Steadman Global Senior Consultant (Gender and Social Development)

The Position

Steadman Global seeks to hire the services of a well-qualified and experienced Senior Consultant Gender and Social Development to be responsible for the technical oversight, management, and successful delivery of projects across multiple sectors

Your key responsibilities are:

• Lead the design, planning, and implementation of Gender and Social Development projects for public institutions, private sector actors, and development partners.
• Design national or sectoral gender and social development frameworks aligned with global best practices and local contexts.
• Guide feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, and implementation roadmaps for environment and climate investments and transformation initiatives.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring delivery of technically sound, context-relevant, and timely outputs.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement processes, including government consultations, user research, capacity-building workshops, and co-creation labs.
• Lead the development of environment policy briefs, reports, toolkits, and technical guidelines for institutional use.
• Support gender and social development initiatives’ monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) and contribute to knowledge dissemination.
• Contribute to proposal writing, client negotiations, and business development efforts in the environment and climate change portfolio.
• Mentor junior consultants and provide quality assurance for technical outputs across environment-related assignments.
• Provide high-quality technical leadership and direction on multi-sectoral assignments, ensuring methodological rigor and context relevance.
• Coordinate and supervise multidisciplinary teams, manage project timelines and deliverables, and ensure adherence to quality standards.

Job Requirements

• A Master’s degree in Gender, Social Development, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of technical consulting experience in international development, with demonstrated ability to work across multiple sectors.
• Experience undertaking strategic assessment, business and development planning, feasibility assessments, project design, M&E, and economic or policy analysis.
• Familiarity with donor-funded programs (e.g., World Bank, AfDB, EU, UNDP, GIZ, USAID) and government-led initiatives.
• Strong writing, facilitation, and project management skills with an ability to lead high-stakes assignments under tight deadlines.

Application
Please send your current CV to skiconco@steadmanglobal.com before the end of day Tuesday, May 27th 2025