Consultancy service for Labour System Impact Assessment on JobTech Ecosystem Interventions: A Study on Systemic Change and Youth Employment Outcomes

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Deadline: October 28, 2025

Job Description

2.3. Assessing the Systemic Changes in digital job matching services

The consultant will assess the digital job matching services and summarises the system with respect to digital job matching services, gig work, and replicability and sustainability of the interventions and comes up with the strategic recommendations.

Questions to guide the articulation of changes include:

Key focus areas to address:

What are the major contributions of the LIWAY’s digital job matching interventions in influencing the overall employment ecosystem? In what ways are the LIWAY interventions contributing to the employment ecosystem?
What is the impact of LIWAY’s digital job matching interventions on implementing partners/service providers and other non- partners/non-service providers? In what ways are the LIWAY labour infrastructure contributing to the digital job matching services, the overall ecosystem and digital economy of the country?
What is the job matching trends and how is the digital job matching services different from the conventional matching services.
How effective is the accessibility and inclusivity of the digital job matching system for women and youths, particularly in terms of securing employment for these groups?
What is the trend for sector diversification, and which sectors are usually in demand through the digital job matching platform.
Which stakeholders and main actors are involved in digital job matching services and how do they function within the ecosystem.
What is the aspiration of the digital job matching service providers for the future and how do they expect the ecosystem to support their services.
What systemic changes are observed so far, how are business model services expanded, crowded-in, and how do other market actors responded and how and why are other similar market actors likely to replicate the business model, and who benefits from these adaptations and expansions.
What are the economic and social impacts of the job tech interventions on women and youth?
What strategies should be implemented to improve accessibility, and inclusiveness of job matching platforms for women and youths and improve the business enabling environment including regulations, reforms, etc?

About You

Interested consultants (individuals or firms) are expected to meet the following requirements:

Educational Background: A Masters in a relevant field such as Development Studies, Market Systems Development, Social Science, International Development, or other related social sciences.

Demonstrated Experience:

A proven track record in conducting comprehensive studies and assessments for development programs, particularly in the fields of market systems development (MSD), proven experiences on Monitoring and result measurement for MSD programming, youth and women’s economic empowerment, and private sector engagement.

Substantial experience in the Ethiopian context, with an in-depth understanding of the labour market, ecosystem, and the policy environment related to employment.

Team Capacity: Ability to mobilize and lead a multi-disciplinary team with combined expertise covering the key assessment areas of the assignment, experienced team member on measurement for MSD programming preferably a DCED certified. The CVs submitted must show relevant knowledge and experience in economic empowerment of youth and women, development programs, experience working on Ethiopian labour sector and engagement within the digital economy.

Research Skills: Proven experience and expertise in designing and implementing mixed-methods research, including both qualitative (interviews, FGDs) and quantitative data collection and in-depth qualitative analysis.

Language Proficiency: Excellent written and spoken proficiency in both English and Amharic.

Ethical Standards: Must adhere to SNV policies, principles, and core values, including a commitment to ethical standards and a code of conduct.

Required Skills

Research and Data analysis

How to Apply

Submission Guideline and Application submission date:

Interested and qualified applicants who meet the qualification stated above, should submit their proposals as indicated below.

Complete ToR can be Found from the below link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BlFTQonm3xo0QROMWFWxJzgpWosU_Fva/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100196715550210544788&rtpof=true&sd=true

Title of the specific assignment, “Labour System Impact Assessment on JobTech Ecosystem Interventions: A Study on Systemic Change and Youth Employment Outcomes,” should be mentioned in the envelop/email subject. SNV will not be responsible for proposals submitted without indicating title of the assignment on the envelope or subject of the email.

Both the Technical and Financial proposals should be submitted in a separate email to: ettenders@snv.org. or a separate envelope for those who are submitting in person. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in automatic rejection of the bid.

SNV will not be responsible for proposals submitted without indicating the title of the assignment (“Labour System Impact Assessment on JobTech Ecosystem Interventions: A Study on Systemic Change and Youth Employment Outcomes”) on the subject of the email/envelop.

Proposals must be received by SNV Addis Ababa office to the address below no later than October 28, 2025, 17:00 (5:00PM) close of business.

All submissions should be sent to: Via email: ettenders@snv.org or must be submitted in person.

All physical submissions should be sent to: SNV Ethiopia, Mexico Sar Bet Road Next to African Union P.O. Box 40675, Addis Ababa | Ethiopia Fax + 251 (0) 11 616 6252 Tele + 251 (0) 11 616 6232 or via <ettenders@snv.org>.

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