Gender / Women’s Economic Empowerment Specialist

Join the Sustainable Research and Development Center in Jordan as a Gender / Women’s Economic Empowerment Specialist to evaluate a programme aimed at enhancing women's economic participation.

• Provide technical expertise on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment throughout the evaluation.
• Contribute to development of the evaluation methodology, evaluation matrix, indicators, and data collection tools.
• Assess the relevance and effectiveness of programme approaches intended to strengthen women’s entrepreneurship and economic participation.
• Examine barriers and opportunities affecting women’s participation in heritage, tourism, entrepreneurship, and local economic activities.
• Conduct and/or support interviews, focus group discussions, and consultations with women beneficiaries, entrepreneurs, artisans, producers, programme stakeholders, and institutions.
• Assess participant experiences, perceived benefits, barriers to participation, market-access outcomes, and sustainability prospects.
• Analyse the extent to which the programme strengthened women’s skills, confidence, business readiness, networks, and access to economic opportunities.
• Assess the gender sensitivity, inclusiveness, accessibility, and appropriateness of programme interventions.
• Review gender-responsive approaches to municipal planning, tourism development, institutional capacity-building, and local development.
• Identify any unintended positive or negative effects affecting women or other groups.
• Contribute to analysis of sustainability, institutional ownership, and opportunities for strengthening future programmes.
• Support preparation of evaluation findings, conclusions, lessons learned, and recommendations.
• Ensure gender-sensitive, participatory, ethical, confidential, and inclusive approaches are applied during data collection and analysis.

• University degree in gender studies, social sciences, development studies, economics, business development, community development, or another relevant field.
• Demonstrated professional experience in:
• Women’s economic empowerment;
• Gender equality;
• Entrepreneurship development;
• Inclusive economic development;
• Community-based development or related fields.
• Proven experience applying gender-sensitive research, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience conducting stakeholder consultations, interviews, focus group discussions, and gender analysis.
• Demonstrated understanding of barriers affecting women’s participation in economic activities.
• Experience related to tourism, cultural heritage, local economic development, entrepreneurship, or women-led businesses is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and report-writing skills.
• Experience with development programmes implemented by international organizations, donors, NGOs, municipalities, or public institutions is an advantage.
• Experience in Jordan or the MENA region is desirable.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary evaluation team.