International Consultant: Baseline Assessment on Ethical Recruitment and Employment Practices of Immigrants in Georgia

The consultant will conduct a comprehensive baseline assessment on ethical recruitment and employment practices of immigrants in Georgia under the REforM project. The role involves leading research, stakeholder consultations, analysis of legal frameworks, and producing reports to inform ethical recruitment standards and capacity-building activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the overall implementation of the assessment, providing technical guidance to the national consultant and ensuring consistency across all research, consultation, data collection, analysis, and reporting activities
• Review the materials summarizing the legal, policy, regulatory, and institutional framework governing the recruitment and employment of immigrants in Georgia, together with a stakeholder mapping
• Develop a detailed assessment methodology, work plan, and research framework, including a mixed-methods approach combining different methods of data collection
• Participate in initial stakeholder consultation workshop(s) and guide the consultation process
• Analyze the legal and policy framework governing recruitment and employment of immigrants and assess its alignment with international ethical recruitment principles and standards including the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS), the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and relevant international labour standards
• Assess current recruitment and employment practices affecting immigrants, including recruitment channels, information provision, recruitment-related costs, contract transparency, working conditions, equal treatment, occupational safety and health, access to social protection, and dispute resolution mechanisms
• Examine the availability, accessibility and effectiveness of information provided to immigrants regarding the recruitment rights, complaint mechanisms, and available remedies
• Assess the capacity and training needs of recruitment agencies, employers, HR professionals and relevant institutions regarding ethical recruitment and employment of immigrants
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for strengthening ethical recruitment practices among recruitment agencies, employers, and other relevant stakeholders
• Identify practical entry points for strengthening ethical recruitment and employment practices through awareness-raising, capacity-building, information provision, stakeholder engagement, and protection-oriented interventions targeting immigrants, employers, recruitment agencies, and relevant institutions
• Formulate evidence-based and stakeholder-specific recommendations to inform the development of ethical recruitment standards, practical guidance materials, information resources for immigrants, and capacity-building activities for recruitment agencies, employers, HR departments, and other stakeholders
• Develop a practical roadmap outlining priority actions, key stakeholders, suggested responsibilities, potential partnerships, indicative timelines and capacity development needs for strengthening ethical recruitment and employment practices in Georgia
• Prepare and submit a draft baseline assessment report presenting the methodology, findings, analysis and recommendations
• Participate in validation workshop and present the consolidated baseline assessment report to the stakeholders and incorporate stakeholders’ feedback accordingly
• Submit the final report, reflecting stakeholders’ input from the validation workshop

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in migration studies, labour law, public policy, social sciences, human rights, development studies, or a related field
• Proven professional experience conducting research and assessments on labour migration, recruitment, labour rights, ethical recruitment, migrant protection, or related areas
• Expertise in international ethical recruitment frameworks and labour migration governance would be an asset
• Proven experience designing and supervising quantitative and qualitative research, including surveys
• Experience working with private sector actors, employers, recruitment agencies, and labour market stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and report-writing skills
• Previous experience working with international organizations, donor-funded projects, or UN agencies is desirable
• Excellent command of English is required
• Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments

Skills

• Labour Migration Research
• Ethical Recruitment Frameworks
• Labour Rights Assessment
• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research
• Survey Design
• Multi-Stakeholder Consultation
• Report Writing
• Migrant Protection
• Labour Migration Governance
• Private Sector Engagement
• Recruitment Agency Collaboration
• Legal Framework Assessment
• Capacity Building
• Donor-funded Project Experience
• UN Agency Collaboration

Languages

English