Background

A leading local organization is implementing a UN Women–funded project in Balochistan aimed at strengthening the capacities of Women Home-Based Workers (WHBWs) through skills development, digital literacy, and enhanced economic participation. The project seeks to advance women’s economic empowerment by improving their employability, income-generation potential, and access to decent work opportunities.

A key barrier faced by many women is the mismatch between their existing skills and the competencies required by local and emerging labour markets. To address this gap, the organization is seeking to engage a qualified individual consultant to assess the women home-based workers and design a responsive, market-aligned training package that strengthens their economic opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess 300 beneficiaries, building on existing baseline data to identify their existing competencies, learning gaps, career aspirations, and market-relevant skill requirements.
• Consult and coordinate with relevant trainers, training institutes, employers, industry associations, and technical experts to assess training capacity, course requirements, market demand, and certification/accreditation standards.
• Analyze findings, identify skills gaps and recommend suitable training areas and courses based on beneficiary profiles, market opportunities, and the capacity of training providers.
• Develop course outlines, session plans, trainer guides, learning materials, practical exercises, and assessment tools that incorporate digital, financial, entrepreneurship, life-skills, and workplace-readiness components.
• Design assessment framework, aligned with competency-based and hands-on delivery methodologies, to track participants’ learning progress and readiness for employment or entrepreneurship.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant professional experience.
• Experience of conducting assessments, surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), and key informant interviews (KIIs).
• Strong facilitation, communication, and report-writing skills.
• Prior experience in women’s economic empowerment or skills-development initiatives will be an advantage.

Duration & Deliverables

• 20 consecutive days in Quetta.

• A comprehensive assessment report for the 300 participants.
• Tailor-made, modular training curricula and associated materials (course outlines, session plans, trainer guides, learning materials, practical exercises, and assessment tools) ready for delivery with accredited technical partners.

Application process:

Interested individual consultants should submit the following documents by email to [email protected]:

1. Technical proposal
2. Financial proposal, inclusive of all applicable taxes
3. CV, with evidence of two similar past assignments or references

Note: Organization has a zero-tolerance policy with regard to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Organization’spersonnel against the people they serve. All forms of sexual exploitation and abuse are incompatible with the universallyaccepted norms, values, principles and standards that underpin in Organization. Protection from Sexual Exploitation andAbuse (PSEA) is the responsibility of everyone and all selected candidates will be required to comply with the Organization PSEA Policy at all times. Selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and backgroundchecks against their past behavior related to sexual exploitation and abuse, and may be required to provide additionalinformation further on in the selection process.
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