The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Nigeria in Abuja is seeking to employ a suitable and qualified candidate for the position below:
Job Title: Consultant (To Develop and Provide Training on Parenting Framework and Curriculum)
Location: Off-Site and Abuja, Nigeria-4Children CRS Office
Duration: 8th August – November 2016
CRS Contact Person: Tapfuma Murove, Chief of Party, 4Children in Nigeria
Objective
- To develop a standard guidance as framework, tools and curriculum needed to guide parenting practices in Nigeria.
- The consultant will work with 4Children Parenting Technical Advisor and focal persons from 16 PEPFAR implementing partners to review current practices and articulate findings into a harmonized guidance for national programming.
Background
- In January 2016, 4Children began a two-year, USAID- funded technical assistance project in Nigeria.
- The overarching objective of the SoW is for 4Children to provide Technical Assistance to USAID and CDC IPs in responsible graduation and transition 1 of OVC, Households, communities, LGAs and states as part of the PEPFAR pivot and respective of PEPFAR 3.0 priorities.
- The SoW also included a focus on supporting prioritized actions and strategies for the geographic areas identified by PEPFAR as scale-up local government areas (LGAs).
- The technical assistance provided by 4Children over the next two year period will achieve the following:
- Development of guidance, strategies and tools to support improved HES and parenting.
- Strengthened linkages among and referrals between community and clinic based OVC services, including strategies for reaching more children living with WV (CLH IV) within the OVC population.
- Strengthened capacity of government system (LGA and state level) to advocate, plan for and use funds for OVC.
- Strategies for delivering critical OVC services at clinical facilities.
- Guidance and examples of interventions targeting adolescent girls and young women that address their increased vulnerability to both child protection concerns and HIV and can be easily integrated into existing programming.
- To successfully address many of the issues related to graduation and transition, improved ans strengthened sustainability plans and strategies must be in place, utilized and under food by all actors, and include appropriate support to Implementing Partners, CSOs and States to successfully manage sustainable graduation and transition of beneficiaries in FYi 6-FYi 7, The two-year work plan includes a specific output related to the improvement of parenting practices of caregivers involved in OVC programs in Nigeria (see Annex 1 for I R 2.5).
- The first step in identifying what additional parenting training curricula content needs to be developed, a review of existing parenting training curricula will be conducted. These curricula will be assessed against the framework thus helping to identifying strengths and gaps of the curricula currently being used by OVC Implementing Partners. The findings of the review will inform the development of additional content that is contextually appropriate, evidence based and addresses the unique needs of children living with or affected by HIV in Nigeria.
- A framework was developed to help guide the review process and enable 4Children Nigeria to have a comprehensive understanding of what is currently being used within OVC programs and what content needs to he developed to meet the identified needs of the program in diverse contexts.
Description of Work
- The consultants will use relevant expertise in parenting approaches and training methodology combined with information gleaned from existing literature reviews of parenting training programs, guidance and research on the topic2 to do the following:
Special Task
Specific tasks to be performed during the time period of 8 August – 16 November, 2016, include:
- Meet with 4Children Parenting and Youth Technical Advisor
- Review background information about project and context
- Work plan
- Parenting curricula literature review
- Parenting curricula collated from IPs
- Standardized and contextually appropriate parenting curriculum draft and TOT Manual to beheld in Abuja, Nigeria August 16-15,2016
- Co-facilitate at the Validation workshop, TOT batch A (29th August) and B (11th November, Care givers workshop and children living with HIV and children parliament workshops
- Prepare all necessary workshop materials as required
- Review meeting space ahead of the workshops
- Produce workshop reports with input om other facilitators and PYTA
- Review draft parenting assessment framework template that will be used by PYTA to review the 11 curricula used by IPs in Nigeria.
- Review parenting curriculum and TOT Facilitator’s Guide (to be used to train IPs and government staff at the TOT)
- Participate at pre-workshop orientation meeting with Lead Technical Director from Maestro, 4Children Parenting and Youth Technical Advisor
Deliverables
1.) Participate in pre-workshop planning meeting, the validation workshop for all relevant stakeholder on the parenting curriculum and post workshop meeting.
Due Date: August 14 – 17
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 4
2.) Incorporate feedback from validation workshop and submit report
Due Date: August 22 – 24
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
3.) Attend pre TOT meeting and facilitate a TOT on the adapted parenting curriculum
Due Date: August 24 – September 2
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 8
4.) Develop TOT report and submit
Due Date: September 5 – 7
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
5.) Facilitate a workshop with representatives from CLHIV and ALHIV, children’s parliament or other child led advocacy groups to review the content of the parenting curriculum
Due Date: September 13 – 15
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
6.) Incorporate feedback from children workshop and submit report
Due Date: September 16 – 20
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
7.) Facilitate a workshop for caregivers to review the content of the parenting curriculum
Due Date: October 11 – 13
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
8.) Incorporate feedback from caregivers workshop and submit report
Due Date: October 14 – 18
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
9.) Attend pre TOT meeting and facilitate a TOT on the adapted parenting curriculum
Due Date: November 2 – 11
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 8
10.) Develop TOT report and submit
Due Date: November 14 – 16
Maximum Numbers of Consultancy Days: 3
Total (Maximum) Days: 41
Supervision, reporting and oversight:
- The consultant’s primary point of contact under this consultancy wiH be to the 4Children Nigeria, Parenting and Youth Advisor, Ruth Haruna, for all programmatic issues with support from Dr. Tapfuma Murove, 4C Project Director.
- Deliverables will be submitted to both the Project Director and to the 4Children PYTA.
Working Relationships:
- The consultant(s) will be expected to work in collaboration with the following 4Children staff and partners in Nigeria: 4Children Parenting and Youth Technical Advisor and PEPFAR-OVC IP staff (includes both international and local NGOs).
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates/consultants should send their expression of interest (EOl) along with a detailed resume as attached MS word documents to:ng_hr@global.crs.org
Note
- The resume should include but not limited to the following: Expected daily rate, personal profile, skills, competencies and suitability for the assignment as well as readiness for immediate short-term consultancy, plus a copy of such previous work.
- Only qualified candidates will be contacted and invited for screening.
1st August, 2016.
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