Consultancy Services - Design of Training Materials

Post Date: June 28, 2012
Deadline July 6, 2012

Company: Family Health International (FHI 360)-Ethiopia

Back ground
Family Health International (FHI) is a development agency providing technical assistance in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, food and nutrition, livelihood, communications, education programming which provides technical assistance to the Ethiopian government as well as NGOs and other stakeholders in the response to AIDS and development areas in Ethiopia. Family Health International has been in Ethiopia since 1996 providing technical assistance primarily in health and later in various development areas. FHI-Ethiopia`s efforts are funded by the United States Government through the bilateral agreement between the United States and the Ethiopian Government.

One of the projects being implemented by FHI 360-Ethiopia is Yekokeb Berhan HVC. It is a USAID funded project in which PACT-Ethiopia is the prime recipient while FHI 360-Ethiopia and Child fund are sub-recipients. The HVC project focuses on addressing the varied needs of highly vulnerable children and their families in Ethiopia using different technical intervention mechanisms.

Thus FHI 360-Ethiopia would like to invite well experienced and competent firms and/or individuals to submit their applications to be available to provide consultancy services as and when needed by the organization in the following area: -

Design, developing and reviewing training materials (curriculums, manuals, guidelines, simple Job Aids and other training related materials) for community workers and households.

The consultant is expected to design, develop and review training materials (curriculum, manuals, guidelines, job Aid and other training materials) the in the areas of psychosocial support, Life skills, Child health and nutrition and Child protection and shelter and Care.
• The consultant reviews curriculums that are already prepared by program staffs.
• The consultant will work closely with concerned FHI 360 technical person/team while undertaking the assignment.
• The consultant develops training materials, guidelines, simple Job Aids which is appropriate for community workers and households in the areas mentioned above as per the demand of the client.

Required qualification and experience:
BA in Education, Psychology or any related subject and expertise in developing training materials, Job Aids, Guidelines, Job Aids, Simple/ low literacy manual for community workers and household’s area.

Experiences in developing and/or reviewing training material that are focused on community based activities are highly appreciated. In addition, previous experience in developing and reviewing training curriculums and material in the aforementioned technical areas is required

Instruction for application: - Potential candidates may collect the detailed Terms of Reference from FHI 360- Ethiopia, Addis Ababa office within ten working days (Morning 8:30am-12:30am, Afternoon 1:30pm-5:30pm) from the first day of the announcement on “The Daily Monitor” newspaper. Qualified applicants should submit their application letter and CV to FHI 360-Ethiopia, E-mail: info@fhi.org.et or P.O. Box 121789, Addis Ababa. Please mention in which areas of consultancy service you want to participate on the envelope. Deadline for applications is Friday 6th July 2012.
Only individuals who meet the above criteria are encouraged to apply.

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