Overview
The consultant will be responsible for ensuring the smooth technical implementation of the energy efficiency component of a project in Armenia, focusing on beneficiary identification and selection for woodstove distribution.
Key Responsibilities
- Confirm and operationalize beneficiary eligibility, prioritization, and vulnerability criteria.
- Review and analyze available household socio-economic and poverty data.
- Provide technical support in developing a transparent and verifiable beneficiary selection methodology.
- Establish procedures for identifying and verifying eligible households.
- Ensure the integration of gender-responsive targeting measures.
- Design and oversee a beneficiary outreach and consultation process.
- Support coordination with women's organizations.
- Define household categorization and vulnerability assessment approaches.
- Assess and recommend appropriate support modalities and beneficiary co-financing mechanisms.
- Support senior colleagues in developing data collection tools and beneficiary registration forms.
- Support the establishment of a transparent beneficiary validation process.
- Prepare beneficiary selection reports and recommendations.
- Develop procedures to ensure transparency, accountability, and prevention of inclusion/exclusion errors.
- Contribute to the design of monitoring indicators and reporting frameworks.
- Provide technical guidance during implementation and support the resolution of beneficiary selection grievances.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in socio-economic assessments, household analysis, poverty analysis, social protection, rural development, or community-based development projects.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing beneficiary targeting and selection methodologies for development projects, grant schemes, subsidy programs, or social assistance interventions.
- Proven experience working with vulnerable populations, including low-income households, women-headed households, and rural communities.
- Experience conducting socio-economic analyses and utilizing household, poverty, demographic, or social protection data for program design and targeting purposes.
- Demonstrated experience working with government institutions, municipalities, national statistical agencies, and civil society organizations.
- Experience developing beneficiary databases, data collection tools, eligibility verification procedures, and targeting frameworks.
- Familiarity with grievance redress, beneficiary validation, and accountability mechanisms in donor-funded projects.
- Experience working on projects financed by international development partners (e.g., GCF, GEF, UN, EU, World Bank, GIZ, or similar organizations) is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience in procurement processes, including drafting of technical specifications, tender documentation, and technical evaluation of bids.
- Experience working on projects implemented by international organizations (FAO, UNDP, EU, GCF-funded projects, or similar) is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with Armenia’s socio-economic environment, rural context, or relevant regulatory frameworks is an asset.
- Additional training or certification in social inclusion, poverty analysis, gender studies, monitoring and evaluation, or data analysis is an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or higher) in Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Rural Development, Sociology, Statistics, Social Protection, or a related field.
