TOR for Consultancy Service

Terms of Reference to consultancy service for SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia

1. BACKGROUND

SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia is a non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational charitable child welfare organization. For the past 47 years, we have been working to build families for children in need, help them shape their own future and share in the development of their communities. Everything we do is based on the best interest of the child. We help vulnerable families care for their children, and we work to prevent the breakdown of parental care. When children lose their own parental care, we provide quality alternative care. We support young people in their efforts to become independent adults and succeed in life.
The normal face-to-face learning environment in Ethiopian schools has been greatly hampered for the last three years because of multifaceted crises (COVID-19, internal conflict, etc). Majority of the schools were not ready to mitigate the risk of leaving students out of schooling because of the crises. However, few schools were found to use different learning platforms in a very traditional approach. The emergency program of SOS CVE conducted need assessment of schools. The need assessment was initiated by a lesson learned during this crisis and identified the following:

• ICT infrastructure development such as need for desktop computers
• Capacity development training for staff on digital literacy

Thus, this ToR is informed by the need identified during the assessment and the correspondingrecommendation.

The total number of training participants range from 23-25 drawn from 5 SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools.  These are teachers (10), ICT officers (5), school principals (5) and others (3-5).

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The main objective of the training (consultancy work) is to enhance the digital literacy skill of training participants to enable them to apply it in the school learning environment.

The specific objectives are:

• To enable training participants to create and use alternative learning platforms in the schools using existing digital resources/ tools of HGSs
• To improve effectiveness of communication and collaboration skills in online environments such as digital communication tools
• To enable participants develop behaviors for safe, appropriate, ethical and responsible use of internet

3. SCOPE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The scope of the assignment is limited to carrying out the following tasks:

• Conduct initial assessment of digital environment of, and training participants profile
• Design and develop need based training package (ppt, handouts, activity sheets, etc)
• Deliver the training session
• Prepare final assessment and training completion report

4. METHODOLOGY OF TRAINING DELIVERY

The consultant is expected to use a participatory approach to fully engage training participants. However, it is the responsibility of the consultant to propose suitable training methods based on the given information in this terms of reference.
Below are proposed contents. However, the consultant can refine the contents and is expected to explain his understanding of the assignment.

5. DELIVERABLES

The selected consulting firm/ individual consultant is expected to deliver the following deliverables during and at the end of the consulting service:

• Initial assessment report on SOS HGS’s digital environment and training participants profile
• Trainer’s resource pack (training manuals or guide, presentation slide, handouts and worksheets, training videos or demonstrations, assessment and evaluations tools, reference materials including websites and multimedia materials
• Final training participants evaluation and training completion report

6. TIME FRAME, DURATION AND VENUE

The training is tentatively scheduled to be conducted from September 18-22, 2023. The venue for the training is at head office (staff development center. The consultant is expected to facilitate the training for 5 consecutive days. The total work period (16 days) can be broken down into preparation period (10 days), training delivery period (5 days) and report writing period (1 day).

7. REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONSULTANT (SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES)

The consultant carrying out this assignment should generally have a thorough understanding of the education sector in Ethiopia and the application of digital technology in the school context.

This understanding of the training environment should be substantiated by:

• Certification of experience and exposure of the firm and/ or trainers on practical application and similar training provisions
• A higher education (MSC or above, or equivalent) in ICT, digital literacy, computer programming, software development, etc

8. HOW TO APPLY

Interested and qualified applicants can review the detailed TOR following the link here and submit their cover letter, technical proposal and financial proposal separately sealed in an envelope clearly marked to be submitted in person until August 31, 2023, 4:00 pm at the below adress.

SOS CVE National Office
Bole Sub city, Kebele 03/05
H.No 2/229, infront of Mado Hotel
Phone: +251-116612194/ +251-116611501
P.o.box:3495
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia