100-1000 - Analysis of Compensation in the Canadian Agriculture Sector

The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC), in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and Food and Beverage Canada (FBC) are leading the development of a National Workforce Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Food and Beverage Manufacturing. Compensation has been identified as a key area that requires more research and understanding in order to inform the Plan.
The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC), in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and Food and Beverage Canada (FBC) are leading the development of a National Workforce Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Food and Beverage Manufacturing. Compensation has been identified as a key area that requires more research and understanding in order to inform the Plan.

2.1 Objective
The objective of this Request for Proposal is to select an organization to:

• Conduct an environmental scan and gap analysis to identify existing compensation data sources available for agriculture and food and beverage manufacturing;
• Conduct a pilot compensation survey for two specific agriculture commodity groups to test the feasibility of a wider sector compensation survey. and;
• Develop a compensation benchmarking tool that will be accessible from the CAHRC website.

• Collect data from these sources.
• Identify gaps in available data.
• Analyze how the agriculture industry compares to other industries.
• Conduct a compensation survey, including analyze data, synthesize it into compensation ranges, and validate accuracy of data ranges through an on-line survey for two specific agricultural commodities.
• Develop an on-line compensation benchmarking tool that can be accessed from CAHRC’s website and utilized by employers on a self-serve basis going forward.

• A proposed work plan to accomplish the objectives of the project. This will outline all processes and timelines for the project including all research efforts, approach, methodology, background research activities, data collection activities for qualitative and quantitative inputs, lines of enquiry, sampling strategy, data capture and storage, data analysis, validation methods and documentation plans. The sampling strategy will ensure full representation of the agriculture and food and beverage manufacturing sectors in Canada.
• Research instruments (e.g. survey instruments, interview guides and focus group protocols, and presentation materials to support data collection phases).
• Draft and final research report summarizing environmental scan findings.
• Draft and final survey instrument.
• On-line benchmarking tool.
• Draft and final compensation report for each commodity.
• Monthly status reports on the progress of the project.

• The proposal must be received by the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council before the specified closing time.
• The proposal must be in English and must be submitted by email in PDF format.
• Submissions must not exceed fifteen (15) pages, excluding consultant CV’s. Proposals exceeding this limit shall be disqualified.
• All proposals must include bidder’s name and quote the title of the project.
• The research team must include at least one member with at least ten years ‘experience in:

• Research, including qualitative collection methods including the ability to conduct, collect data from, analyze, interpret and report on interviews, focus groups and surveys.
• The ability to collect, analyze, interpret and report on quantitative labour market data.

• The research team must have experience conducting industry-wide, national compensation research.
• The research team must have knowledge of the agriculture and food and beverage manufacturing sectors in Canada.
• The research team must include one or more members that have a minimum of 5 years of experience in each of project management, facilitation, presentation skills and experience delivering large scale research projects.
• The research team must include team members with French language proficiency in written and oral communications to support data collection, communications and meetings in French.