary working environment
- Inclusive organization committed to diversity and gender equity
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