International Consultant -Development of Curriculum and Training Toolkit Development

Duration: 15 April to 31 May (24 days)

Duty Station: Cairo, Egypt 

Purpose of cnsultancy:

In order to scale up awareness raising and address social norms change vis-à-vis family planning, as well as harmful practices of FGM and early marriage, Egypt CO is moving ahead with more focus on entertainment education strategies. Edutainment strategies, as any communication strategy for social change face diverse challenges but nevertheless, accumulated experiences from around the world show the effectiveness of this approach. In its work, Y-PEER become recognized for combining different strategies – knowledge management system (“what” and “how to”) with popular mass media and local media appeal with on-going coverage and enabling benefits of television and radio shows; community mobilization and coordination alliances with local organizations; social networking; use of new technologies, including educational video games, phone applications; training activities, interpersonal reinforcement mechanisms, as well as advocacy to change laws and policies; links with service delivery; ongoing monitoring and evaluation, and dissemination of results.

In order to further utilize the power of media and celebrities and document its experiences in this area, UNFPA, Egypt Country Office will subcontract a training / consultants team  to develop the curriculum (“Harnessing Potential of Celebrities in Advocating for Young People Issues”) and conduct the training for Y-PEER Ambassadors, selected Egyptian celebrities as well as selected Y-PEER focal points. In the line with that UNFPA is hiring an international consultant with experience in Y-PEER methodology for work with celebrities to develop training curriculum and exercises for celebrities.

Under this assignment the consultant will be responsible for:

·        Developing the training for celebrities course outline;

·        Designing and drafting interactive exercises building on Y-PEER methodology of participatory and experiential learning for celebrities training;

·        Developing the curriculum for a ToT course for celebrities;

·        Developing of a pre-post course assessment form;

•            Co-facilitating an inception training course for celebrities (Y-PEER Ambassadors).

All work will be delivered in electronic form - 

Deliverables and deadlines

Develop the training course outline - 3 days -  18 April

Design training exercises and finalize the inception training agenda - 7 days - 28 April

Facilitate an inception pilot training to finalize the curriculum - 4 days - 29 April to 2 May

Develop the curriculum and draft training  tool for celebrities - 10 days - 31 May

Required expertise and qualifications

• Experience in the area of public health, health promotion, education with special focus to ASRH;
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing Y-PEER   programs;
• Certified international trainer for work with Y-PEER celebrities
• Sound understanding and knowledge of Y-PEER training methodology;
• Experience in working with and facilitating the work of celebrities;
• Experience in facilitating interactive training sessions with the focus at the use of drama and theatre for social change
• Solid writing skills.

How to Apply:

Qualified experts are advised to submit their resumes, financial and technical proposals for the above mentioned consultancy, P11 form and references to egypt.jobs@unfpa.org by close of business on April 10^th, 2018 indicating the position title” Development of Curriculum and Training Toolkit Development”

as the subject line for the email.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered