TOR Curriculum Review and Development for 21ST-Century Skills and Entrepreneurship Programming – Hargeisa, Somaliland
OXFAM
Job Type
Full Time
Location
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Description :
TOR curriculum review and development for 21ST-century skills and entrepreneurship programming:
Background:
The Work in Progress project is developed within an Alliance of Oxfam
Novib, Venture Company for Africa (VC4A), Butterfly Works and Hanze University. Oxfam Novib is the lead applicant. The project is Implemented in Three countries Nigeria, Egypt and Somalia/Somaliland. The project is focusing on three Complementary pathways:
We build young people’s skills for today and the future to find paid jobs or set up their own enterprises.
We accelerate startups and offer business development services (BDS) to impact-driven small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) so they can employ more young people
WiP! aims to improve the enabling environment for youth and enterprises to improve the implementation of policies on decent jobs and supporting startups and SMEs.
Current situation and Objectives of the Assignment:
Oxfam Somalia/land is partnering with the University of Hargeisa to set up and develop career centre that is aimed to train graduating youth to gain hands-on employability,21st century/future of work skills as well as entrepreneurship courses. The centre is meant to equip youth with practical learning skills and enable them to transit effectively to the world of work right after graduation.
There are available curriculums to be used for the career centre. However, existing curriculums are not aligned to the current structure of the career centre as they are not collectively suitable for our change goal: ‘’youth with 21stcentury skills, guided by practical learning methods, accessing integrated career and entrepreneurship development package that is well-aligned to the future of work’’.
It is with this background that Oxfam is commissioning a holistic curriculum review and development based on below key performance indicators:
Review existing literature about employability skills, 21st-century skills and future of work skill demand to holistically understand curriculum requirements and the extent to which these can be aligned with the desired curriculum.
Undertake holistic consultation with the University of Hargeisa Management staff, youth, key youth development institutions(both private and civil society), private sector, other universities/educational institutions as well as government line agencies to devise co-created content for the curriculum.
Draft comprehensive the curriculum content, training methods, tools and guideline for the instructors and ensure the draft curriculum is tested/validated with youth, university staff, private sector representatives and other necessary stakeholders. This should then generate a well-refined version.
Share the final version with Oxfam for review and endorsement following recommendations from the above consultations and whether feedbacks are solicited.
Assess the capacity of instructors and career development teams and subsequently devise a tailor-made training for the university team(TOT). Training(5 days) should be based on how to roll out the curriculum and mainstream it in the university system.
Key Deliverables:
- Inception report comprising of the holistic analysis of the current situation and future direction(Workplan of the assignment)
- A comprehensive outline of at least 50 pages of the curriculum. This should contain course outline content, instructions, lesson structuring and planning(timetable of the training courses etc) as well as feedback component/evaluation after each training course.
- Training content and notes for the instructors/facilitators. This should include visual presentations, participatory tools for learners, interactive content and arts where feasible but not a mandatory. The aim is to ensure as much visual presentation as possible.
- Draft Training curriculum after validation by the target stakeholders
- Testing phase exercise to check on the effectiveness of the curriculum. This can be combined with the validation stage.
- Training for the trainers(5 days) for about 5-10 university instructors for the aim of embedding the curriculum within the university system and 2 career centre staff (master trainers for training annual cohorts)
- Facilitator guide and young learners guide should be both submitted as part of the curriculum tools.
Qualifications:
The consultant/consulting firm will possess the following key requirements:
- At least a Masters degree or equivalent in social research methods, economic development, educational and literacy or any other related field.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in research, curriculum development in the field of skills development, employment/economic empowerment preferably in Somalia/Somaliland.
- Proven experience in programming 21st-century skills, future of work, employability and entrepreneurship.
- Proven experience in training of trainers and skills transfer methods.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills with sound skills in co-creation and human-centred methods.
- Strong coordination and networking skills.
- Profound capacity in the use of technology for data synthesis, analysis and reporting.
Reporting:
The consultant/Lead for the consulting firm will report directly to the Youth Programme Coordinator-Oxfam on a continuous/regular basis and will interact with other team members including Senior Programme Officer-Oxfam.
Duration and Terms of the Consultancy:
This consultancy will be for 45 days( 40 days for research, drafting and curriculum development and 5 days for the training of trainers). It is the responsibility of the consultant/consulting firm to devise a tentative work plan and share with Oxfam for approval as part of the inception phase. There will be no external travels involved in this assignment as all activities will be rolled out in Hargeisa.
Consultant/consulting firm must sign non-Oxfam code of conduct available for review and signature.
How to apply :
Applications should be submitted to:SOM-Consultancies@oxfam.org not later than 20 june 2020 with clearly written on the subject line “ TOR curriculum review and development” . application should contain in;
Technical proposal ( with consultant Firm/lead CV and profile showing relevant works carried out) Financial proposal ( with clear break down)
Work plan to be completed.
Previous works done, recommendation letters etc.
Three references with professional emails ( mentioning emails, name, position and telephones)