Corporate Engagement Consultant
- Employer
- ChildFund Alliance
- Location
- New York, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Closing date
- Dec 10, 2021
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- Position Type
- Fundraising, Corporate and Foundation Relations
- Fields
- International
- Employment Type
- Part Time
Terms of Reference
1. General Information
Title: Consultant – Corporate Engagement Guidelines
Application deadline: 30 November 2021
Location: Home-based
Contract: Consultancy, estimated 15 working days within 2 to 3
months
Expected start date: December 2021 - January 2022 (negotiable)
2. About ChildFund Alliance
ChildFund Alliance is a global network of 12 child-focused
development organizations that help children and their families
overcome poverty and the underlying conditions that prevent
children from reaching their full potential. We reach nearly 23
million children and their family members in 70 countries around
the world. Members work to end violence against children; provide
expertise in emergencies and disasters to ease the harmful impact
on children and their communities; and engage children and youth to
create lasting change. Our commitment, resources, innovation,
knowledge and expertise serve as a powerful force to elevate the
voices of children and transform their lives. For more details,
please see: www.childfundalliance.org.
3. Background
Members of ChildFund Alliance have strategically engaged over a
period of years with corporations in several countries. Engagement
mechanisms are aligned with overall development cooperation
priorities in terms of themes, sectors and countries of focus.
Principles for effective development cooperation are integrated
into private sector engagement strategies and mechanisms to ensure
country ownership, alignment, coordination, value for money,
transparency, accountability, and inclusive partnerships.
Importantly, private sector engagements must do no harm, and must
work to maximise positive development results. As such, engagements
are informed by clear partnership criteria that consider
responsible business conduct, due diligence procedures, and
consideration of economic, social and environmental impacts and
risks. In alignment with ChildFund Alliance members’ policies and
practices, ChildFund Alliance is looking to review and further
develop its corporate engagement guidelines to maximize results for
all children around the world.
Corporate engagement and relevance to ChildFund
Alliance
Vision — The vision of ChildFund’s corporate relations initiative
is to build long-term, mutually beneficial, integrated
relationships with corporations and associations willing to provide
funds, in-kind resources, knowledge-sharing, employee and customer
engagement, introductions and contacts, and marketing resources to
advance ChildFund’s mission.
Long-term Relationships — To maximize benefits for both the
corporation and ChildFund, we seek relationships with a long-term
outlook and multi-year commitment (preferably a minimum of three
years).
Mutually Beneficial — By creating a mutually beneficial relationship, both parties can advance their goals: ChildFund receives support to advance its mission to help children in need and to transform their lives, and the corporate partner advances its commitment to social responsibility, while also strengthening its brand and engaging its employees and customers in important social issues. Mutual interests and goals are identified; impact is measured. Both parties benefit from their investment of valuable time and resources.
Integrated — The most successful corporate relationships are those that are authentic, organic and woven into the fabric of each organization.
Mission-driven — ChildFund seeks partners committed to its mission to advance and protect the rights of children, and to provide vulnerable children living in poverty with opportunities to reach their full potential and contribute to lasting and positive change in their communities.
4. Scope of Work
ChildFund Alliance is seeking a consultant to conduct an in-depth
review and update of the Corporate Engagement Guidelines. The
ChildFund Alliance Secretariat, in collaboration with the Alliance
Corporate Subcommittee, comprising technical representatives from
all Alliance members, will oversee the work.
Specific objectives are:
a) Analysis of current policies, practices and trends for corporate engagement within the ChildFund Alliance
Recognizing that different Alliance members have distinct practices, objectives and policies for corporate engagement, the consultant will identify both commonalities and differences, as well as best practices across our current corporate partnership approaches. This mapping exercise will result in an analysis of the currents trends and latest development within the Alliance, both at country and global levels, for corporate engagement and partnerships.
b) Review goals, principles and conditions of corporate engagement
This work will lead to the review of ChildFund Alliance’s current corporate guidelines. The goal is to define how, in its partnership with the private sector, the Alliance will be selective and ensure a corporate partner’s full alignment with ChildFund’s core values, as well as outline clear and agreed upon responsibilities and accountability of all partners.
Through this review, the consultant will need to:
• Update the Alliance review process for corporate engagement,
which include relevance, additionally, development impact, risk,
environmental and social governance standards (including CSR),
values (including human rights, core values, environment, child
labor, child safeguarding, anti-corruption, terrorism, etc.)
