The Global Fairness Initiative promotes a more equitable, sustainable approach to economic development for the world’s working poor by advancing fair wages, equal access to markets, and balanced public policy to generate opportunity and end the cycle of poverty.
Jobs Function: | NGO / INGO / Social work | Jobs Availability: | Full Time |
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Jobs Level: | Senior Level | Offered Salary: | Negotiable |
Jobs Location: | Kathmandu | Min. Experience Year: | 10 Years |
Education Degree: | Bachelor | No. of Openings: | 1 |
Deadline: | Friday, Sep 22, 2017 (Expired) | Preferred Gender: | Any |
Project: Better Brick - Nepal
Job Description: Full-Time Communications & Marketing Manager
Country Focus: Nepal
Responsible to: GFI’s Nepal Country Director and Better brick Nepal's Chief Operating Officer(Nepal)
Organizations: The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI) is currently overseeing the Better Brick-Nepal Program.
Duration: One year contract, with the possibility of extension and dependent on grant funding.
Compensation: Commensurate with Experience
The Better Brick - Nepal Program
The Better Brick - Nepal Program is a collaboration between the Global Fairness Initiative (GFI), GoodWeave, and local Nepali NGOs, supported by Humanity United. The program’s objective is to incentivize kilns to eliminate bonded, forced, and child labor in the brick industry by increasing market opportunity and improving enterprise viability. Better Brick - Nepal is achieving this objective by utilizing a “tiered” system of engagement to differentiate levels of progress towards improving working conditions, as defined by the Better Brick - Nepal Standards, the program’s levels of engagement and investment on each kiln, and intensities of market facilitation and promotion for the kilns.
Better Brick - Nepal currently has 40 partner kilns, which fall into three tiers - Participant Kilns, Member Kilns, and Certified Kilns. By staggering engagement and investment based on performance, the program can partner with more kilns, more quickly. In addition, by marketing Member and Certified Kilns, the program can start to add in suppliers to meet the increased demand, while also ensuring that a zero tolerance policy on child labor is upheld.
Roles and Responsibilities; The primary responsibilities of Better Brick – Nepal’s Communications and Marketing Manager are to provide strategic and functional communications and marketing support to the program.