Job Purpose
The Technical Expert on Gender statistics provides senior technical expertise across ICF’s gender equality portfolio, with a primary focus on gender statistics and gender-equality measurement, including GBV-related statistical work.
The role combines deep subject-matter expertise in gender statistics with technical leadership and influence, ensuring the quality, credibility, and methodological robustness of ICF’s gender equality work. The postholder leads complex technical components across assignments, advises project teams and clients on gender statistics and measurement approaches, and contributes to portfolio development and capture activities that strengthen ICF’s gender equality offer, including opportunities related to data systems, indicators, monitoring frameworks, evaluation and specialised gender data fields such as GBV statistics. In addition, the scope of work may also extend to other grounds of discrimination, such as disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or age, as well as exploring the intersections between these areas to ensure a comprehensive approach to equality measurement in ICF’s work for EU institutions.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Contribution (gender statistics)
o Study design and methodological frameworks
o Indicator definition, refinement, and validation
o Quantitative data collection, harmonisation, and quality assurance
o Analysis of equality gaps, time-series trends, and cross-country comparisons
o Evaluation frameworks integrating gender statistics
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex or sensitive methodological issues.
• Ensure consistency, comparability, and quality across framework deliverables in line with EIGE requirements.
Quality Assurance & Methodological Oversight
• Provide technical quality assurance of statistical outputs, analytical products, and methodological tools.
• Review and approve research designs, data-processing methods, and analytical models.
• Ensure comparability and coherence of evidence across countries, time periods, and assignments.
• Drive continuous improvement of ICF’s statistical standards and internal guidelines for gender-related measurement.
Portfolio Development & Business Growth
In line with ICF’s expectations, the role contributes to organisational growth by:
• Leading and/or contributing to business development and capture activities related to gender statistics, gender equality, and related thematic areas.
• Providing senior technical input to bids, proposals, and capture strategies.
• Using evidence and learning from the EIGE framework to strengthen ICF’s market positioning as a leader in gender statistics.
• Advising on opportunities to expand ICF’s work in gender data ecosystem and the wider antidiscrimination framework, strengthening, data innovation, and evidence-based policymaking.
Thought Leadership & External Engagement
• Represent ICF as a technical expert in gender statistics with clients, partners, and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to thought leadership outputs, learning products, and policy-relevant publications.
• Maintain awareness of emerging developments in equality data, indicators, measurement techniques, data sources, and international standards.
• Build and sustain professional networks relevant to gender statistics, gender and equality data systems.
Technical Stewardship & Knowledge Sharing
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to researchers, analysts, and consultants working on gender-equality data and statistics.
• Support internal capacity strengthening on gender statistics, measurement frameworks, and quantitative methods.
• Contribute to internal communities of practice and cross-team collaboration.
• Share learning and best practice across projects and teams.
Decision-Making & Autonomy
• Operate with significant autonomy, setting technical direction within agreed strategic objectives.
• Exercise judgement on complex methodological, ethical, and strategic issues.
• Be accountable for the technical credibility and reputation of ICF’s gender statistics work.
• Inform senior leadership decisions through expert insight on gender data, evidence trends and market opportunities.
Required Qualifications & Experience
• Advanced postgraduate qualification (Master’s or PhD preferred) in statistics, gender studies, social sciences, public policy, public health, or a related field.
• Extensive senior-level experience (typically 12–15+ years) in gender statistics, gender indicators, quantitative research, evaluation and policy analysis, ideally including experience with GBV-related data and indicators.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex, multi-country research or evaluation programmes.
• Strong familiarity with EU institutions and gender statistics framework (including EIGE, Eurostat, UN Women, OECD, UNECE, or comparable bodies).
• Proven ability to influence policy, strategy, and programme design through high-quality evidence.
Working at ICF
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