Technical Advisor: Gender, Safeguarding & Inclusion – Proposal Recruitment Full Time NEW

Position Title: Technical Advisor: Gender, Safeguarding & Inclusion – Proposal Recruitment

Department: Economic Empowerment

Reporting To: Program Lead

Required Number of position – One

Direct Reports:

Duty Station: Head Office/Addis Ababa

Remuneration: As per the organization pay scale plus other PSI/Ethiopia staff benefits

Application Deadline: July 10, 2025.

This is proposal-based recruitment, and all subsequent steps in the hiring process will be contingent upon award of the project

Who we are?

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non‐profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by marketing affordable products and services that range from mosquito nets to contraceptives to HIV testing. We are a $560m enterprise based in Washington, DC, operating in the private and public sectors in more than 65 countries.

Join us!

There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.

PSI/Ethiopia wants to reimagine healthcare, put the consumer at the center, and whenever possible, bring quality care to the front door. We achieve health impact in Ethiopia by working with both government and private partners and harvesting technology innovation to bring quality care closer to communities, schools, and homes. We empower consumers by including them in the design of healthcare solutions, offering them more healthcare choices, and helping them to have a voice in influencing national priorities. We work with all market actors in the health system to understand their needs, designing and delivering solutions so that market systems can sustainably serve consumers for the long term, helping to support the Government of Ethiopia in achieving Universal Health Coverage.

We are looking for a passionate, dedicated, and results- driven Technical Advisor: Gender, Safeguarding and Inclusion to mainstream inclusive and equitable practices across the economic empowerment program, ensuring that interventions not only promote economic growth but also address gender and disability inequalities, and foster a safe and enabling environment for all participants. The Advisor will closely work with the economic empowerment program team to ensure that interventions apply best practices in gender equality and women’s economic empowerment; identify entry points for increasing participation of women and girls in decision-making; and create opportunities for women, people with disabilities, and youth to benefit from workforce development.

Sounds like you? Read on!

Key responsibilities

• Ensure that gender, safeguarding, and social inclusion are well integrated and mainstreamed across all aspects of the project, including design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, staffing, training, and partnership strategies.
• Provide guidance on technical approaches and innovations to enhance impact on women-led businesses, women in leadership, and women’s participation in decision-making at all levels.
• Provide technical input to ensure project performance indicators reflect progress on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive outcomes.
• Conduct gender, safeguarding, and social inclusion assessments, reviews, and audits to identify areas of improvement and strategies to increase the involvement of women, youth, and marginalized populations in project activities.
• Provide strategic technical guidance on gender and inclusion integration to project staff, implementing partners, government stakeholders, and local institutions.
• Develop staff capacity to integrate gender and social inclusion into programmatic and government-led initiatives and represent PSI as a thought leader in inclusive programming in Ethiopia.
• Work closely with the monitoring, evaluation, and learning team to ensure inclusive data collection, gender-disaggregated analysis, and reporting against inclusion indicators.
• Identify and document successful practices that advance gender and inclusion outcomes for use in publications, communication materials, and knowledge-sharing forums.
• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of organizational policies, procedures, and response mechanisms related to gender, safeguarding, and inclusion.
• Coordinate with other technical advisors (e.g., Business Development) to ensure inclusive design and implementation of interventions across the economic empowerment strategy.

Qualification and Experience:

• At least six (6) years with master’s degree or eight (8) years of experience with first degree in public health, sociology, gender studies, social and behavioural science or other relevant disciplines.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources.
• Proven technical expertise in addressing harmful gender norms, preventing, and responding to gender-based violence, reducing vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women, and constructive engagement of men and boys, as applied to very poor and highly vulnerable settings.
• Familiarity with safeguarding standards and experience overseeing incident response protocols is an asset.
• Experience providing technical coaching and mentorship to colleagues.
• Ability to write, compile and/or edit quality learning documents
• Proficient in English and Amharic languages, both written and verbal communication Willingness to travel within Ethiopia.