1.     Position Information

2.    Office/Unit/Project Description

The main aim of the project is to showcase pilot transformation cases in manufacturing industry and to establish replicable models for inclusive and sustainable growth with specific focus on women empowerment. The specific objective of the project is to widen women’s possible qualified STEM based employment opportunities by providing sustainable partnerships, capacity development solutions in industry and bring women into traditionally male-dominated sectors and occupations in line with digital and green transformation requirements of the manufacturing industry in post COVID-19 period.

The project will be implemented in the 5 pilot provinces namely Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Kocaeli, and Manisa.

The project period will cover 24 months. Implementation period will consist of two basic components namely financial support to third parties and activities. Activities are formulated in a complementary manner and classified under five components. Some of the sub-activities could go in parallel to match the required needs for the project. “Activity-1 Preparatory Studies” will focus on complementary and quick assessments to formulate pilot cases while enforcing commitment of the local stakeholders. In parallel selection of change agents/operators and companies for pilot implementation will be also completed here. “Activity-2 Capacity Development of Target Groups” will cover a wide range of capacity improvement/development actions targeting change agents/operators, SMEs, and key interface organizations. “Activity-3 Pilot Transformation Cases” will showcase pilot implementation in companies, placement/incentive programs and “Activity-4 Monitoring & Evaluation” will follow up and document implementation experience for replication. “Activity-5 Communication & Visibility” will include key communication-oriented actions.

The project is mainly linked to “Private Sector Development” action of the Competitiveness and Innovation Sector Operational Programme 2014-2020 (CISOP) with a specific emphasis on transforming the manufacturing industry and increasing the competitiveness through emphasising women employment. Accordingly, Developing Women Employment Models in Manufacturing Industry, the project, is expected to contribute to the achievement of “Activity 1.1: Manufacturing Activity of the CISOP- 2014-2020” by aiming at improvement of the total factor productivity of the national economy with a specific emphasis on transforming the manufacturing industry, and increasing its competitiveness.

The project will focus on addressing the challenge of adoption to the new work patterns of the manufacturing sector with a special focus of women empowerment while showcasing transformation results in the context of recent trends. The project is also designed to support compliance with the EU acquis via interventions that will be contributed through strengthening institutional capacity in the relevant sectors. IPA II aims to assist Türkiye in multiple areas including private sector development and manufacturing sector. The project aims to contribute to the improvement of the total factor productivity of the national economy with a specific emphasis on transforming the manufacturing industry, and increasing its competitiveness trough focusing on women empowerment in employment. In addition, business opportunities will be in transition to a green economy offers. Activities support to respond the requirements of trends on digital transformation and green transformation in accordance with the CISOP.

3.    Scope of Work

The Project Associates will be contributing to the project with professional input to all activities and will be taking a lead in financial and administrative transactions of the project. One associate will be mobilized for the activities under the responsibility of the TISK and the other one for the activities under the responsibility of the UNDP. They will be acting like hub to ensure the linkage with the field and overall project management activities. They are expected to provide technical inputs to prepare terms of references, payment documents, proofreading, preliminary editing etc. and more take role in the operational transactions. They will be reporting to the Project Manager and will be working closely with international senior experts, local senior experts, and local junior experts. They will be contributing to the project outputs, training events, pilot activities and communication actions with the operational responsibilities. The TISK Project Associate main responsibility area will be TISK’s activities in close relation with the affiliated entity, i.e., the MESS. In addition, the TISK Project Associate will have a financial oversight role for the TISK activities especially in coordinating financial support to women. S/he will also be directly involved in the protocol process with the companies where the assessments will take place and where the trained women will be employed. The TISK Project Associate will also coordinate the affiliated entity’s, the MESS, trainings to be provided for women and the assessments that will be conducted for the companies. The UNDP Project Associate will be following the UNDP activities. Both associates reporting to the Project Manager and they will be contributing to the action in a holistic manner under PM leadership. Associates will be also liaising with assistants in administrative responsibilities.

The NPSA holders are expected to assume the following tasks depending on their assignment location (UNDP or TISK):

4.      Institutional Arrangement

The Project Associates will be reporting to the Project Manager and will be working closely with international senior experts, local senior experts, and local junior experts.

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