Location: Remote/home office
Duration: 1 March-30 May 2021
Reports to: Program Manager, YES Activity (Located in Bangladesh)
BACKGROUND
Relief International is an international humanitarian non-profit agency that provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, development assistance, and program services to vulnerable communities worldwide. Relief International is dedicated to reducing human suffering and is non-political and non-sectarian in its mission.
RI has over 15 years of operational experience in Bangladesh. Using local expertise and resources, RI has worked to build the capacity of communities through the use of innovative education and health programs, human rights and preventing human trafficking work, livelihood training, small business development, environment and climate change initiatives, and eco-tourism services. Through our activities, RI has forged lasting partnerships with national organizations, which allow for marginalized communities to have access to sustainable support.
In collaboration with 3 local partners, Relief International is currently implementing a ‘Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Support (YES) Program’. The project, started in 2020 and will continue till 2022) seeks to increase market-oriented Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for youth within a conflict sensitive, peacebuilding framework. YES employs a two-pronged approach, addressing grievances related to competition over economic opportunities, while also investing in host community youth’s ability to create an enabling environment for social cohesion. Targeted female and male youth receive market-relevant and conflict-sensitive vocational training, and be linked to employment opportunities. These youth are also teamed up with community leaders who coach youth to lead their own initiatives that promote social cohesion in their communities. As such, YES layers its interventions around vocational training and employment opportunities with the opportunity to learn and apply these softer skills for the benefit of their communities. YES focus on youth and communities in four upazilas in Cox’s Bazar District: Ramu, Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Ukhiya, and Teknaf. These upazilas have been selected due the high numbers of unemployed youth.
Under YES Activity, Relief International and its project partners are implementing the following activities:
DUTIES AND R E S PON S I B I L I T I E S
To support the YES program activities, RI Bangladesh office seeks to recruit an Individual Consultant for Creative Writing, Copywriting and Copyediting for 3 (three) months with a possibility of extension.
The consultant is expected to support Relief International and its project partners to successfully complete the above mentioned assessments. The consultant will directly work with Relief International and its partners to provide high quality inputs and feedback on preparation (including development of an outline in consultation with project team and the partners), editing and finalization of the assessment reports following inputs and feedback received from project stakeholders. The consultant will also assist in overall presentation of the draft and final reports and any other annexes/appendixes related to the assessments for submission to the external parties.
The consultant will collect and review/study relevant project documents, discuss with the relevant YES activity program personnel of RI and the project partners to have the best understanding of standard and quality required for the assessment reports. The consultant will also interact with relevant project stakeholders as well as identified external interlocutors to gain additional input.
Additionally, the consultant will support communications and public outreach and develop creative content at the country and global level, with the main objective of increasing the visibility and understanding of the YES Activity project in Bangladesh among national counterparts, the global stakeholders, and the general public through the drafting of creative content, copywriting and copy-editing communications materials.
The consultant will extend her/his services in development and finalization of creative content for RI’s internal use ( such as, RI websites, blogs, social media platforms, success stories, feature stories etc.) and other information outlets related to the YES Activity.
TIMELINE
The consultancy is expected to start on the 7 March 2021. The assignment will be completed by end of May 2021 with possibility of extension.
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About Relief International.
Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International includes the four members of the RI Alliance in the USA, UK, France, and Belgium. Under our alliance agreement, we operate under a single, shared management structure with one CEO and one Board of Directors.
About our Programs.
RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.
RI employs 7,000+ staff and auxiliary workers
97% of staff are in-country nationals
We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+
RI spent $125 million in 2019 on our programs.
RI invests in four broad program sectors: Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). We design our programs to incorporate The RI Way: local participation, integrated programming, the development of civic skills, and partnerships including with local NGOs, governments, and the private sector.
RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.