Position: Short-Term Consultant for Developing Training Manual
Reporting Line: Program Manager – Umang
Location: Ranchi
Number of Positions: 01
Time: 6 weeks, till 15th November 2022
About Project Concern International
Project Concern International (PCI) India, a registered society under the Society Registrations Act, has been working in India since 1998. With the vision of building a happy, healthy, safe, and sustainable world for all, PCI deploys community mobilization strategies to co-create and scale sustainable solutions to complex social issues and improve development outcomes.
PCI’s deep community connect built over decades equipped it to discover the root causes of social and developmental challenges faced by the marginalized communities. PCI drives interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by partnering with governments, private sectors, and development organizations. Over the last two decades, we have designed efficacious and scalable solutions to complex development problems such as improving child dietary diversity, gender-based violence, etc. which have been scaled-up by the government through its own resources. We are recognized as a high-quality technical partner to the state and national governments, having a partnership with the governments and/or the government-led institutions at national level and with the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, etc. Currently, we have presence in more than 13 states, directly reaching out to more than 7 million lives through our interventions focused on health, nutrition, women economic empowerment, gender, adolescents, social protection, and emergency response.
Please visit our website to learn more about our values, mission, vision and our work in India.
About Umang project
Umang project aims to empower members of self-help groups (SHGs) to enable them to support in fulfillment of aspirations of their adolescent daughters. Through this initiative, we aim to reduce the incidences of Child/Early marriage in the intervention areas and encourage alternate solutions available to adolescent girls. PCI will reach approximately 36,398 women in SHGs with curricula to challenge the acceptance of child marriage and support social organizing against the practice. We envision SHG members to become close confidantes of the adolescent girls and take actions towards enhancing the social value of a girl child. SHG members can be mother, grandmother or aunt of the adolescent girls (as per SHG membership from a Household).
Further, to ensure there is larger village level cohesiveness against Child Marriage and towards supporting adolescent girls, VO (Village Organization) and CLF (Cluster Level Federation) will also be capacitated to provide leadership to SHG members and the communities, for taking positive action/steps.
Consultant and Deliverables
- PCI is looking to recruit an individual consultant to develop few set of sessions which will be part of the overall Umang training modules. PCI UMANG team has identified certain core areas for development of the Training Manual for VO, CLF and Counselling package modules for schools (Adolescent girls) on which the consultant will develop, write and finalize the sessions and the associated training learning materials.
- Below table provides the details of the sessions to be developed in this consultancy. The development of Teaching Learning Material (TLM) is critical here. This exercise should involve process of creation of storylines or scenarios and will need to be interspersed with quizzes, games, puzzles, picture games, information nuggets, and case studies to enhance the learning experience as well as improve the interaction at the field level (target audience). Each session would range between 45 to 90 mins time period.
- The sessions will have case-stories for discussion, reflection to sensitize the participants as per need.
- The sessions will have games for reflection and engagement of participants in the session
- The sessions will have quiz to check on the learning of the participants.
- The sessions would be in hindi.
- The sessions should contain detailed facilitators’ notes, handouts and other supporting training/teaching learning materials.
- Each session will have clearly articulated learning objectives and Pre-post test tools.
- Each session will have action points for individual women to act upon; which will be linked to the next session or transform into collective action in the communities.
Training Sessions to be developed:
| Village Organization | Cluster Level Federation | Adolescent Girls |
| Session-1 Child marriage
(A) Strategy, responsibility sharing and how VO can act as a pressure group. (B) Recap and review of strategy progress and understanding the legal complexity Session-2- Scheme related to AG (a) Strategy and responsibility sharing and Help desk (b) Recap and review of strategy progress and discussion
Session-3 Community meeting (what we have done so far ,where are we now, expected support from other stakeholders )
Session-4 Discussion on different Laws ( Child marriage, child line)
Session-5 –Discussion on VLCPC,BLCPC and DLCPC (181,1098)
|
Session-1 Recap and review of all previous session
Session-2- How to Communicate with external stakeholders (PRI’s, Police, education dept…) Session-3- Introduction of Help desk and scheme related to AG Session-4– Discussion and roles responsibility of VLCPC, BLCPC and DLCPC. Session- 5- Data collection, analysis and presentation |
Session-1 – Educational and career guidance (Aspirations ,what is your aspirations, discussion on enablers and disablers related to education and categorized physical )
Session-2 – Discussion on SMC and legal support of 100, 1098,181, Session- 3 – Life skills (What, why,) Session 4 – Life skills and Menstrual Hygiene (Problem solving, Time management, stress management and decision making
Session-5 – Educational pathways & career pathways and Help desk
Session-6 – Addressing your barriers and strengthening your enablers
|
Below are some more action points and deliverables for this consultancy:
- Undertake a quick discussion with team members to further collect information about ground realities.
- Based on the given session plan, develop the content of the sessions, as per the present format of the other sessions are available with PCI team.
- In reference to the sessions, design and develop prototypes of the training/teaching learning materials/ handouts etc.
- The final product after accommodating all feedback should be ready to print or produced for actual on ground use.
- The consultant(s) will have to remain in constant touch or collaborate with PCI team (via the point person) for all sorts of reviews and receiving feedback and modify the modules/deliverables accordingly.
- The sessions as part of overall module should have a consistent look and feel as per the current available with PCI team.
Expected profile of consultant
The consultants should have the following essential skills and knowledge: –
- Demonstrable experience in module development, training material development, SBCC in the areas of women and girls’ empowerment at grassroots and school level.
