SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia is a non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational charitable child welfare organization. For the past 43 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.
As the organization works to build families for children, it also address the issue of family breakdown and separation resulting from economic problems and lack of parenting skills. In line with this, the organization employs family and community development strategy to create capacity at family and community levels and thereby prevent child abandonment and neglect in the country. In cooperation with local authorities and other service providers, we work directly with families and communities to ensure children grow in a safe and protected family and community. The organization is currently operational in seven Children’s Villages program locations namely; Addis Ababa, Hawasa, Bahir Dar, Gode, Jimma, Mekelle and Harar.
SOS CVE strongly believes that parenting plays significant role in shaping children’s holistic development. Good parenting skills and practices have positive impact on children’s education performance, socio- emotional, cognitive and other dimensions of development. To this end, the organization has been working to build parenting capacity of caregivers.
In order to build up on the existing experiences, SOS CVE would like to deliver a more well-thought-out parenting skills training to caregivers based on interactive training and coaching manual. The parental skills development manual will support families to develop child caring capacity. Each family is supported to become self-reliant in the care of their children as part of the overarching family development planning process. The manual will be based on SOS Children’s Villages FSP Program approaches of family capacity building and will serve as a guide to community facilitators and co-workers. For this reason, SOS CVE would like to hire experienced and competent consultant/consulting firm to develop parenting skill training manual and facilitate TOT.
Job Requirements
Required Skills, qualifications and Experiences of consultant/consulting firm
- Proven competence and experience in developing life skills and delivery of trainings.
- Social science background, e.g. higher education (MA, PhD) in development, education, psychology, social-pedagogy, or related field with at least 5 years of practical experience.
- Demonstrable experience of working with GOs, NGOs or private sectors in relevant areas.
- Demonstrable experience in developing related manuals
- Sound experience and skills in developing and conducting trainings in the area of life skills.
- A good understanding of community development work and the social welfare system in the country
Documents
- Renewed license for the current Ethiopian fiscal year.
- Submit resume of the firm, copies of credentials, renewed license and TIN number.
- Detailed CV of the consultant/firm with full description of the profile and experience.
- At least three certificates or recognitions of previously conducted similar surveys.
Application Requirements
Consulting firm fulfilling the above requirements should submit the following bid documents:
- Expression of interest: – a cover letter with a maximum of one page which introduces the consulting firm/company/consultant, the relevance of his/her or the firm’s previous experiences in related work, with an expression of interest to carry out the work as described in this TOR.
- Technical proposal: – This should include, but not limited to, understanding of the TOR, detailed proposal on the methods to be used for the development of the manual, work plan, and details of the team composition with relevant experiences.
- Financial Proposal: – Total financial requirement to carry out the consultancy work including the detail break down of costs for each activity to be accomplished.
How to Apply
All qualified & Interested consultants can collect the TOR from SOS CV Program at Addis Ababa National Office located at the road from Bole Medhanialem to Atlas on the compound Near Tomoca coffee from Monday to Friday from 8:00AM- 5:00PM
Both financial and technical proposals should be submitted to the address given below on or before 29th January 2019 and on office hours.
Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply
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