Remote position - Home-Based Location.

About WIEGO
Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. We believe all workers should have equal economic opportunities and rights. WIEGO creates change by building capacity among organizations of workers in informal employment, expanding the knowledge base about the informal economy, and influencing local, national and international policies.

WIEGO School programme
The purpose of the role is to support the coordination and rollout of the WIEGO School. The School was piloted by WIEGO in three regions (Africa, Brazil and Asia) in 2022 and is now fully integrated into all programmes to build workers’ power. The School is aimed at the global and national leaders of WIEGO’s institutional members (membership-based organizations of street vendors, waste pickers, domestic workers and home-based workers), as well as other membership-based organizations of workers in the informal economy that WIEGO works with.
The objectives of the WIEGO School programme are: -
Objective 1: Prepare informal worker leaders, especially women, to work within their organizations to cultivate democratic values, procedures and outcomes; expand the depth and reach of their organisations through recruitment and organizing; develop mechanisms of transparency and accountability; and expand worker education.
Objective 2: Increase the ability of informal worker leaders to engage in collective bargaining with diverse counterparts—including local governments, supply chain actors, corporations and multilateral organizations—through specialized training in negotiation, including negotiation specifically with formalization programmes.
Objective 3: Deepen the capacity of MBO leaders to understand, analyze and advocate in the fast-changing policy contexts that directly affect their livelihoods through learning on all other aspects of WIEGO work—social protection, statistics, law and urban policies—alongside the development of popular education materials.
Objective 4: Train informal worker leaders in skills related to management, fundraising, communications, and organizational sustainability to inspire a long-term vision of their organizations within the changing world of work.
Embedded objectives of the School are to empower participants with participative worker education skills which can be taken back and applied in their own organizations and to build lasting solidarity between participants. Where activities are cross-sectoral, an embedded objective is to promote cross-sector learning and solidarity.

The Position
WIEGO is currently seeking a Worker Educator consultant to support the coordination and rollout of the WIEGO School. The consultant will be responsible for supporting the WIEGO School coordinator in conceptualising, planning and implementing the WIEGO School programme.
The programme will be rolled out through a combination of virtual and face-to-face activities facilitated by WIEGO team members and key consultants as well as by partner organizations.