Consultant

Job Description

Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization working for the protection and promotion of human rights. Established in 1991, WOREC is one of the leading national organizations that works to prevent violence against women, its causes and consequences, and ensures the economic, social, and cultural well-being of women and other marginalized groups by promoting their access to rights and social justice. WOREC started working with an objective to prevent trafficking in women and children and advocate for the rights of survivors, whereas in the course of work, with the realization that trafficking is one among various other outcomes of women’s rights violations, WOREC started to work from the broader perspective for women’s right. Being an organization guided by feminist values, WOREC believes that empowering women to control their bodies, sexuality, and reproduction is a key to enabling women to exercise their rights.

WOREC is implementing Community-based Intervention for Enabling Mobilization of Returnee Migrant Workers for their Reintegration in Province 1 (Morang and Sunsari districts) in financial cooperation with ILO Nepal.

Objective of the project;

To contribute to enhance employability of individuals who have returned to Nepal due to loss of opportunities (caused by the pandemic), in support of their economic reintegration.

Immediate objective

At the end of the project, the immediate objectives would be as follows:

Objective 1 (O1): Strengthen public and private sector dialogue to address labour market challenges facing returnee migrants.

Objective 2 (O2): Improve capacities of relevant stakeholders at municipality level for registration of returnee migrants and their skills profiling.

Objective 3 (O3): Improve labour market transition of returnee migrant workers through improving their access to basic employment services, especially vocational counselling, career advice and guidance, and job matching.

Objective 4 (O4):  Improve employment of men and women returnees through up-skilling, re-skilling, skills certification and comprehensive post training support for those interested in self-employment.

In this connection we are hiring a Consultant to carry out necessary activities. 

• Desk review on migration, migrant workers, labor market opportunities and challenges and district’s plan and provisions for returnee migrant workers along with reintegration schemes of the local level government
• Prepare concept note and guideline for dialogue mechanism with the local government and other stakeholders.
• Mapping of concerned stakeholders of Morang and Sunsari district including Vocational Training Institutions
• Facilitate workshop on key stakeholders’ endorsement of the mechanism
•  in Morang and Sunsari districts
• Report submission to WOREC

Required Qualification & Experience

• Minimum of university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in law, social science, development studies, migration, management or related areas
• Minimum 5 years of experience on migration management training, knowledgeable on issues of returnee migrants workers, social-economic integration process, rights of migrant workers and returnee migrant workers, vocational education.
•  Experienced on preparing  guideline for dialogue mechanism , Experience of working with district level stakeholders facilitating of workshops and meetings
• Familiar about labor migration,  women workers, right to mobility, decent work and migrants’ reintegration
• Excellent command and knowledge of speaking and writing Nepali and English.

 Duration of the consultancy: 15 days

How to Apply

Eligible consultant can send an updated CV and a sample of previous service by to ics@worecnepal.org by 22nd June 2022.