Background
There may be broad settlement that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are very important to attaining first rate and productive employment as they globally account for greater than two-thirds of all jobs and in addition create nearly all of new jobs. The ILO MSME Department seeks to unlock the potential of making extra and higher jobs in small companies along with governments, social companions, the non-public sector in addition to different related companions according to the first rate work agenda of the ILO.
Whereas many ladies run profitable enterprises, persistent gendered inequalities proceed to create main disparities in alternatives to start out and develop a enterprise. The MSME department seeks to redress current gender imbalances in enterprise growth via approaches aimed particularly at ladies, whereas working with constituents and different key stakeholders to make sure that enterprise initiatives take into account gender dynamics and inequalities of their formulation and roll-out. Making use of a set of examined instruments and approaches, the Department seeks to assist and create gender-inclusive ecosystems the place aspiring and current ladies entrepreneurs can begin and develop their enterprise.
Casual enterprises are extremely prevalent in creating nations and infrequently function an essential livelihood choice for these excluded from the formal financial system. These enterprises are sometimes characterised by low productiveness and first rate work deficits, don’t generate public revenues and have a tendency to interact in unfair competitors with formal enterprises. The ILO MSME Department facilitates enterprise formalization via analysis, advisory providers on coverage measures to constituents and thru measures resembling enterprise growth providers and different initiatives that make enterprise registration cheaper, simpler and extra engaging.
The ILO MSME Department is now participating a junior advisor to assist their HQ group engaged on ladies’s entrepreneurship growth and enterprise formalization. The group primarily based in ILO HQ coordinates and offers assist to tasks, programmes and particular actions all over the world whereas documenting and disseminating good practices and classes learnt.
Scope of labor
Within the framework of this project, the junior advisor will present assist to the ladies’s entrepreneurship growth and enterprise formalization group of the MSME Department (see anticipated outputs beneath) by bringing in a technically knowledgeable, vital and modern mindset, to assist the preparation of varied written outputs and actions.
The Advisor will report back to the Specialist on Enterprise Formalization and Girls’s Entrepreneurship Growth, Judith Van Doorn, whereas working carefully with the remainder of the group.
Anticipated outputs
As a part of the project, the advisor is anticipated to undertake the next:
- Preparation of written outputs together with no less than 3 case research, briefs and coaching supplies pertaining to ladies’s entrepreneurship growth, ladies’s financial empowerment and gender equality.
- Conduct desk analysis and assist drafting a thematic transient on information assortment methodologies on enterprise informality (4 to five pages).
- Help useful resource mobilization efforts by contributing to the event of no less than one idea word.
- Undertake analysis on thematic areas associated to ladies’s entrepreneurship growth.
- Put together and execute a plan to assist the deployment of instruments and approaches to assist ladies’s entrepreneurship growth initiatives and tasks in numerous nations.
- Present technical assist for the event and drafting of coaching supplies on enterprise formalization for entrepreneurs.
- Perform a variety of actions to assist the outreach and communications efforts of the group, together with the documentation and dissemination of achievements, improvements, group of webinars and capability constructing workshops.
Timeframe and Cost
The length of the contract is initially over a interval of 4 months with 15-20 working days/month (to be agreed) from April 2024 onwards. The project requires the completion of a set of deliverables inside a most of 80 working days (with a risk of getting new merchandise added for an extension).
The ILO is not going to reimburse the advisor for added workdays if this has not been agreed beforehand and the contract between the advisor and ILO has been up to date to replicate agreed edits.
The full charge for the project might be primarily based on consultants’ expertise and profile. The every day charge proposed by the advisor is estimated to be between 150 and 200 US$/day.
A primary cost might be transferred upon submission of accomplished deliverables to the satisfaction of the ILO by 14th June.
A second cost of the remaining charge might be transferred on the finish of the agreed interval upon submission of remaining accomplished deliverables to the satisfaction of the ILO.
Key competencies/expertise
The anticipated stage of expertise is on the stage of a junior advisor that has just lately graduated with a masters (or equal) in a related discipline of examine and will supply the next competencies and experiences:
- Stable understanding of assist to small enterprise growth in sensible phrases. This implies an economics and/or social sciences background with some preliminary work expertise in organizations that promote enterprise growth
- Good information of gender points and ladies’s empowerment, ideally with a deal with ladies in creating nations
- Good preliminary understanding of the ILO and its first rate work mandate
- Glorious writing and textual content abilities
- Good interpersonal and communication abilities
- Skill to work on personal initiative in addition to a member of a group
- Skill to hold out assignments in accordance with directions and pointers
- Glorious command of English and ideally additionally French.
Authentic name for software could also be discovered here.
The best way to apply
events are invited to ship the next paperwork to [email protected] earlier than the fifth of April 2024, midnight Geneva (CET) time, together with the next:
- Curriculum vitae outlining the related {qualifications} and requested every day charge
- A letter outlining the curiosity on this project and exemplifying competencies and expertise (max 1 web page)