Training Officer

Global Fairness Initiative

The Global Fairness Initiative promotes a more equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world’s working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets, and balanced public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty.Since 2002, GFI has partnered with hundreds of marginalized working communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia to enhance economic opportunities and build sustainable livelihoods. In Nepal, Over 200,000 workers, of whom as many as 32,000 are children, labor in unhealthy and unsafe conditions in Nepal’s brick kilns. The informal nature of the industry, which operates on the periphery of communities and with little government oversight, has served to entrench exploitive labor practices such as forced, bonded, and child labor. While work conditions are often harsh, the brick industry provides needed income to thousands of unskilled laborers, and in the wake of the Gorkha Earthquake of April 2015 the sector has become a particularly vital source of the jobs and building materials necessary for Nepal’s rebuilding and recovery. The Better Brick Nepal (BBN) Program’s core long-term goal is to eliminate child, bonded, and forced labor on brick kilns in Nepal and improve working conditions for kiln workers by incentivizing kiln owners to reform through a combination of increasing market opportunity and improving enterprise viability. To achieve this, long entrenched systems of recruiting workers, paying wages and operating kilns themselves must be reformed and new, locally appropriate, approaches introduced that maintain financial benefit for owners and workers alike. Brick kilns in Nepal play an important role in an economic infrastructure that supports the livelihoods of thousands of workers and provides the raw materials that drive Nepal’s reconstruction and future growth. A future goal of BBN would be to create a more nuanced vision of brick production with wider recognition of good and bad practices where, currently, the sector is largely disparaged on the whole. The impact of creating this “choice” leverages a prevalent interest from kiln owners to find solutions to social and environmental problems entrenched in the sector, and taps into an insurgent demand for responsibility and accountability in the commercial sector in Nepal, led in part by international donor agencies, and amplified in the wake of the Gorkha earthquake.

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Global Fairness Initiative

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

14th June, 2017 

Training Officer

Established in the year 2002, Global Fairness Initiative (GFI) is an organization which promotes equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world’s working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets, and balanced public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty. GFI has partnered public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty. GFI has partnered with hundreds of marginalized working communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia to enhance economic opportunities and build sustainable livelihoods. In Nepal GFI started its program Better Brick - Nepal (BBN) to address labor and environmental challenges in the brick kiln industry. The goal of this Better Brick - Nepal is to create sustainable and effective policies and structures that incentivize the socially and environmentally responsible production of quality bricks in Nepal and catalyse market to support the entrenchment of “Better Bricks”. 

Over 200,000 workers, of whom as many as 30,000 are children, labour in unhealthy and unsafe conditions in Nepal’s brick kilns. The informal nature of the industry, which operates on the periphery of communities and with little government oversight, has served to entrench exploitive labour practices such as forced, bonded, and child labour. While work conditions are often harsh, the brick industry provides needed income to thousands of unskilled labourers, and in the wake of the Gorkha Earthquake of April 2015 the sector has become a particularly vital source of the jobs and building materials necessary for Nepal’s rebuilding and recovery.  Vacancy details are as follows:

Job Description: Full-Time Training Officer (an initial three-month contract with the potential for a long-term position)

Country focus: Nepal

Responsible to: BBN’s Chief Operating Officer and in close collaboration with GFI’s Program Director in Washington, D.C

Position Summary, Roles, and Responsibilities:

  • The Training Officer  is  responsible for developing, managing, and coordinating all training requirements of the BBN Program including developing training materials, planning and organizing training events, developing and implementing train-the-trainer sessions, and monitoring the delivery and implementation of training activities

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Knowledge and Experience

  • At least 10 years of experience in training development and delivery
  • Proven ability to develop participatory training curriculum
  • Proven ability to develop interactive training materials for non-literate populations
  • Sound knowledge and experience on child labour and/or labour rights issues
  • Sound knowledge and experience on Nepali brick sector issues preferred
  • A high level of personal integrity, efficiency, and ability to balance multiple tasks and deadlines
  • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills
  • Fluency in English and Nepali

Duration:

  • One year contract, with possibility of extension and dependent on grant funding

Compensation:

  • Commensurate with Experience

How to Apply: Interested candidate should send a request for a detailed TOR at infonepal@globalfairness.org. Also need to submit a detailed cover letter, along with their updated CV. It is mandatory to submit three (3) references. Email: infonepal@globalfairness.org

Application deadline: 26th June, 2017 by 5pm. Only short-listed candidates will be invited for written test and interviews. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. 

Overview

Category Trainer
Openings 1
Experience 10+ years
Education Please check vacancy details
Posted Date 14 Jun, 2017
Apply Before 26 Jun, 2017
City Kathmandu