Consultant at Women for Women International Nigeria

Consultant at Women for Women International Nigeria. Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

Women for Women International is an international non-governmental organization whose mandate includes providing women survivors of wars, civil strife and other conflicts resources for survival, reduce poverty level and ensure their self-sufficiency. The organization, with headquarters in Washington DC, USA, has country offices in eight countries, including Nigeria. We implement a 12-months training and education program designed to improve key social and economic outcomes for the most socially excluded women. The program targets every aspect of women’s lives; health and wellbeing (including nutrition, hygiene & HIV/AIDS prevention and protection), economic stability, family decision making and social safety nets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Consultant – Developing a Training Manual for Mobilizing Community – Led Solutions for Addressing Gender-based Violence in Northern Nigeria

Location: Plateau
Project Title: Developing a Training Manual for Mobilizing Community – Led Solutions for Addressing Gender-based Violence in Northern Nigeria
Employment Type: Contract
Budget: $8,880
Project Start Date: July 29, 2022
Duration of Contract: September 25, 2022
Type: Short-term Consultancy (Individual or Firm)

Overview

• Terms of Reference for contracting a consultant to design and develop a training manual and approaches for community actions addressing harmful gender norms, roles, and attitudes in Plateau State.
• This term of reference is to identify and engage a consultant or consultancy firm who will be using participatory methods to design manuals, and other materials for training community stakeholders to enable structured systemic change and strengthen collective community accountability whilst mobilizing key community stakeholders to address drivers of violence-specifically, the harmful gender attitudes, roles, and social norms in the target communities. The Manual content will be guided by the research findings from the foundational analysis of Gender-Based Violence in Plateau State.
• Women for Women International in Nigeria (WfWI-Nigeria) is seeking an experienced and qualified consultant or consultancy firm for a short-term project to develop a training manual. This manual will be used by WfW-Nigeria to train community stakeholders- (from police, traditional and Religious Leaders, Change Agents, men allies, CSOs, etc) and mobilize these stakeholders to collectively address violence against women in three target local government areas (Jos East, Pankshin and Riyom). Through the strengthening of collective community stakeholder accountability in addressing violence in the target communities, we anticipate this will lead to changes in social norms that could lead to reductions in GBV. This would complement our existing work at the individual and household levels. WfWI is eager to pilot this work in Nigeria, where we have built a solid infrastructure in three targeted local governments through the informal mobilization of key stakeholders already.

Time Frame

Budget and Timeline:

• The total budget for this assignment is USD 8880. This should cover all costs associated with the assignment, which will primarily be the time of the consultant(s). A budget must be included in the application, demonstrating the distribution of spending across all deliverables /activities. Please detail all costs.
• This project needs to be completed on a fast timeline, with a start date of July 29, 2022, and an end date of September 25, 2022. Please provide your proposed timing of the key steps and objectives to achieve the project in this timeline.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Demonstrated expertise and knowledge of social norms, GBV, and other relevant gender-specific topics
• Experience in community models of change.
• Experience in designing training content and curriculum, which can be used at the level of community
• Strong analytical and writing skills
• Ability to draw content from existing best practices and research findings
• Content of the training manual should have: 1) Curriculum 2) Facilitator’s guide 3) pre-post training assessment and action plan
• Experience learning about GBV in studies of conflict and post-conflict contexts
• Knowledge of GBV policies and advocacy at a range of levels, including grassroots programming and national influencing.
• Knowledge of participatory, gender-sensitive, and inclusive adult learning approaches and methodologies for better facilitation
• Ability to work with tight deadlines to meet the timeline in the ToR
• Ability to understand the power dynamics of community mobilization-led approach for a sustainable action-led engagement.
• Ability to work across contexts, and adapt to local needs.
• Excellent presenting skills.
• Experience working on women’s rights and gender equality in Nigeria is preferable.
• Strong preference for national candidates/teams, or regionally based (must be able to meet budget & timeline).

Application Closing Date
20th July, 2022.

Interview Date
22nd July, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a Proposal that is a maximum of 10-pages single-spaced to include:

• Your qualifications for the project,
• Relevant working experiences, especially conducting work in Plateau State, Nigeria, or similar locations
• Proposed approach, methodologies, and measurement techniques to use
• Timeline and Workplan discussing your approach to producing the main deliverables described above including the Gantt chart
• Anticipated challenges and solutions
• Budget, in USD and Naira, including all estimated costs and time allocations for personnel. (Detail all costs; no %-based indirect costs line), travels, accommodation, materials, and entertainment during validation/TOT, etc
• 1 or 2 examples of similar work completed, including methodology and final report/presentation products.
• 2 references that can be contacted to vouch for your technical expertise and financial management.
• CV/Resume for project lead and any other relevant team members.

The Proposal should be submitted by email to: [email protected] with the subject line “Developing a Training Manual for Mobilizing Community-Led Solutions for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Northern Nigeria”. Also, candidates should send any questions to the email address above and include the same subject line.

Note

• All proposal materials must be submitted on or before the closing date.
• Interviews will be conducted for top candidates by July 22, 2022, with final selection and signing of the agreement by July 27, 2022. The work on this project will commence on July 29, 2022.