TECHNICAL ADVISOR, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, MARKET SYSTEMS

JOB SUMMARY:

CARE’s Program, Strategy, and Innovation (PSI) unit houses CARE’s global program teams, who support country offices implementing programs that impact millions of women and girls each year in over 90 countries around the world. By 2030, CARE’s strategy is to support 200 million people to overcome poverty and social injustice, the majority women and girls. 

Across PSI, CARE’s economic growth programming aims to achieve women’s equal access and control over economic resources and opportunities by changing social structures and market systems. CARE aims to raise the bar for the sector by maximizing economic benefit to women per donor dollar, while ensuring social outcomes and structural change through gender-transformative design.

The Technical Advisor, Economic Analysis, will analyze programmatic and cost data to build evidence for our the most promising market systems interventions. This role will work with global colleagues, country office teams, and external research partners. Join us to foster best practices across implementing teams and contribute to strategy, branding, and fundraising laser-focused on the hopes and needs of women and girls.

This is a remote role ideally based in Nairobi or other African countries. Candidates will be required to work at least a half day between the working hours of 13:00 to 17:00 UTC and take meetings outside of normal working hours when necessary. Candidates must possess work authorization in their location of work.

There is no perfect candidate for this role. We are seeking dedicated and passionate individuals who want to spend their days improving gender equality with brilliant and dynamic colleagues. We highly encourage candidates with unconventional or diverse backgrounds and those without all qualifications to apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Economic Research and Learning

Lead quantitative modeling on project outcomes through cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), owning the development and revision of models, assumptions, and outputs Conduct evidence and literature reviews, interpret findings to extract impact estimates and model inputs, and engage with colleagues and external experts to validate model design and quantitative outputs Collaborate with global and country finance and project colleagues to gather, structure, and analyze financial and cost data Build the evidence base for CARE’s work on gender-transformative market systems programming, including correlational or causational research on economic outcomes and improvements in women’s agency, decision-making, confidence, quality of life, etc. Advance our work in cash benchmarking through synthesis of internal data and external evidence

Country Office Support and Capacity Building

Ensure adoption of measurement standards for economic and gender metrics at regional, country, and project levels and update global guidance and standards based on feedback and learning Support finance and technical colleagues at country and global levels to understand and implement cost analysis, economic analysis, and cash benchmarking in project MEL workstreams and proposal development Serve as a resource and coach for teams to deepen measurement approaches and expand impact in market systems programming across CARE

Partnerships and Thought Leadership

Produce reports, analysis, and data visualizations to socialize and make sense of analytic outputs Manage research partnerships with consultants, evaluation firms, and academic institutions and ensure timely and high-quality research outputs Work with marketing, communications, and thought leadership colleagues to jointly develop case studies, learning briefs, and other technical documentation Survey external approaches to gender-transformative economic analysis and articulate sectoral gaps and opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS:

Master’s degree in public policy, economics, international development, business administration, finance or similar degree program, or equivalent combination of education and professional experience Strong training in methods of economic analysis, especially cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis Thorough grounding in methods of program evaluation, including logic models and results frameworks Strong familiarity with theories and programming for gender equality 5 to 7 years of progressive experience in international development, social sector, or the private sector, preferably in economic development, market systems, or the equivalent Experience managing, supporting, or using the results of rigorous quantitative research, evaluation, and program monitoring  Demonstrated experience conducting cost analysis, budgetary analysis, financial modeling, or equivalent accounting analysis Experience successfully managing projects and solving problems remotely with distributed teams High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Professional fluency in English and excellent written proficiency