Consultant for Virtual Leadership and Organizational Development Training

, CO, United States

Consultant for Virtual Leadership and Organizational Development Training Date: 15 December 2022

CARE International in Myanmar

Term of Reference: Consultant for Virtual Leadership and Organizational Development Training

Location of Assignment : Virtual and Remote

Duration of Assignment : From 11 January 2023 to 12 January 2023

Responsible to : Project Director

Background

CARE International in Myanmar (hereafter referred to as ‘CARE’ ) and its partners A ction Contre La Faim (hereafter referred to as ‘ ACF ’), Centre for Social Integrity (hereafter referred to as ‘ CSI ’), and Phyu Sin Saydanar Action Group (hereafter referred to as PSSAG ) aim to empower women and caregivers to improve nutritional status of vulnerable communities in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State (NRS). This will be accomplished through building the capacity of community health volunteers and communities to improve nutrition through direct service delivery, greater ability to identify and address the underlying causes of malnutrition by focusing on social behavior change related to nutrition and caregiving practices, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices and cultural barriers to women’s agency and decision making. The project responds to Component 1 on Nutrition and Component 3 on Local Leadership under the current CfP titled “Rakhine Programme”, providing an integrated programmatic approach. CARE has been implementing Northern Rakhine Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (NR-CMAM) project working with 3 partners covering 26 villages Buthidaung Township with 3,834 households and 21,246 individuals and 34 villages Maungdaw Township with 3,651 households with 22,535 individuals. The project aims to improve the nutritional status, particularly of pregnant and lactating women, infants and children U5 from these targeted communities through home based and community interventions and engagement with the ACF nutrition centers in Maungdaw and Buthidaung Township. Action Contre La Faim has been implementing activities in northern Rakhine State since 1994. As of 2020, ACF was providing integrated management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) services in four Outpatient Therapeutic Program (Nutrition Centres) in the area, two in Buthidaung Township and two in Maungdaw Township covering 63 villages in total. ACF’s programme approach in northern Rakhine aims to address acute malnutrition through a gender sensitive and integrated Nutrition & Health, Mental Health, Care Practices and Gender & Protection (MHCP-GP). ACF has previously worked in northern Rakhine supporting nutrition sensitive agriculture, livelihoods capacity trainings in income generation, agricultural input assistance among other interventions. This project will complement existing efforts to build community resilience in food and nutrition security.

Centre for Social Integrity is an explicitly non-political, non-profit, non-partisan and non-religious nonprofit organization registered in Myanmar. Dedicated to fostering pluralism, diversity and inclusion, CSI works through three program pillars: Humanitarian and Development, Peace and Conflict, and Research and Policy Advocacy. In its activities, CSI focuses on long-term peace building, as well as immediate protection and aid for communities affected by conflict. Key activities include the provision of food and non-food items, social cohesion initiatives, and trainings for youth leaders. Since its inception in 2016, CSI has been implementing projects in Northern Rakhine State, and through this work and local recruitment established and maintains close relationships with local communities.

Phyu Sin Saydanar Action Group is a registered local NGO founded in September 2014. Headquartered in Yangon, PSSAG is a dynamic and dedicated organization with current operations in Rakhine and Ayeyarwady, and Sagaing (Nagaland) Regions/States with over 90 local staff. PSSAG is providing humanitarian assistances to the most vulnerable communities in Myanmar through health (mobile clinic, health education, referral, COVID 19 awareness raising and response, PWD assistant device distribution, training village health workers), education (school construction, latrine, school uniform distribution, school gears), WASH (latrine, tubewell, shower room), constructions (shelter, road, dyke renovation and construction, irrigation canals, pond renovation and construction, solar street light, single house, community halls), livelihood (cash distribution, Women SHG, small business, agriculture, livestock, fishery, vocation trainings), nutrition, asset creation (infrastructure) food and NFI distribution sectors. CARE takes the responsibility for overall field implementation, donor reporting and liaison. CARE’s key role in this project is to be the coordination mechanism and bring organisations together to work effectively and in harmony. CARE will also lead on technical areas such as gender sensitive SBCC approaches and WASH. ACF is an overall technical partner on nutrition for the project, and CSI and PSSAG are implementing partners for additional activities focused on social behaviour change related to nutrition and WASH. CSI will implement community based activities. Both CSI and PSSAG are included as partners in the proposal to build Myanmar civil society capacity on activities related to nutrition, WASH and gender equality as well as and field implementation, and to provide advice about the local context. This project is part of the partners’ long-standing engagement in conflict affected areas in Myanmar, especially NRS, where human rights abuses are more widespread than in other parts of the country. The lessons learned from ongoing and past projects will be used to leverage the momentum of the proposed project. The project addresses Component 3 (Local Leadership) through localization and capacity building of communities and CSOs through community health volunteers, especially women, who are local to the communities and better positioned to address power dynamics and gender-based inequalities with the support of national partners.

Objective

Based on the CARE capacity assessment, key needs to be identified with each partners .The consultant is expected to deliver the virtual leadership and organizational development training to CARE staff. The training is aimed for senior management and management staffs who are responsible leading agency and managing programmes including designing the programmes and developing organizational policies and mandates. This training is intended for local partner to strengthen their capacity to develop their organization and their networks in humanitarian setting.

Specific Objectives:

After the training, the participant will be:

Able to understand how they can improve their leadership and management skills to lead and manage an organization and staffs

Able to understand how they can lead and staffs their organizations to be sustainable and to avoid high staff turnover rate

Able to understand how they can develop the organizational policies to be compliance with humanitarian settings, principles in addition to the compliance of organizational mandates

Able to review their organizational policies and organizational structure to be able to strengthen and develop for sustainability of organizations

Able to provide multiplier trainings for other management staffs

Key Activities

The training will be delivered on 11st and 12 th January 2023 via Zoom. The training will involve pre-test and post-test. The estimated training participants will be 15-20. Reporting, desk review and developing curriculum will occupy 2 days. Total 4 days will be required for the whole training.

Output

After the training, analysis of pre and post test result can be seen. The focal from local partner’s organization can review their documents and can discuss with the consultant to strengthen their organization. The training report will be one of the outputs.

Submission of Proposal

Interested Consulting firms or individuals are expected to submit a proposal with the following components:

Proposed session plans

Proposed Budget

Proof of prior similar experience

CARE is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. Women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. CARE is committed to protecting the right of children. CARE reserves the right to conduct screening procedures to ensure a child safe environment.

Interested applicants are requested to submit above-mentioned documents to the address below not later than 27 th December 2022. Please clearly mention the announcement number ‘CARE/CO/CONS/1783’ and job title “Consultant for Virtual Leadership and Organizational Development Training” in the Subject line.

CARE International in Myanmar

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