Business models for impact: resourcing for sustainable development and delivery (consultancy)

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International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Business development
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: AUD 30,000 AUD / Budget
  • Deadline: 03/05/2026
  • Location: Australia
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INTRODUCTION
IWDA is an Australian-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations primarily in Asia and the Pacific and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

Equality Insights is a systemic change program focused on addressing gender-unaware poverty and inequality measurement and data collection methodologies that underpin global efforts to understand and respond to poverty and gender inequality. Alongside development of a world-leading individual-level measure of multidimensional poverty and inequality and an associated survey instrument generating intersectional data, the Equality Insights program engages with the political economy of global data standards to influence recognition of, and demand for, individual-level gender-sensitive and inclusive measurement.

CONSULTANCY BACKGROUND
This consultancy is designed to assess viability of the program’s current business model in the context of the current funding environment for overseas development assistance and resourcing for development data. The assessment will consider the adequacy and sustainability of the program’s current business / resourcing model in this context, compared to alternatives previously considered by the program, and generate other options. The expected deliverable is a propositional way forward for sustainable resourcing models and approaches that will allow us to stabilise and enhance the value that has been created over 15 years, while also maximising delivery against the interest in, and emergent pipeline for, Equality Insights.
The emphasis of this consultancy is on recommendations for the future, including detailed pathways forward to a fit-for-purpose model and approach to resourcing, including initial overview of associated scaffolding requirements as relevant (e.g., governance arrangements, policies, legal and regulatory steps).


CONSULTANCY OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this consultancy are to:
  1. Snapshot the development data funding landscape, considering both traditional and non-traditional funders, to ascertain the viability of the existing business model;
  2. Assess those findings against existing internal work regarding potential, alternative structures for ongoing impact;
  3. Consider business models that are feasible for the program’s goals, and operational in the current funding environment, and outline at least two recommended options, in addition to the current model should this be identified as a recommended option and detail strengths in the current context ;
  4. Design and propose a next-steps pathway for one of the business models (as determined by the Equality Insights team) that would enable a transition and to sustain impact, with financial sustainability at the core.

REQUIREMENTS
The consultant(s) should possess the following skills and experience:
  • Good knowledge of, and/or experience in, the data (and gender data) funding landscape
  • Knowledge and prior experience using business model tools and frameworks to create viable models for implementation
  • Strong research, evaluation and analysis experience
  • Excellent attention to detail and communication skills 
  • History of innovative thinking and problem-solving including finding ‘out of the box’ solutions

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