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Consultancy - Statistics and Analysis - Equality Insights - Flexible location

International Women's Development Agency
  • Fixed term agreement: commencing late Feb/early March 2021; concluding 30 November 2022
  • Approximately 30 hours per week for 185 days per calendar year
  • Remotely-based in timezone +/- 5 AEDST

WHO ARE WE?

IWDA is an Australia-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations primarily in Asia and the Pacific and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

Beyond the impact we have in the world, we are known for our supportive, friendly and inclusive team culture. Working with IWDA sees you working alongside a team of intelligent, hard working and passionate women who live our values of Feminism, Accountability, Collaboration and Transformation every day.

EQUALITY INSIGHTS

Equality Insights is a flagship program of IWDA that aims to redefine how poverty is understood and measured in order to inspire wider change in measurement standards and approaches, and in gender equality outcomes. Built on more than 12 years of research and refinement, Equality Insights deploys a gender-sensitive, individual-level survey that asks questions about many aspects of life to better understand how poverty is experienced by men and women. The result is an evidence base of (otherwise invisible) insights to inspire and enable targeted and transformative change.

Equality Insights collects individual-level data about fifteen dimensions of life plus assets from all adults in a household. It can provide users with new insights into multidimensional deprivations experienced by populations of interest, beyond income and monetary wealth. It offers insights into material, social, economic, environmental, and political factors shaping poverty and inequality.

CONSULTANCY OVERVIEW

IWDA is seeking a highly able Statistics and Analysis Consultant to contribute their skills and experience to the program over the next 19 months. Providers based outside of Australia and without Australian work rights are eligible if they can be engaged as a registered business.

Over the next two years (2021-2022), IWDA will implement a program of work to improve the gender equality outcomes of COVID-19 recovery in the Pacific through increasing the availability of data that makes the specific circumstances of women visible, and supporting that data to be used for gender-responsive planning, programming, advocacy and resource allocations. This will involve the development of a new Equality Insights survey variant, Equality Insights Rapid, that is brief and can be implemented without face-to-face enumeration; collection and analysis of data using the new survey; and engagement with stakeholders to support use of data to inform gender-responsive action.

The Statistics and Analysis Consultant will make key contributions to four action areas that are a focus for the Equality Insights program over the next two years:

  1. Improved evidence base for implementing COVID-19 recovery that advances gender equality in selected Pacific countries
  2. Decision-makers and change agents can access and are using Equality Insights Rapid data
  3. Policy, programming, advocacy and/or resource allocations for COVID recovery is informed by Equality Insights Rapid data in at least two countries
  4. Regional actors recognise and use Equality Insights data and/or tools

CONSULTANCY OBJECTIVES

The objectives of consultancy are to:

  1. Provide the Equality Insights team with access to high level skills and experience in statistics and analysis, and experience in quantitative survey design in a development cooperation context
  2. Adapt the existing Equality Insights survey tool and method for delivery in the COVID-19 environment, ensuring robustness and retaining fidelity to the existing conceptual foundations
  3. Oversee individual-level, inclusive, intersectional and gender-sensitive data through the Rapid variant in two Pacific countries
  4. Analyse the resulting data
  5. Develop technical documentation about the Equality InsightsRapid
  6. Contribute to high quality communications about Equality Insights including peer reviewed publications.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Note: High level priorities will be confirmed via periodic Work Orders (we anticipate doing this on a six-monthly basis). The Consultant/Provider will confirm ongoing priorities and timing via a monthly work plan.

  1. Lead the process of adapting the existing Equality Insights survey tool and method for delivery in the COVID-19 environment, building on the existing Equality Insights survey, method, data and analysis. This includes:
    1. Design the approach to development of the Rapid survey variant the survey, working with the Equality Insights team and the Global Technical Advisory Group (GTAG) to deliver this in the first half of 2021, maintaining robustness and credibility; Consider the potential to use multiple modes of survey delivery;
    2. Engage with the GTAG to test ideas and receive feedback;
    3. Develop an appropriate scoring method;
    4. Design a standard analysis plan for Equality Insights Rapid data and develop associated code for statistical analysis in R; and
    5. Produce a methodology update to communicate rationale and decisions and enable external engagement.
  2. Undertake dimension and composite index construction, testing methodologies and exercising judgment in selection of methods.
  3. Oversee and direct the digitising and testing of the survey, including adaptation for multiple modalities of collection as required (for example, phone survey, online survey).
  4. Oversee data collection processes, remotely, in at least 2 countries in the time period, supporting the development and delivery of training for data collectors, where relevant, and ensuring quality control in data collection processes. Should the Consultant/Provider be based in a country in the Pacific where data collection is to be undertaken, more direct engagement may be feasible, depending on the context.
  5. Produce standard statistical analysis from the data, including reports and briefs, being responsive to stakeholder-directed priority areas of analysis.
  6. Lead engagement with the technology provider to deliver an online platform that makes the data accessible to stakeholders while maintaining privacy and security.
  7. Where necessary, engage with additional statistical consultant/s, including providing expert technical advice, setting priorities, managing workflow, and providing quality control, working in collaboration with the Data Use and Engagement Manager to ensure efficient and effective use of available resources.
  8. Contribute to communication and dissemination of research findings, including through inputs to working papers and articles published through peer-reviewed sources.
  9. Contribute to Equality Insights team processes, including planning; monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL); and budget planning and development.

CONSULTANCY REQUIREMENTS

The Consultant/Provider should possess the following skills and experience:

Essential

  1. Completed postgraduate level university qualification in statistics or related discipline
  2. Proven experience conducting data collection
  3. Demonstrated experience leading statistical data analysis with complex data sets, including familiarity with relevant analysis techniques
  4. Strong knowledge of and experience with R
  5. Knowledge of core Equality Insights-relevant concepts and technical requirements such as composite indices
  6. Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, ensuring data is accurate, thoroughly and appropriately analysed, and complies with data security requirements
  7. Ability to work autonomously under general direction
  8. High level written communication skills including communicating technical information to specialist and non-specialist audiences
  9. Previous experience collaborating with stakeholders within and external to an organisation, and across hierarchies
  10. Excellent time management and track record of delivering projects on-time and budget.

Desirable

  1. Previous experience working with gender data
  2. Previous experience with surveys using modalities under consideration for Equality Insights Rapid (e.g. phone interviews, online questionnaires, mailed questionnaires, text messages)
  3. Applications from candidates based in the Pacific will be highly valued.

To discuss the role please contact Joanna Pradela, Director Knowledge Translation and Equality Insights to set up a time: [email protected] using the subject line: Consultancy - Statistics and Analysis - Equality Insights enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Candidates are invited to download the Terms of Reference and Template Cover Letter for Consultancy attached below.

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