Consultant

Vacancy Announcement for Consultant Position

About the Organization:

SETU Nepal is a national non-profit organization established in 2001 with a mission to work with women in vulnerable situations to create a just environment for them and their children. Initiated with prison programs, SETU Nepal supports people living with HIV & AIDS (PLWHA) in—Entrepreneurial skill development, Business start-up seed money, Psychosocial counseling, and Healthcare support. Education support programs for infected and affected children and providing a quality nurturing for the residential kids in the transit home remains a vital part of our program. In addition, it builds capacities through targeted initiatives on assets-based livelihoods and climate change adaptation, supports women's economic empowerment that aims to promote independent, decent and dignified life for our targeted beneficiaries in Nepal. SETU Nepal gives best inputs to further widen our arena in all these thematic focused areas. SETU is also partnering with the UN Trust Fund for a project aiming to empower women living with HIV (WLHIV) and relevant duty bearers to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) and challenge stigma and discrimination in community and healthcare settings with focused capacity building and advocacy initiatives in Nepal. The proposed project will work collaboratively with the WLHIV and relevant duty bearers to address intersectional stigma and discrimination that adversely affects HIV-positive women in Nepal. SETU is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Consultant for the "Mapping of available essential public services and referral support relevant to WLHIV and survivors of violence and preparing a screening reporting guideline on intimate partner violence, WLHIV denial of care, discriminatory attitudes, and inappropriate pathologizing in community and healthcare settings”.

Job Title: Consultant for Mapping of available essential public services and referral support relevant to WLHIV and survivors of violence and preparing a screening reporting guideline on intimate partner violence, WLHIV denial of care, discriminatory attitudes, and inappropriate pathologizing in community and healthcare settings

Required Number: 1

Scope of work

• Identify key public services available in three specific project areas ( Kathmandu, Nawalparasi and Kaski District) that are relevant to women living with HIV (WLHIV) and survivors of violence. 
• Identify the current gaps in services, support, and referral mechanisms for WLHIV and survivors of violence in the targeted areas.
• Coordinate with stakeholders (healthcare service providers, government officials, police etc) including WLHIV and survivors of violence for gathering information on current services and support.
• Identify and report intimate partner violence, healthcare denial, and discrimination against WLHIV. 
• Develop a comprehensive inventory of available services, focusing on healthcare, legal support, shelter, and psychosocial services that specifically cater to WLHIV and survivors of violence.
• Document the accessibility, location, eligibility criteria, and quality of services at targeted districts.
• Identify the current referral systems in place between healthcare, legal services, community organizations, and other relevant entities to ensure that WLHIV and survivors can access a continuum of care.
• Design referral forms to connect WLHIV and survivors of violence with essential services, and follow-up forms to track service delivery, remove gapping on referral support mechanism and improve effective coordination.
• Prepare history record forms to document case histories and case study templates for analyzing and monitoring individual cases.
• Assess existing guidelines denial of care, discriminatory attitudes, and inappropriate pathologizing in community and healthcare settings.
• Create screening tools or questionnaires for use in healthcare and community settings to identify instances denial of care, and discrimination against WLHIV.
• Develop clear guidelines for reporting incidents denial of care and ensure that the screening and reporting guidelines prioritize the safety, privacy, and confidentiality of survivors.
• Ensure all forms and guidelines are user-friendly, culturally appropriate, and effective for healthcare workers, social service providers, and community leaders

Academic qualification/skills:

• Advanced university degree in sociology, gender social work or other social sciences, public/community health, or related field with minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Prior working experience in gender and GBV issues and their application in development settings.
• Experience of working  in designing, mapping and preparing guidelines  services on women living with HIV (WLHIV) and survivors of violence
• Familiarity with international standards, policies and tools related to GBV including GBV Guidelines, protocols.
• Knowledge and experience of essential service packages and other case handling approaches from GBV survivor centric approach.
• Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving and team skills, and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders to effectively negotiate and build consensus to achieve constructive outputs.
• Experience working with the Government system would be an asset.

Remuneration: As per the rules and regulations of SETU Nepal.

Interested Nepali citizens who meet the above criteria are encouraged to apply with a cover letter showing their interest including mailing address and telephone number along with two references to Executive Director by 28th October 2024 to info@setunepal.org

Telephone enquiries will not be entertained. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further screening process. SETU Nepal reserves the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reasons.

SETU Nepal promotes workforce diversity and applies positive discrimination to the candidates from socially excluded groups. Applications from and members of indigenous, disadvantaged and sexual minority groups are highly encouraged.

(“SETU Nepal is committed to safeguarding and a zero-tolerance organization related to GBV, child abuse, corruption, bribery, fraud etc.”)