Job Description
ChildFund
Sri Lanka
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Consultancy assignments for the capacity building of disabled people's organizations (DPO) in Vavuniya and Mullaitivu (capacity building of governing boards, staff and streamlining systems and processes)
ChildFund International Sri Lanka
ChildFund International is a non-sectarian and non-profit development organization working in 24 countries to help children living in poverty to have the capacity to improve their lives and the opportunity to bring lasting changes to their communities.
ChildFund Sri Lanka has been active in Sri Lanka since 1985 and our interventions are aimed at ensuring equal opportunities for infant, young children, and youth to reach their full potentials through improved health, nutrition, education and skills. We endeavor towards building a safe, protective and enabling environment for children at home, within the community and in society.
ChildFund Sri Lanka is currently providing direct and indirect support to over 250,000 children, their families, and communities in selected divisional secretariate divisions in 11 districts including Mullaitivu and Vavuniya.
Organizational Capacity building initiatives in Mullaitivu and Vavuniya
ChildFund Sri Lanka has been providing technical assistance to ORHAN (Organization for the rehabilitation of handicapped) in Vavuniya and 06 DPOS (Disabled People's Organizations) in Mullaitivu district to enhance their capacity to effectively implement community based inclusive development interventions. During next 06 months period ChildFund Sri Lanka is planning to help these organizations to build their capacities through introducing/updating/strengthening their systems, policies, procedures, guidelines and providing training opportunities for governing board members, staff members, volunteers etc on various aspects of governance and management.
Consultancy assignments
In order to implement above capacity building initiatives ChildFund is looking for well qualified and experienced consultants or consultancy firms who can deliver the expected results in time and up to the level of high standards.
We look for professional consultants to take up below assignments.
- Design and facilitate a 3-day training workshop on community based inclusive development and develop/strengthen the advocacy plan for 6 DPOS and ORHAN (Tamil medium in Vavuniya)
- Train ORHAN team in Vavuniya on local fund raising (LFR) approaches, processes, methods and tools and develop a LFR strategy and action plan (Tamil medium).
- Review the existing performance management system at ORHAN and identify areas for improvements to make the system more effective.
Preferred profile of consultants
The consultant/consultancy firm must have qualifications and experience mentioned below.
- Consultant/firm must be able to assign person/persons who have done similar assignments for NGOs or private sector organizations previously.
- Consultants must be fluent in the local language based on the geographic area of the assignment.
- The facilitators/trainers of workshops must be professional trainers with hands-on experience in facilitating similar kinds of training workshops, group discussions etc.
- The consultants with good knowledge on CBID, CRPD, RBA etc together with professional training skills will be much preferred especially for those who are going to facilitate workshops.
Application process
Interested applicants must submit separate proposals for the above assignments that includes methodology for delivering the expected outputs, time frame, detailed budget, qualification and experience of the consultants involved, support expected from the DPOs and ChildFund. One applicant/organization can apply for more than one assignment. We expect the selected consultant to complete these assignments within the number of days mentioned in the specific TOR. The budget should clearly indicate an all-inclusive total consultancy fee in SLR. This must include the consultants' fee, travel accommodation cost for consultants, stationaries, training materials etc. ChildFund will arrange the meals, accommodation and other necessary facilities for the DPO participants for training/information gathering sessions etc and coordinate for the requests for information, pre-assessments etc.
For detailed TORs for assignment/assignments or any further information can be collected by sending an email at [email protected]
Detailed proposals must be submitted to [email protected] on or before 22nd May 2024.
