Position: Consultant/Consultancy
Location: Tirupur, India
Programme Duration: September 2024 - February 2025
Application Deadline:9am GMT, 12 September 2024
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a leading membership organisation focused on addressing human rights impacts in supply chains. By working with companies, trade unions and NGOs we are uniquely placed to tackle the challenges faced by workers around the world. We support businesses to identify and reduce human rights risks in supply chains, through guidance and collaboration across our membership.
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) seeks an expert consultant/consultancy to support the delivery of a living wages/social dialogue program in a garment-producing factory in India, as part of the program ‘Living wages in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan with PST brands’. The consultant/consultancy must have strong expertise in delivering training modules to workers and factory management and some expertise in data collection, research, and analysis in the context of garment supply chains.
Qualifications:
- A comprehensive organisational track-record of working in the RMG/industrial sector, especially within the following thematic areas: workplace-based social dialogue, freedom of association, gender equality, living wages.
- Experience working with garment factories and supply chains in India, particularly in engaging with workers and factory management.
- Experience in designing and delivering training programmes for workers and factory management in garment factories in India.
- Comprehensive track record in conducting action/participatory research, including surveys and other qualitative studies for donor-funded projects. The consultant(s) must have practical experience in statistical tools (SPSS).
- Demonstrated experience in producing reports and documents for a business audience.
- Strong analytical and writing skills.
- Strong project management skills, including timely and clear communication, managing project expectations, and working under tight timelines.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Tamil.
Expected deliverables:
- Delivery of capacity-building and awareness raising programmes in participating factories including adaptation of all materials to the local context/language. Provisions of a detailed training plan at the start of the assignment.
- Data collection for baseline, needs assessment, and endline. This will include both quantitative and qualitative data to be collected at the factory level. Consultants will be expected to analyse the data and share findings with the ETI team, as well as provide a clean and complete raw dataset.
- Monthly progress reports reflecting activities conducted, results achieved, challenges, and learnings gathered. Brief event reports to be provided, e.g., kick-off meeting/consultation meetings/follow-up visits, validation workshop, ToT, training.
- Pictures of the interventions, meetings, and BCC campaign events (can be taken through a mobile phone).
- The final output of the assignment shall be two reports:
- A comprehensive project completion report that includes a comparison of baseline and endline data and shows results, outcomes, and learning.
- A living wage report detailing the impact of low wages on workers. Both reports need to cover an analysis of the data/information contributing to the project’s objectives and should include an executive summary of no more than 3 pages. Both reports should also be accompanied by PowerPoint presentations.
Application Process:
To learn more about this opportunity, please download the Terms of Reference (ToRs) at the top of this page. Please submit your CV(s), evidence of similar work, and a proposal (max 2 pages) outlining your methodology, timeline, and budget to hr@eti.org.uk with the subject line "Delivery Partner to Implement ETI Programme on Living Wages/Social Dialogue in India" by 9am GMT, 12 September 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.
The participating factory is located in Tirupur, and consultant(s) should ideally be located in the area.