- Technical experience and knowledge of gender equality, child marriage, and women’s and adolescent girls’ empowerment
- Familiarity with functioning of women collectives in three tier structure i.e. SHGs/VOs/CLFs and SRLMs in India is desirable.
Request for Technical and financial proposal:
As a response to this ToR, the interested individuals/consultants are requested to submit a technical proposal with following content:
- understanding about the ToR
- weekly plan for accomplishment of the task in 6 weeks’ time
- show the plan for coordination with PCI team
- Capacity and experience to prove your fitment to the role
5. Overall financial proposal – expectations including all applicable taxes
About Umang project
Umang project aims to empower members of self-help groups (SHGs) to enable them to support in fulfillment of aspirations of their adolescent daughters. Through this initiative, we aim to reduce the incidences of Child/Early marriage in the intervention areas and encourage alternate solutions available to adolescent girls. PCI will reach approximately 36,398 women in SHGs with curricula to challenge the acceptance of child marriage and support social organizing against the practice. We envision SHG members to become close confidantes of the adolescent girls and take actions towards enhancing the social value of a girl child. SHG members can be mother, grandmother or aunt of the adolescent girls (as per SHG membership from a Household).
Further, to ensure there is larger village level cohesiveness against Child Marriage and towards supporting adolescent girls, VO (Village Organization) and CLF (Cluster Level Federation) will also be capacitated to provide leadership to SHG members and the communities, for taking positive action/steps.
Consultant and Deliverables
- PCI is looking to recruit an individual consultant to develop few set of sessions which will be part of the overall Umang training modules. PCI UMANG team has identified certain core areas for development of the Training Manual for VO, CLF and Counselling package modules for schools (Adolescent girls) on which the consultant will develop, write and finalize the sessions and the associated training learning materials.
- Below table provides the details of the sessions to be developed in this consultancy. The development of Teaching Learning Material (TLM) is critical here. This exercise should involve process of creation of storylines or scenarios and will need to be interspersed with quizzes, games, puzzles, picture games, information nuggets, and case studies to enhance the learning experience as well as improve the interaction at the field level (target audience). Each session would range between 45 to 90 mins time period.
- The sessions will have case-stories for discussion, reflection to sensitize the participants as per need.
- The sessions will have games for reflection and engagement of participants in the session
- The sessions will have quiz to check on the learning of the participants.
- The sessions would be in hindi.
- The sessions should contain detailed facilitators’ notes, handouts and other supporting training/teaching learning materials.
- Each session will have clearly articulated learning objectives and Pre-post test tools.
- Each session will have action points for individual women to act upon; which will be linked to the next session or transform into collective action in the communities.
Training Sessions to be developed :
| Village Organization | Cluster Level Federation | Adolescent Girls |
| Session-1 Child marriage
(A) Strategy, responsibility sharing and how VO can act as a pressure group. (B) Recap and review of strategy progress and understanding the legal complexity Session-2- Scheme related to AG (a) Strategy and responsibility sharing and Help desk (b) Recap and review of strategy progress and discussion
Session-3 Community meeting (what we have done so far ,where are we now, expected support from other stakeholders )
Session-4 Discussion on different Laws ( Child marriage, child line)
Session-5 –Discussion on VLCPC,BLCPC and DLCPC (181,1098)
|
Session-1 Recap and review of all previous session
Session-2- How to Communicate with external stakeholders (PRI’s, Police, education dept…) Session-3- Introduction of Help desk and scheme related to AG Session-4– Discussion and roles responsibility of VLCPC, BLCPC and DLCPC. Session- 5- Data collection, analysis and presentation |
Session-1 – Educational and career guidance (Aspirations ,what is your aspirations, discussion on enablers and disablers related to education and categorized physical )
Session-2 – Discussion on SMC and legal support of 100, 1098,181, Session- 3 – Life skills (What, why,) Session 4 – Life skills and Menstrual Hygiene (Problem solving, Time management, stress management and decision making
Session-5 – Educational pathways & career pathways and Help desk
Session-6 – Addressing your barriers and strengthening your enablers
|
Below are some more action points and deliverables for this consultancy:
- Undertake a quick discussion with team members to further collect information about ground realities.
- Based on the given session plan, develop the content of the sessions, as per the present format of the other sessions are available with PCI team.
- In reference to the sessions, design and develop prototypes of the training/teaching learning materials/ handouts etc…
- The final product after accommodating all feedback should be ready to print or produced for actual on ground use.
- The consultant(s) will have to remain in constant touch or collaborate with PCI team (via the point person) for all sorts of reviews and receiving feedback and modify the modules/deliverables accordingly.
- The sessions as part of overall module should have a consistent look and feel as per the current available with PCI team.
Expected profile of consultant
The consultants should have the following essential skills and knowledge: –
- Demonstrable experience in module development, training material development, SBCC in the areas of women and girls’ empowerment at grassroots and school level.
- Technical experience and knowledge of gender equality, child marriage, and women’s and adolescent girls’ empowerment
- Familiarity with functioning of women collectives in three tier structure i.e. SHGs/VOs/CLFs and SRLMs in India is desirable
Request for Technical and financial proposal:
As a response to this ToR, the interested individuals/consultants are requested to submit a technical proposal with following content:
- understanding about the ToR
- weekly plan for accomplishment of the task in 6 weeks’ time
- show the plan for coordination with PCI team
- Capacity and experience to prove your fitment to the role
- Overall financial proposal – expectations including all applicable taxes.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Interested candidates can apply for the position of Short-Term Consultant for Developing Training Manual by 2nd October 2022,5:00 pm.
PCI India is an equal opportunity provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability and/or marital status. Due to the heavy inflow of resumes, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Female candidates are encouraged to apply.