RISE is seeking an organization based in Guatemala to implement the RISE Financial Health workplace program in the country. Please fill out this form to register your interest in this work. Our team will reach out with more details. 

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SCOPE OF WORK 

• The organization will be delivering the RISE Financial Health program at the garment factories in Guatemala following RISE curriculum and design. It includes: 

• Conduct 6 capacity strengthening sessions covering 3 to 5% of the workforce (peer educators). Topics covered are use of financial services, financial planning, budgeting, saving and borrowing, and talking about finances with family.  

• Conduct 3 refresher sessions with peer educators.  

• Arrange 1 middle management training. 

• Engage with top and middle management during program implementation through an introductory, mid-term and closing meeting. 

• Facilitate the connection between reputed and reliable financial service providers and workers. 

• Conduct Baseline and Endline surveys with a subset of workers and prepare reports following the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework of RISE. 

• Prints and distribute flipbooks and relevant IEC (Information, Education & Communication) materials to the workers and managers.  

• The organization will appoint a project team to manage the program and to be in communication with RISE, brands and factories. 

• RISE will connect the organization to factories to deliver the program.  

• RISE expects good quality work from the organization, which should appoint qualified facilitators who have expertise in gender, soft skills and financial health in the garment sector and/or in supply chains in Guatemala. The organization should have an internal quality assurance procedure to uphold the RISE standard. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• The organization should be a registered entity with rights to work in Guatemala and adhere to all local laws and regulations in the country. 

• Proven experience in conducting capacity strengthening with vulnerable populations and with a no harm approach.  

• Demonstrated knowledge and project implementation experience in the areas of gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, supply chains, financial health and capacity building, preferably in garment and footwear sector or related industries of Guatemala. 

• Strong knowledge and experience in the areas of financial inclusion, gender equality, women’s economic empowerment.  

• Strong analytical and report writing skills. 

• Strong project management skills, including timely and clear communication and managing project expectations, and working with industry stakeholders, including brands and factories, under tight timelines.  

• Fluency in written and spoken Spanish is mandatory. Demonstrated experience in producing report in Spanish is required. Understanding of English is desirable. 

• Ability to work closely with RISE global and national technical teams. 

REPORTING 

The organization will report to the RISE Guatemala Country Coordinator and work closely with the Project Manager and Associate. 

PAYMENT  

The fees will be agreed in advance and payment will be made upon satisfactory completion of the deliverables. The organization will be responsible for its own taxes and other statutory obligations.  

CONFIDENTIALITY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

The organization is expected to maintain the confidentiality of all programs related information. All reports, data and other materials generated by the organization will be property of BSR.  

 

 

RISE is seeking an organization based in Guatemala to implement the RISE Respect workplace program in the country.  

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SCOPE OF WORK

•  The organization will be delivering the RISE Respect program at the garment factories in Guatemala following RISE curriculum and design. It includes: 
• Conduct 6 capacity strengthening sessions covering 3 to 5% of women and men workers and managers, divided in 3 cohorts (men, women, managers). Topics covered are gender issues, social norms, communication, types of violence and how to prevent and remediate them. For example, for 2000 workers total, there will be 6 sessions for 2 groups of 25 women workers + 6 sessions for 2 groups of 25 men workers + 6 sessions with 2 groups of 25 managers = 36 sessions total. 

• Conduct 2 refresher sessions with each cohort (women, men, managers). For example, for 2000 workers total, there will be 2 sessions for 2 groups of 25 women workers + 2 sessions for 2 groups of 25 men workers + 2 sessions with 2 groups of 25 managers = 12 sessions total. 

• Arrange 3 joint sessions between management and workers on gender, communication and GBVH issues. 

• Arrange 1 top management training session. 

• Engage with top and middle management during program implementation through an introductory, mid-term and closing meeting. 

• Guide factories to set up a functional workplace system and policy to prevent and address GBVH.  

• Conduct 6 Workplace System Strengthening (WSS) sessions with the senior management and anti-harassment committees to strengthen the workplace systems on GBVH. 

• Conduct 1 townhall sessions with all the workers and managers in the factory at the end of the program to aware them on the policies and system on GBVH. 

• Facilitate the connection between reputed and reliable local organization and workers to avail required legal and psychosocial or other support related to GBVH. 

• Conduct Baseline and Endline surveys with a subset of workers and prepare reports following the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework of RISE. 

• Prints and distribute flipbooks and relevant IEC (Information, Education & Communication) materials to the workers and managers.  

• The organization will appoint a project team to manage the program and to be in communication with RISE, brands and factories. 

• RISE will connect the organization to factories to deliver the program.  

• RISE expects good quality work from the organization which should appoint qualified facilitators who have expertise in gender, soft skills, GBVH and system strengthening work in the garment sector and/or in any supply chain in Guatemala. The organization should have an internal quality assurance procedure to uphold the RISE standard. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• The organization should be a registered entity with rights to work in Guatemala and adhere to all local laws and regulations in the country. 

• Proven experience in conducting capacity strengthening with vulnerable populations and with a no harm approach.  

• Demonstrated experience in conducting sessions following adult learning principles on gender, soft skills, GBVH issues with workers and managers in the garment sector in India.  

• Strong knowledge and experience in the areas of gender equality, women’s empowerment and GBVH.  

• Experience on system strengthening and policies on GBVH in the factories and expertise to facilitate worker management dialogue on sensitive topics. 

• Strong project management skills, including timely and clear communication with factory management & RISE and managing project expectations, and working under tight timelines. 

• Fluency in written and spoken Spanish is mandatory. Demonstrated experience in producing report in Spanish is required. Understanding of English is desirable. 

• Ability to work closely with RISE in country and global teams across time zones.