• Identify the type of partnerships that leverage the strengths of
the corporate sector on behalf of the world’s children, especially
the most vulnerable.
• Develop clear procedures for assessing and managing the risks of
engaging with private sector partners, which will take into
consideration the specificities of ChildFund Alliance work with and
for children.
• Recommend innovative engagement practices with the private
sector.
c) Recommend internal guidelines for cross-Alliance cooperation for corporate engagement
Based on the Alliance’s current protocols and procedures, the consultant will be asked to reflect on how the different members of the Alliance cooperate for corporate engagement, identify the value added and barriers to joint engagement, and recommend internal guidelines for cross-Alliance collaboration and cooperation for corporate engagement.
d) Provide advice and guidance on the potential implications for ChildFund Alliance
The consultant will take into consideration the global context that is shaping and influencing corporate engagement (Grand Bargain, Covid-19, etc.).
The consultant will suggest potential implications of endorsing and implementing the corporate engagement guidelines across ChildFund Alliance in relation to the current operational model. This should be broken down into benefits, challenges and proposed recommendations.
Key questions to be covered include:
• What is the appetite for private sector engagement (e.g.,
multi-national corporations, national companies, and small- to
medium-sized businesses)?
• What is the shared-value approach across all types of
partnerships (e.g., strategic
programmatic funding, advocacy, leveraging a company’s core
expertise and networks, and/or promoting child-rights principles in
responsible business practices) to make a transformational
difference for children?
• What is the appetite for risk amongst Alliance members regarding
engagement and
contractual arrangements between Alliance members and in-country
corporate partners?
• What are the key implications in terms of operations, finance,
and indirect cost-recovery for the existing ChildFund Alliance
structure?
5. Timeframe and Deliverables
Activities are scheduled to take place during 15 working days
between December 2021/January 2022 and March/April 2022. Outputs
and activities for this work are provided below. (Note that actual
dates are subject to discussion with the consultant.)
Outputs and Activities
• Finalization of contract
• Introductory chat with key ChildFund staff: context setting
and
sharing work plan and methodology
• Desk review background / context documents
• Virtual consultations with key stakeholders
• Draft deliverables
• Virtual consultations and feedback
• Final deliverables
Expected deliverables are as follow:
• Summary of key findings based on the initial desk review and
virtual consultations
• Reviewed Guidelines for Corporate Engagement
• Internal Guidelines for Cross-Alliance Corporate Engagement
• Review and analysis report
Throughout the consultancy, the ChildFund Alliance Secretariat and
the Alliance Corporate Subcommittee will:
• Provide relevant background documents to the consultant
• Be available for meetings over Skype/phone when needed
• Organize virtual stakeholder consultations when needed.
The Consultant will report to ChildFund Alliance Global Partnership Advisor. All reports and documents must be written in English and provided in an electronic format (Microsoft Word).
6. Required Qualifications and Experience
• University degree in social / development studies, or any other
relevant areas
• Significant experience in policy design, development, and
implementation in a development context
• Excellent knowledge of private sector engagement in development
and INGO structures
• Working experience and/or knowledge of civil society on the
national and local level
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in
English
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills
• Proven record of professional, timely and high-quality
consultancy assignments in the development, humanitarian and/or
non-profit sector
7. Conditions
The successful applicant will be required to comply with the
ChildFund Alliance Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures and to
sign the Code of Conduct. If the consultant will have direct,
contact with children or have access to children’s personal
information, a relevant Criminal Background Check must also be
completed.
The Parties shall treat all discussions and documents relating to this TOR as confidential. The ChildFund Alliance, its Board and staff make no express or implied representation or warranty as to the currency, reliability or completeness of the information contained in this TOR. Nothing in this TOR should be construed to give rise to any contractual obligations or rights, expressed or implied, by the issue of this TOR or the submission of an expression of interest in response to it. No contract will be created until a formal written agreement is executed between ChildFund and a selected consultant.
Applying
Please submit your expression of interest (EOI), in English,
to recruitment@childfundalliance.org by
30 November 2021. The EOI should include the Consultant’s CV,
detailed technical and financial proposal based on the TORs, and
availability between December 2021 and April 2022. Only finalists
will be contacted.
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