International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Consultant

• Developing and Adapting Research Tools to Capture and Reflect Gender and Inclusion Dimensions
• Ensure the Climate and Water Resilience frameworks incorporate gender-responsive and socially inclusive indicators.
• Lead, support, or review ongoing research to ensure gender and social inclusion aspects are adequately incorporated.
• Develop methodologies to assess how diverse groups experience water resilience under climate change stressors.
• Support the implementation of the gender strategy developed for the Water Resilience Tracker project.
• Capacity Strengthening & Technical Support
• Train project teams, researchers, and partners on social inclusion concepts (including gender), frameworks, and their application in climate–water research.
• Provide technical backstopping to country-level implementing partners on inclusive approaches.
• Train project teams and partners on inclusive reporting supported by evidence.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Policy Influence
• Engage with governments, NGOs, community-based organizations, and policy actors to promote inclusive water resilience strategies.
• Support knowledge-sharing platforms, dialogues, and events to highlight marginalized voices in water and climate governance.
• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)
• Develop and apply GESI-sensitive monitoring frameworks to measure project impact.
• Document lessons learned, case studies, and success stories of inclusive resilience-building.
• Knowledge Generation & Communication
• Produce high-quality publications, policy briefs, and research outputs focusing on GESI in climate change and water resilience.
• Contribute to donor reports, ensuring that social inclusion-related achievements and challenges are well articulated.

Consultant – Climate Resilience, Social Inclusion

• Responsible for the complete design, execution, and reporting of the Jahez baseline evaluation, ensuring methodological rigor and alignment with project objectives.
• Coordinate closely with the Jahez Project Management Team and implementing partners (including UK Met Office, RSS, and CAN Jordan) throughout all phases of the evaluation.
• Inception phase: conduct desk review of project documents and literature, develop evaluation design, sampling strategy, tools, and work plan, and submit an Inception Report for review and approval.
• Field data collection: lead household surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), and key informant interviews (KIIs) in Irbid, Ramtha, and Al Azraq; oversee observation and documentation of environmental and institutional contexts.
• Data analysis and reporting: analyze quantitative and qualitative data, ensure triangulation of findings, prepare and submit Draft Baseline Report, present results to the Project Management Team and FCDO, integrate feedback and submit Final Baseline Report with indicator tables, findings, and recommendations, and deliver a stakeholder presentation.
• Tool development: develop and finalize survey tools aligned with FCDO Key Performance Indicator 4 and Jahez resilience indices; ensure tools and analysis integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GEDSI) dimensions.
• Ethical standards: uphold informed consent, confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, and safeguarding; ensure safe participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
• Maintain professional autonomy, independence, and objectivity in conducting the evaluation and presenting findings.
• Collaborate with IWMI, RSS, and CAN Jordan for access to data, stakeholders, and communities while retaining professional autonomy.
• Timeline management: complete the baseline evaluation within one month after inception approval, adhering to specified deliverables and timeline.

Consultant – Climate Resilience, Social Inclusion

Consultant, Baseline Evaluation