Workforce Development Consultant

Remote
Contracted
Experienced
The Kaizen Company
Workforce Development Consultant


Consultant Terms of Reference

Estimated Starting Date:                  January 30, 2025
Authorized Level of Effort:             20 working days
Period of Performance:                   January 30, 2025 – May 30, 2025
Location:                                          Ukraine and Remote

 
  1. Background
Kaizen requires a Workforce Development Consultant (“Consultant”) to participate in in-country capture trip, contribute to project design and support technical proposal for the USAID-funded Ukraine New Workforce Development Activity that Kaizen is pursuing as a prime contractor. The purpose of the Workforce Development Activity is to upskill and reskill Ukraine’s workers and job seekers and fill critical job vacancies during the war. The activity will develop human capital resources in critical sectors including construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and logistics, all of which are needed for Ukraine to achieve its goals for economic recovery and rebuilding. Importantly, the activity will work closely with the private sector to provide training and job placement for those jobs that are most in demand and most critical to the needs of Ukraine’s most productive and competitive industries. The activity will help the Ukrainian economy partially fulfill labor needs for short-term economic stability and long-term structural transformation and improve employment and labor force participation rates for target populations including demobilized veterans, persons with disabilities (PwD), internally displaced persons (IDPs), women, and older workers and job seekers.
 
  1. Purpose
For this assignment, the Consultant will provide technical inputs based on conversations with stakeholders in Ukraine, conversation with Kaizen team, and from design sessions. The Consultant will provide solutions responding to the solicitation.
 
  1. Scope of Work
The Consultant will carry out the following:
 
  • Travel to Ukraine as part of the capture team
  • Participate in meetings with stakeholders in Ukraine
  • Attend scheduled technical design workshops, including capture debrief
  • Provide inputs for the Pink Team draft
  • Serve as reviewer for the Pink Team draft and provide comments for the Red Team draft
  • Red Team Review and comments
  • Any other tasks as mutually agreed upon by the Consultant and Kaizen
 
  1. Deliverables
Deliverables (listed below) will be submitted to the Business Development Manager, or his/her designee, for approval. The consultant shall also submit an invoice and timesheet showing the hours worked over the course of the invoicing period.
 
  • Capture Trip and Design sessions
  • Pink Team Inputs, review and comments
  • Red Team comments and review
 
  1. Reporting
The Consultant shall report to the Business Development Manager or his/her designee.

 
  1. Period of Performance and Level of Effort
The period of performance for this assignment is from January 30, 2025 – May 30, 2025. The place of performance is remote.

The authorized level of effort (LOE) is 12 working days (i.e., 96 total hours). An illustrative LOE breakdown is provided below for reference purposes only.
 
Task DescriptionEstimated LOE Breakdown
(%)
Attend capture trip and technical design meetings45%
Inputs and review Pink Team Proposal25%
Inputs and Review Red Team Proposal25%
Meetings, communications, and other tasks as required5%
100%
                                                                       
VII.       Consultant Requirements

The Consultant must have:
  • Prior experience working in Ukraine and/or Eastern Europe
  • Experience in Upskilling the Ukrainian workforce; Building employee-employer linkages; Improving employment support for target groups; and improving the labor market enabling environment
  • Current knowledge of Ukrainian private sector employment needs
  • Knowledge of the skills gap in Ukraine

For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.

At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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