International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Consultant – Climate Resilience, Social Inclusion

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

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Location: Remote • 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

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Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree (master’s or PhD preferred) in Gender Studies, Development Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental Policy, or related social sciences.
  • At least 5–7 years of professional experience applying GESI frameworks in climate change, natural resource management, or water governance projects.
  • Proven track record of integrating GESI into large-scale, multi-stakeholder, donor-funded research or development programs.
  • Experience working with international research organizations, NGOs, or multilateral institutions.
  • Experience in building indexes is a plus.
  • Strong theoretical and applied knowledge of gender analysis frameworks, intersectionality, and social inclusion approaches.
  • Expertise in climate change adaptation, resilience-building, and/or water security, with demonstrable experience linking these with GESI.
  • Ability to design GESI-sensitive indicators and tools for monitoring and evaluation.
  • Strong facilitation and training skills to build institutional and partner capacity.
  • Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to produce high-quality publications and policy documents.
  • Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work effectively in diverse, multidisciplinary, and international teams.
  • Strong networking skills, including the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders across multiple time zones.
Benefits
  • This is an internationally recruited consultancy position, therefore individuals with relevant qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply.
  • IWMI believes that diversity powers our innovation, contributes to our excellence, and is critical to our mission. We offer a multicultural, multicolored, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary working environment. We are committed to building an inclusive organization that reflects our global character and prioritizes gender equity. We therefore strongly encourage applications from individuals of all cultures, races, ethnicities, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability statuses, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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Hard skills
GESI frameworksgender analysis frameworksclimate change adaptationresilience-buildingwater securitymonitoring and evaluationinclusive reportingindex buildingmethodologies developmenttechnical support
Soft skills
facilitation skillstraining skillscommunication skillswriting skillscross-cultural sensitivitynetworking skillsstakeholder engagementcapacity buildingteam collaborationpolicy influence
Certifications
advanced degree in Gender Studiesadvanced degree in Development Studiesadvanced degree in Sociologyadvanced degree in Anthropologyadvanced degree in Environmental Policy