Applications to be submitted on: www.inductusjobs.com/un (pdf format only)
Position: Consultant Technical Assistance to WCD & Child Development on Schemes & Services for Adolescent Empowerment, Ending Child Marriage and Parenting
Employing Agency (Employer): Inductus Limited
Duration of the contract: Till 31stDec2025 from the date of joining (extendable for further period based on the consultant’s performance and fund availability)

Remuneration: Gross compensation budgeted for the position is very attractive. Please note that the offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary history. Applicants to mention their current professional fee & expected professional fee on www.inductusjobs.com/un

No. of Vacancy: 1 Positions (One)
Duty Station    : Women and Child Department, Government of Odisha
Reporting Line: (1)Administrative Supervision- Inductus Limited: (2)Child Protection Specialist - Bhubaneshwar
Last Date for Application: 16th Apr 2025(Mid-Night)

TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
 PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT ON SCHEMES & SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENT EMPOWERMENT, ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE AND PARENTING

1.                BACKGROUND/RATIONALE

India has the largest adolescent population in the world, 253 million, and every fifth person is between 10 to 19 years old. India stands to benefit socially, politically, and economically if this large number of adolescents are safe, healthy, educated, and equipped with information and life skills to support the country’s continued development. Both adolescent girls and boys lack access to information on issues affecting their lives and have limited spaces to develop competencies crucial for active participation. Adolescent girls, especially, are exposed to multiple layers of vulnerability due to pernicious social norms affecting the value of girls, which in turn affects their ability to move freely and to make decisions affecting their work, education, marriage, and social relationships.

About 43 percent of girls drop out before completing secondary education due to household responsibilities, marriage, child labour, limited relevance of education for employment and employability, distance to school, and/or lack of sanitation facilities at the school. Menstruation disrupts the lives of girls in ways that are unimaginable in many countries. At least 42 percent of girls in India use cloth rather than disposable sanitary napkins. Child marriage, a deeply rooted social norm, provides glaring evidence of widespread gender inequality and discrimination. Odisha has 20.5% child marriages and 7.6% of adolescent girls in Odisha are pregnant or mothers by the age of 19. The sex Ratio at Birth (SRB), declined to 894 girls per 1000 males. In Odisha, crimes against women also witnessed an increase in number of registered cases from 25,489 to 31,352 from 2020 to 2021. Violence negatively affects women’s general well-being and prevents women from fully participating in society. It impacts their families, their community, and the country at large. It has tremendous costs, from greater strains on health care to legal expenses and losses in productivity.

Note : Applicants to download the TOR for details like education, experience, deliverables, deadlines, skill set, travel etc., 

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