HANZ Consulting is currently recruiting for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded private health sector evaluation project in Ethiopia. The project conducts an evaluation of the role and the potential of the private health sector in Ethiopia to increase access to family planning services. The position holders will closely work with HANZ team and Senior Consultants.

Major duties & responsibilities

• Serve as an adviser to research team on gender integration and inclusion to design research and evaluation, evaluation objectives, data collection instruments and analysis with a gender and inclusion lens.
• Facilitate gender integration and inclusion in research including in the planning of workshops and co-develop gender integration action plan;
• Guide the processes of co-creation an organizational culture that is inclusive, promotes equity, and supports positive gender dynamics;
• Provide guidance on adaptation of research and evaluation protocol and technical materials for the target audiences and testing them;
• Support the use of the Gender Integration by providing context for each of the evaluation questions to identify opportunities for gender integration within an evaluation of the role and potential of private sector to increase access to family planning methods in Ethiopia;
• Advance gender equality and/or women and girls’ empowerment by ensuring and integrating gender perspective to the evaluation questions, objectives, analysis and report writing;
• Contribute to the reduction of gender barriers and/or gender gaps in access to family planning services; particularly from the private sector (if any);
• Support gender analysis as a critical and systematic examination of differences in the constraints and opportunities available to an individual or group of individuals based on their sex, gender, and/or other markers to identify gender gaps and barriers, as well as sources and consequences of inequalities in terms of accessing family planning services from the private health sector.

Job Requirements

• Masters’ Degree is required in a related field.
• Minimum of 10+ years of general work experience, and 6+ years’ experience in integrating gender into research.,
• Demonstrated experience on gender-sensitivity in research and evaluation