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Job Description
Overview
Banyan Global is an international development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market approaches for a broad and lasting impact. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with staff working in a number of developing countries. Banyan Global operates seamlessly within six practice areas: finance and investment, enterprise development, health, gender, youth, and evaluation and learning.
Banyan Global is implementing the U.S. Agency for International Development Partnerships for Productivity (USAID PADU) Activity in Indonesia. The five-year Activity, initiated in FY23, aims to enhance private sector investment in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions through partnerships with private sector firms and government-run vocational training centers called Balai Latihan Kerja (BLKs). The key objectives of the Activity are:
- Increase and strengthen partnerships between private sector and BLKs to implement market-driven and inclusive vocational training programs and
- Improve BLK strategic partnership institutional capacity to implement market-driven and inclusive vocational training programs.
Banyan Global is recruiting for a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) consultant to provide short-term technical assistance for up to 25 days of LOE.
Responsibilities
The GESI Consultant will work in close collaboration with the USAID PADU project team providing short-term technical assistance on:
- Developing project-level GESI analysis to assess constraints and opportunities to integrate attention to gender issues and social inclusion in the project, key gender inequalities and how the project can narrow or close gender gaps. Specifically, the GESI analysis identifies the specific gender and/or inclusion gaps relevant to vocational training and employment as well as enactment in laws that protect workers’ rights are required to close the gender gap and promote inclusivity in the workforce. Across data collection and management, all result and finding must be aligned with all USAID policies and strategies of ADS 205, including the 2012 Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy, Youth in Development Policy.”
- Developing project-level Gender and Inclusive Development Action Plan (GIDAP) that incorporates interventions that address and reduce the inequities and challenges identified from the GESI analysis. This includes, but is not limited to, specific interventions with BLKs to address the underlying drivers of exclusion of women and other marginalized groups (youth, people with disabilities, the poorest, and the most vulnerable) in their training programming.
Banyan Global HQ’s PM will provide technical and administrative oversight of the GESI Consultant, in collaboration with USAID PADU MEL Manager, to ensure quality and efficiency of all deliverables.
The work to be conducted under this consultancy is expected to be a hybrid approach with remote work as well as travel within Indonesia to target provinces based on the agreed consultancy workplan.
The consultant will work in close collaboration with the USAID PADU PM and MEL Manager and with technical oversight and will contribute to the completion of the deliverables listed below. The LOE is anticipated to be no more than 25 days.
Qualifications
MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in sociology, anthropology, gender studies, international development, or a relevant social science field required; master’s degree preferred.
- At least 10 years of experience in economic and social analysis, design and/or implementation including gender and social inclusion analysis under a donor program, USAID experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in GESI integration in one or more of the technical and sector areas of economic growth, workforce development, private sector engagement, education, or positive youth development.
- Experience designing and leading desk reviews and qualitative research, including developing research tools and methods for organizing analytical findings. Experience with project monitoring, data analysis, and project evaluation.
- Excellent, detail-oriented writing skills and experience consolidating feedback and edits from many reviewers.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesian. Ability to communicate diplomatically and clearly with clients and local stakeholders.
- Must have the ability to work in Indonesia with domestic travel.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in the Indonesian context.
- USAID Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) or USAID Activity-level gender analysis experience.
- Familiarity with USAID strategic planning and program management.
Banyan Global is committed to diversity and inclusion in our workforce. We do not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender expression. We recognize the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace and intentionally strive for diversity and inclusion at all organizational levels.
About the Organization
Banyan Global is a small, women-owned development consulting firm, founded on the principle that integrating expertise and experience from the development community and private sector will achieve a broad and lasting impact. Through market-driven, business approaches, Banyan Global works with the private sector, civil society, and government to improve livelihoods, build markets, and promote efficient resource allocation in developing and transitional economies. Banyan Global operates seamlessly within four practice areas: health sector development, microfinance, enterprise development, and financial sector development. Gender is a cross-cutting area of expertise.
Banyan Global brings together a unique team of professionals with experience in international development and the private sector. Banyan Global provides advisory, policy, and regulatory services; program management; technical assistance and training; and research and evaluation. Banyan Global also provides niche expertise in gender and post-conflict. Banyan Global's clients include leading bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, regional development banks, foundations, not-for-profit organizations, business, and industry. Banyan Global holds a significant portfolio of subcontracts for USAID-funded work and has worked in more than 35 countries, serving clients in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
