Temporary INTERNATIONAL CSR CONSULTANT
Job Description
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a significant issue in the global business community and is now viewed as a central consideration in the way many companies conduct their business. Stakeholders such as investors, consumers, communities, employees and government officials are increasingly demanding that companies behave responsibly and look at how their positive impact on society can be maximized. UNDP views CSR as a spectrum of business activities ranging from philanthropy on one end via strategic social investments to how business processes can become more sustainable and contribute more effectively to equitable development. UNDP’s work on CSR includes supporting multi-stakeholder activities with companies of all sizes, from multinational corporations to local indigenous enterprises, to develop accelerated solutions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
As part of its efforts to advocate for CSR practices and engage the private sector in policy dialogue, UNDP plays a lead role in the UN Global Compact, which today is the largest CSR initiative in the world. UNDP facilitates Global Compact networks in more than 40 developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Further, the Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) initiative is a UNDP-led global multi-stakeholder research and advocacy initiative that seeks to understand, enable and inspire the development of more inclusive business models around the globe that will help to create new opportunities and better lives for many of the world’s poor. The GIM approach seeks to demonstrate how business can significantly contribute to human development by including the poor in the value chain as consumers, producers, business owners or employees (‘inclusive business models’). GIM highlights portraits of successful simultaneous pursuits of revenues and social impact by private actors, from social entrepreneurs to local small and medium-sized enterprises, large domestic companies and multinational corporations, but also state-owned companies and civil society organizations. By doing so, GIM contributes to human development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). |
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The Consultant will work on deepening the collaboration of the UN Global Compact and the Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) initiative in the area of business school education. Specially, the Consultant will work with academic participants of Global Compact through the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative and engage faculty from participating academic institutions to a) embed and address inclusive business models as part of the responsible management education curricula and research, b) develop new and analyze existing GIM cases, and c) contribute to the dissemination of the findings of the GIM report “Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor”; monitor and analyze progress made of PRME initiative overall; review relevant documents and reports on the progress by participating academic institutions; identify issues and gives input to the strategic plan for the development of PRME.
Further, the Consultant will contribute to the organization of the Global Compact Annual Local Networks Forum in May 2011; provide substantive support for the development and drafting of the local network annual report with a specific view to business education; and assist in collecting and reviewing data for the Local Network Knowledge Sharing System.
In addition, the Consultant will:
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How to Apply
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