Consultant on financial literacy for migrants and their families

Information

Common information

• Position Title: Consultant on financial literacy for migrants and their families
• Duty Station: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (home-based)
• Type of Appointment: Consultancy
• Duration: October 2024 – March 2025 (6 months)
• Closing Date: 11 October 2024

Nature of the consultancy: Under the overall supervision of the country manager of the project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the successful candidate will develop financial literacy module and train on financial literacy SRA/PRAs and will consult on financial matters.

Project Context and Scope:

In 2022 IOM started implementation of the regional ‘Labour Migration Programme – Central Asia’ funded by the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC) with an overall goal to assist the governments in Central Asia to enhance labour migration governance to better respond to employer and labour market needs while ensuring protection of migrant workers and enhancing development impacts in both countries of origin and destination.

Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing:

Labour Migration Department - Labour Migration Programme - Central Asia (SDC), Project code: LM.0479.

Qualification requirements

Education, Experience and/or skills required:

Education: Diploma – completed university degree relevant for the assignment.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of experience in working with financial literacy and training, developing training materials; 
• Knowledge and understanding of the migration issues;
• Experience in working with the government agencies, banks, international organizations and UN agencies is an advantage.

Competencies and Skills:

• Good knowledge of the migration & financial literacy;
• Familiarity with IOM’s mandate;
• Good command of oral and written Russian and Kyrgyz; English is an advantage.

Personal Qualities and other requirements:

• Good interpersonal skills, solid judgment/decision making, initiative and creativity;
• Cultural and gender sensitivity.

Diversity: Adheres to the core values of the United Nations; in particular, is respectful of differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, etc.

Travel required:

Travel within Kyrgyzstan will be required and all related expenses will be covered by IOM.

Required Competencies: 

Values 

• Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion. 

• Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct. 

• Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges. 

• Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance. 

• Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated. 

Core Competencies – behavioural indicators level 1 

• Teamwork: develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results. 

• Delivering results: produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner; is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes. 

• Managing and sharing knowledge: continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate. 

• Accountability: takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own action and delegated work. 

• Communication: encourages and contributes to clear and open communication; explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way. 

IOM’s competency framework can be found at this link: 

https://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/aboutiom/iom_revised_competency_framework_external.pdf 

Competencies will be assessed during a competency-based interview. 

Duties

Category B Consultants: Tangible and measurable outputs of the work assignment:

• Conduct a mapping of the existent financial products of commercial and state banks targeted at migrants and their families.
• Develop a module on financial literacy including text file and presentation to be incorporated in the PDO package as well as related materials to be shared with families of prospective migrants (in Russian and Kyrgyz languages).
• Train institutions offering PDO services on providing migrants with the new module on financial literacy and the related materials for families.
• Serve as Focal point between IOM, National Bank and commercial banks.
• Guide IOM on development of a financial literacy product targeted specifically to respond to the needs of migrant workers and their families and conduct outreach to identified banks to present project intention and potential collaboration.
• Compliance with IOM Data Protection Principles. 

Performance indicators for the evaluation of results:

1. Conduct a mapping of the existent financial products of commercial and state banks targeted at migrants and their families (deliverable by 30 November 2024).
2. Develop a module on financial literacy to be incorporated in the PDO package as well as related materials to be shared with families of prospective migrants (deliverable by 28 February 2025).
3. Train institutions offering PDO services on providing migrants with the new module on financial literacy and the related materials for families (deliverable by 31 March 2025).
4. Guide IOM on development of a financial literacy product targeted specifically to respond to the needs of migrant workers and their families (deliverable by 30 April 2025).
5. Final report (deliverable by 30 April 2025).

Conditions

HOW TO APPLY

Interested candidates are kindly invited to send their application package that includes a detailed CV, cover letter and recommendation letter/s via email to hrkg@iom.int  by 23:00 of 11 October 2024, referring to this advertisement in the subject line.

It is also recommended that applicants complement their submission with a portfolio of previous work demonstrating proven professional experience in the given area.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For more information, please visit https://kyrgyzstan.iom.int/careers or https://www.iom.int/.