Consultant for Development of Facilitator-s Guide for Life Skills Curriculum Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Lebanon

Summary : Consultant for Development of Facilitator-s Guide for Life Skills Curriculum

Deadline : 10 Jul 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 34078978

Document Ref. No. : PR/BS-B/2019/077

Competition : ICB

Financier : Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : SAVE THE CHILDREN
Administration Office, SCI, Lebanon Country Office, Beirut Main Office, 1st Floor, Bloc B, Sodeco Building, Al Nasra Street, Ashrafieh, Beirut
Lebanon

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultant for Development of Facilitator-s Guide for Life Skills Curriculum.

Transferrable life skills are increasingly recognize globally as a critical foundation in adolescents and youth development, specifically in strengthening their transition to decent work and livelihood success. Save the Children (SC) has developed a standardized approach to designing and implementing transferrable life skills within Adolescent Skills for Successful Transitions programming. “Life Skills for Success” is Save the Children-s common approach to the development of a set of foundational skills, competencies, behaviors, attitudes, and personal qualities which enable young people to effectively navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals. In Lebanon, the Life Skills for Success (LS4S) common approach is systematically applied to all SC-s life skills sessions within livelihoods programming.

The Syria Adolescent Program is a 3-year regional program funded by SIDA, with the overall objective that adolescents aged 14-19 affected by the Syria crisis are resilient and act as agents of change in their society. Specific objectives of the program relate to child rights and participation, protection, and livelihoods opportunities. In terms of specific livelihoods interventions, this project aims to strengthen adolescent girls- and boys- skills and transition to decent work through the provision of life skills and vocational trainings. Adolescent girls- and boys- will be also given the opportunity to translate the skills acquired into practice through professional traineeships, technical apprenticeships, and youth-led community projects.

Scope of the consultancy

In the context of the described project, the consultant will review the existing lifeskills activity manual developed by the Lebanon Country Office and develop a facilitator-s guide. The facilitator-s guide will include step-by-step guidance for frontline project staff on how to conduct the activities, how to prepare for and debrief activities, and in general how to ensure that learning objectives for each of the life skills competencies are achieved. This guide will accompany the existing activity book a guiding document for facilitators to reference. It is also expected that the consultant will provide a TOT for the SC FSL teams and partners teams to ensure their confidence on both the content and the mechanism for facilitation.

Objectives

- Deliver a facilitator-s guide in line with the existing activity manual and the LS4S common approach.

- Ensure that frontline facilitators are confident in the material and well-prepared to deliver life skills sessions.

Required competencies

The successful candidate will have the following required qualifications:

- Advanced university degree in social sciences or any related field.

- Demonstrated experience developing Learning and Development materials for SCI is required.

- Expert knowledge of life skills content, particularly the Life Skills for Success common approach.

- Knowledge of cross-cutting issues and relevant approaches for adolescents and youth, in particular conflict sensitivity and gender transformative approaches.

- Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic.

- Proven experience providing training to diverse audiences, with excellent record in training of trainers.

- Good inter-personal and teamwork skills.

How to apply

Interested bidders are required to submit a technical and financial proposal with the relevant budget needed either as a soft copy on the following email: [email protected]including the subject: "PR/BS-B/2019/077 Consultancy: Development of facilitator-s guide for life skills curriculum" or as hard copy addressed to Save the Children International at the below address:

Administration Office, SCI, Lebanon Country Office, Beirut Main Office, 1st Floor, Bloc B, Sodeco Building, Al Nasra Street, Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon.

The envelope should be labelled as such:

- PR/BS-B/2019/077

- Consultancy: Development of facilitator-s guide for life skills curriculum

The deadline of submitting the bids is on July 10, 2019 at 15:00 PM

Documents

 Tender Notice