VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
21st July, 2017
Terms of Reference
for
Senior Finance and Human Resource Officer
Project: Better Brick -- Nepal (BBN)
Job Description: Full-Time Financial and Human Resource Officer
(One year with three months' probation period)
Country Focus: Nepal
Responsible to: GFI Country Director (CD)and Better Brick – Nepal Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Organization: Global Fairness Initiative (GFI)
Duration: One year contract, with possibility of extension and dependent on grant funding
Compensation: Commensurate with Experience
1. Opportunity Background
Over 250,000 workers, of whom as many as 60,000 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.
2. The Better Brick Nepal (BBN) Program
The Better Brick - Nepal Program is a collaboration between the Global Fairness Initiative (GFI), GoodWeave, and 11 local Nepali NGOs, supported by Humanity United. The program’s objective is to incentivize kilns to eliminate bonded, forced, and child labor in the brick industry by increasing market opportunity and improving enterprise viability. Better Brick - Nepal is achieving this objective by utilizing a “tiered” system of engagement to differentiate levels of progress towards improving working conditions, as defined by the Better Brick - Nepal Standards, the program’s levels of engagement and investment on each kiln, and intensities of market facilitation and promotion for the kilns.
Better Brick - Nepal currently has 40 partner kilns, which fall into three tiers - Participant Kilns, Member Kilns, and Certified Kilns. By staggering engagement and investment based on performance, the program can partner with more kilns, more quickly. In addition, by marketing Member and CertifiedKilns, the program can start to add in suppliers to meet the increased demand, while also ensuring that a zero tolerance policy on child labor is upheld.
Better Brick - Nepal’s specific objectives are:
3. Roles and Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for maintaining and enhancing GFI/Nepal’s financial and human resource systems, policies, and programs. It is anticipated that the majority of the Senior Finance and Human Resource Officer’s time will be spent on the financial responsibilities and only about 25% of their time will be dedicated to the human resource responsibilities.
Financial Management Systems and Policies
Budgeting and Financial Analysis
Capacity Development of Partner Organizations
Reporting
Human Resource Management
4. Knowledge and Experience:
How to apply: Interested applicants are required 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: 28th July, 2017 by 5pm.
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”.