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2023/PL/9357

Job offer type
Experts

Type of contract
Detachment of a public or semi-public administration officer

Activity sectors
Social protection and decent work

Deadline date
2023/05/21 23:59

Duration of the assignment
Beaded expertise

Contract
Public / Parapublic

Mission description

The caregiving field of employment has the largest number of foreign workers in Israel with over 57,000 legal workers and some 12,000 illegal workers. The main issues related to these workers are as follows:

  • Insufficient regulatory coverage of the foreign workers’ rights in the legislation concerning the length of the working day, vacation, holidays, payments, pensions etc.
  • Insufficient knowledge of the migrant workers of the legislation and institutions protecting their rights.
  • Sensitivity of the sector, where employer and employee relationships are not ordinary and are subject to many personalized or individualized circumstances.

The Twinning Project intervention is aimed at helping the unit to learn from the best practices effective in EU Member States. Building on the establishment of a well-functioning Unit, the Commissionership now needs to acquire further expertise to move from the individual response it provides to employees, to establishing and disseminating best practices to create a working environment that in itself protects workers’ rights by, inter alia, also raising awareness and perception among the relevant stakeholders.

The overall objective (expected impact) of the Project is to improve the protection of foreign workers’ labour rights in the caregiving sector. The specific objective (expected outcome) is to enhance the Commissioner’s efficiency in the empowerment of foreign employees and their employers for self-enforcement of the labour rights in the caregiving sector.

Therefore, the Twinning Project will consist of two main components: (i) Institutional capacity building and improvements and (ii) Improved awareness of stakeholders on best practices and improvement of employee wellbeing.

The Mandatory Results of the project per component would be the following:

    • Component 1: Institutional capacity building and improvements
      • Report on the analysis of Israel’s current legal and institutional framework vs best practices in the field, with recommendations to amend currently effective legislation
      • Communication strategy for raising the awareness of the target groups in 2023-2025
      • Improved professional and technical capacity of the Unit and related state agencies (PIBA, Ministry of Welfare, and others)
      • Enhance the Unit’s information platform for increasing the knowledge of target groups on legislation and best practices
    • Component 2: Improved awareness of the stakeholders on best practices in the caregiving sector
      • Improved awareness of state agencies on best practices effective in the EU MS caregiving sector
      • Improved awareness of caregiving sector participants

 

Project or context description

The Foreign Workers' Labour Rights Commissioner is a unit within the Ministry of Economy in Israel, whose mandate originates from the Foreign Workers Law No 5751-1991. This unit is tasked with promoting awareness and implementation of the labour rights of foreign workers employed in the Israeli working fields. As part of its mandate, the unit is tasked, inter alia, with investigating complaints where suspicion of violation of foreign workers' labour rights arises, and cultivating public awareness on matters within its area of activities through education, instruction and advocacy. Furthermore, the unit is authorized to promote collaboration within and outside the government, for, inter alia, promoting the establishment of protocols and actions, managing legal proceedings, and participating in them.

Required profile

Job Title: Project Leader (PL)

Requirements:

  • University degree in relevant social science, public policy or law, or equivalent professional experience of 8 years
  • A minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience in an EU MS administration/assimilated dealing with issues related to labour migration sector
  • Experience in working on implementation of EU policy and/or regulations
  • Experience in formulating long-term strategic plans to implement social change
  • Proven experience working on protection of rights of workers or in the labour migration sector
  • Expertise in ethics, elderly age groups and caregiving
  • Excellent command of spoken and written English and French

 

Assets:

  • Experience in international cooperation projects in neighbouring and/or candidate countries as regards alignment on employment and/or migration policies

 

The Project Leader is responsible for the activities assigned to his/her administration in the various work plans and must be work plans and must be able to participate every three months in the project steering committees.

His/her mission is to:

 

  • Overall management and coordination of the implementation of the twinning project in cooperation with the Beneficiary Country (BC) Project Leader
  • Ensure timely and effective implementation of the project and achievements of results
  • Monitoring and evaluating the needs and priorities in the respective sector, project risks, progress against the project budget, benchmarks, and outputs, and taking any necessary remedial actions if needed
  • He/she will, together with the beneficiary PL, be responsible for the modification of the project work plan as deemed necessary during the life time of the project;
  • Providing efficient leadership of the project;
  • Together with beneficiary PL, will be responsible for interim, final reports and project reporting;
  • Ensuring backstopping and financial management of the project;
  • Participation in Steering Committee meetings and communicate with stakeholders.

Additional information

  • Applicants shall be civil-servants or serving in public or semi-public institutions  in France
  • Applicants must be French citizens
  • Proficiency in office computers and the most commonly used software (Office Suite);
  • Interpersonal skills and ability to manage a multicultural team;
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills;
  • Confidentiality and availability

 

Documents and information to be provided:

Applications should be sent by email with:

- CV in Europass format ;

- Covering letter;

Deadline for application : 2023/05/21 23:59

Expertise France is the public agency for designing and implementing international technical cooperation projects. The agency operates around four key priorities :

  • democratic, economic, and financial governance ;
  • peace, stability, and security ;
  • climate, agriculture, and sustainable development ;
  • health and human development ;

In these areas, Expertise France conducts capacity-building initiatives and manages project implementation, leveraging technical expertise and acting as a project coordinator. This involves combining public sector expertise with private sector skills to drive impactful results. 

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