Private Sector Mapping Consultant

The private sector in Nepal has emerged as a vital partner in addressing critical development challenges, including empowering adolescent girls, promoting family-friendly workplaces, and advancing climate action. Recognizing this, UNICEF Nepal, in December 2023, convened a successful roundtable with senior representatives from around 21 businesses across diverse industries, such as hospitality, technology, retail, banking, and sports. This event highlighted a strong appetite for collaboration and laid the foundation for deeper engagement to benefit Nepal’s children and families. Building on this momentum, UNICEF Nepal plans to initiate targeted dialogues and co-create solutions with businesses in 2025. These efforts will focus on empowering adolescent girls, fostering family-friendly business practices, and engaging businesses and young people in climate action. The ultimate goal is to formalize and implement partnerships between 2026 and 2027. The experiences gained from these partnerships will inform the organization’s private sector engagement strategy in the upcoming 2028-2032 country programme.

In this context, UNICEF seeks to engage an individual consultant to conduct a comprehensive mapping exercise of the private sector’s current adoption of family-friendly workplace policies. The findings from this mapping will provide critical insights into existing practices, identify gaps and challenges, and highlight best practices. This evidence will guide future advocacy and engagement with the private sector, helping UNICEF Nepal and its partners foster sustainable solutions that support the wellbeing and development of children and families. 

The objective of the consultancy is to assess the extent and nature of family-friendly policies adopted by private sector companies, identify best practices, and highlight gaps that need to be addressed. Specific objectives include:

• Mapping existing family-friendly policies, including parental leave, childcare support, breastfeeding spaces, flexible working arrangements, and health benefits.
• Identifying companies leading in family-friendly practices.
• Analyzing barriers and challenges faced by companies in adopting such policies.
• Providing actionable recommendations for scaling family-friendly policies.

Scope of Work:

• Conduct a literature review of existing studies, reports, and policy frameworks on family-friendly workplace practices.
• Develop and administer surveys and/or conduct interviews with HR representatives and senior management from selected companies.
• Identify and document the status of family-friendly policies in companies across various sectors.
• Highlight exemplary companies with innovative practices.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to encourage the adoption of family-friendly policies.
• Draft and present a comprehensive report of findings and recommendations.
• Duration of the Contract: The total duration of the assignment is for 30 days starting from 01 April 2025.

Assignment:

• Submission of inception report detailing methodology, work plan, and survey tools – By 9 April 2025 ( 5 days)
• Submission of draft mapping report with key findings, best practices and preliminary recommendations – By 01 May 2025 (15 days)
• Submission of final comprehensive report incorporating feedback – By 15 May 2025 (10 days)
• For details on the assignment including tasks and deliverables, please refer to the link: Terms of Reference.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Education:

• Master’s degree in human resources, sociology, business or related fields

Work experience: 

• At least 5 years of experience in research, mapping, assessments, report writing
• Must have a prior experience working with private sector
• Strong understanding of private sector in the country and family-friendly workplace policies.
• Excellent analytical and report-writing skills.
• Ability to engage and interview senior-level stakeholders.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/580425