Senior Cleared Gender Subject Matter and Technical Experts, USAID GenDev Project, Remote At Social Impact

Call for CVs: Cleared Senior Gender Subject Matter and Technical Experts, USAID GenDev Project, Remote

Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area global management consulting firm. We are a leader in evidence building and use and provide monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, capacity building, and learning services to make taxpayer funded programs more effective. Much of our work to date has focused on the international development and humanitarian assistance sector for federal clients such as USAID, the Department of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. We are looking to aggressively expand and grow our federal civilian work outside of these three Agencies with a focus on our core capabilities related to evidence building, evidence use, and learning. Social Impact is a great place to work. We are proud of our diversity and work actively to expand it as a way of improving our employees’ experience, our collective professional breadth and the quality of the work we do. We promote equity and inclusion through our policies and practices and foster a culture of belonging for everyone where differences and authenticity are honored and embraced. We work hard to create opportunities for growth and ensure that our staff are fulfilled and engaged. We believe we are better when we collaborate, learn from one another, and have fun while working hard.

Project Description:
Social Impact is implementing a 5-year institutional support contract to the USAID Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub (GenDev). The multi-million dollar contract provides institutional support services to engage subject matter experts and technical expertise to support efforts related to gender integration and equality in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of USAID programming.

Position Description:
SI is seeking to build a roster of gender personnel who have active or recent US secret-level clearance to fill full-time (1 year or more) or short-term (1 to 12 months duration) positions embedded directly within USAID. These personnel would support USAID in provision of subject matter expertise, technical assistance, administrative support, program support, and communications or outreach, to support gender equality goals of the Agency. Positions will require experience related to gender integration in a sector such as agriculture/food security, climate/NRM, conflict/insecurity, democracy & governance, digital access/technology, economic growth, education, energy, GBV, global health, land rights, and WASH. The positions would be located in any USAID Washington DC or field-based USAID Missions.

Responsibilities:
These are illustrative responsibilities but can include the below tasks:

• Provide technical advice on the feasibility, appropriateness, and value of proposed activities or changes in activities.
• Provide support to direct hire staff in the technical aspects of design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of gender activities and helping facilitate the design process of acquisition and assistance awards.
• Provide advice to Missions and other Washington Operating Units on strategies, best practices, and current research and evidence in gender technical areas.
• Conduct gender analyses and assessments that inform policies, strategic approaches, and Country Development and Cooperation (CDCS) other strategies.
• Utilization and analysis of gender data.
• Support coordination with other donors, experts, civil society and community organizations, and host governments in gender technical areas.
• Technical advice on gender transformative approaches, localization and partnerships, and behavior change and gender norms programming.
• Support the monitoring, evaluation and learning of gender equality and gender integrated programming.

Qualifications:

• Relevant MA and 8 years of relevant professional experience or a Ph.D. and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Active or recently held US Secret-level security clearance (or higher).
• Technical expertise in provision of a plethora of gender expertise, analysis, assessments, gender integration, gender equality, gender empowerment, GESI and other gender-related expertise.
• Experience in gender integration in 1 or more of the following sectors: agriculture/food security, climate/NRM, conflict/insecurity, democracy & governance, digital access/technology, economic growth, education, energy, GBV, global health, land rights, and WASH.
• Prior experience supporting USAID in a similar position.
• Excellent client-facing skills, ability to build relationships and buy-in with a variety of USAID, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to be embedded within USAID Agency offices or bureaus worldwide.
• Excellent English language oral and written fluency.

Come join our energetic and innovative team! We offer you the opportunity to play a leading role in the growth of our company, work as part of a creative and committed team, and make a difference in the well-being of our world. To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com .

SI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please, no phone calls.