Human Rights Due Diligence Consultant
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Human Rights Due Diligence Consultant
Period: November 1-December 15, 2026
Level of effort: 15 days
Location: Remote
Group: Human Rights
1. Background and Purpose
Winrock International's Human Rights team works across fair labor and human trafficking, child safety and well-being, and women’s empowerment. This work includes engagement with private companies to identify and mitigate risks and promote fair labor practices in their supply chains. The consultancy will translate this expertise into practical business service tools for human rights due diligence (HRDD), responsible sourcing, and risk management, while considering integration with Winrock’s other ESG service offerings in ecosystems, natural resource management, climate and energy, and sustainable and resilient agriculture.
The assignment has two objectives:
- Business engagement and practical services: translating current Winrock Human Rights approaches into consolidated yet adaptable HRDD, risk assessment, grievance, and remedy tools;
2.Integrated Winrock offerings: recommend differentiated joint services, including resilient agriculture in contexts of climate migration and displacement, integrated environmental and human rights assessments, responsible supply chains, and just-transition approaches.
2. Scope of Work
Task 1. Inception and asset review
- Confirm priority sectors, geographies, audiences, existing relationships, success criteria, and workplan with the Human Rights team.
- Review relevant Winrock strategies, tools, capability materials, project examples, and lessons; conduct internal and (if approved) external consultations.
- Prepare an inception note with methodology, schedule, and an inventory of tools and communications assets.
Task 2. Practical HRDD toolkit
- Assess existing Human Rights team and cross-Winrock tools and case examples for business relevance, readiness, evidence strength, ownership/licensing, and adaptation needs.
- Develop an editable, adaptable toolkit that includes:
- HRDD tools like human rights risk screening, grievance reporting, and value-chain and stakeholder mapping; integrated human rights and environmental risk/impact assessment framework
- Operational-level grievance mechanism diagnostic; remedy and corrective-action template; supplier engagement diagnostic; and monitoring indicators
- Short user guidance covering intended use, evidence needs, limitations, safeguarding, confidentiality, retaliation risks, and when specialist or legal advice is needed.
Task 4. Tool packaging and communications
- Develop a packaging plan that groups tools into client-facing service packages and specifies the client problem, intended user, components, customization, delivery format, staffing, limitations, and next step for completion or piloting.
- Identify additional tools or templates to develop, revise, simplify, digitize, or test.
- Prepare a one-pager describing the suite of HRDD and broader Winrock ESG tools that can be used for outreach.
- Presentation of final package of tools to Winrock team. Refinement of deliverables based on feedback from the team, as needed.
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