Technical Assistance for promoting women’s employment – Turkey

Employment Measures Specialist

CfBT intends to bid for the above named European Commission (EC) service contract. This contract aims to provide technical assistance on improving the existing capacity to design, develop and implement policies to attract and retain more people in employment particularly by increasing labour participation of women. This will be realised by designing local strategies for increasing the promotion of women’s employment and developing a model; producing labour market analysis and identifying employment opportunities accessible to women’s target groups; enhancing career information, vocational guidance and counseling services adapted to women of the target groups; promoting networking between granted projects and participating women of the target groups. The consultant will also be responsible for undertaking activities regarding the dissemination of the results of the grant scheme, which is planned to be launched in parallel with this service contract.

The contract is due to start in June 2010, total duration of 21 months.

The successful applicant will have the following:

Qualifications and skills:

  • University degree in social studies, human resources or an equivalent field.
  • Post-graduate degree in labour economics, employment policies or related subjects would be an asset.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English.
  • Computer literacy.

General professional skills:

  • At least 10 years’ professional experience on human resources, employment and/or social sector issues.
  • At least 5 years’ work experience in the field of employment, economic or social development.
  • Relevant experience in designing and/or managing employment policies, measures or programme in a managerial position.
  • Relevant experience in grant scheme management.

Specific professional experience:

  • Experience of international projects, at least one of which should be related to human resources development (HRD).
  • Experience in delivering training on women’s employment.
  • Experience of organising international conferences would be an asset.
  • Experience of organising study visits would be an asset.

Please note that in accordance with EC Regulations, all consultants who wish to be put forward as a Key Expert for an EC contract tender must provide documentary evidence (employer certificates or references) for all previous employment assignments listed in their CV. If this cannot be provided a statement explaining why documentary proof of assignments cannot be obtained can be submitted.

 

Should this project be of interest to you please send an up to date EC-formatted CV to consultancydatabase@cfbt.com, quoting reference code: Turkey WE (EMS) – CfBT.