TechnoServe is recruiting a Curriculum Specialist Consultant to Consolidate the Women IN Business (WIN)’s Training Curricula, to be based in Maputo, Mozambique.
Description
- Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty. Food security and nutrition are essential to the prosperity and future of people and communities. One way TechnoServe does this is by bringing business and technical knowledge to capacitate food processors and key service providers to address their needs, helping them become competitive drivers in the food system, increasing profits, employment, inclusivity, trade, food safety, and access to nutritious foods. TechnoServe has been working for over 20 years in Mozambique, enabling business solutions to poverty across the country
- Women IN Business (WIN) is a program launched by TechnoServe and financed by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in 2018. WIN seeks to help women in Mozambique to become more economically empowered by developing high-potential growth sectors where women can benefit. WIN works with carefully-selected partners who can positively influence the lives of women and women entrepreneurs through their roles in the private sector
- The program is applying a market systems development (MSD) approach, addressing system-level constraints for gender-transformative impact on the lives of women. WIN provides time-bound, technical support to partner organizations to develop new ways of working that improve the partner business and the lives of low-income women. Partners also contribute their own resources into shared initiatives, sending a clear signal of their intent to sustain improved ways of working well into the future
Objective and Scope
- WIN works in five verticals:
- Access to Management tools and information
- Access to finance services
- Access to quality convenient products
- Rules and social norms through media
- Access to equipment
- Within each vertical, WIN has developed training materials for its partners so they can better serve their customers, who are low income women and men
- WIN is looking for a specialist in Entrepreneurship and Gender Curriculum Design, who can support to systematize and organize the curricula developed for the various interventions (partnerships) of the program that promote business skills, financial education and gender awareness into five defined modules: Financial Education (including a complementary module: Mobile Money), Business Skills, Agency Banking for Bank Staff and for Agents, and Gender
Duties
- The Contractor is expected to undertake the following activities:
- Based on the afore-mentioned themes, consolidate most relevant training materials into each of these themes
- This requires cutting and pasting most relevant sections from different sources to form one cohesive module for each theme
- This does not require to create new content
- Remove all partner details so the training materials can be used by any institution
- Ensure training materials include sections highlighting adaptation for low literacy customers/users and nano-entrepreneurs
- Ensure that all materials are gender inclusive
- An exact outline/structure of the activities foreseen under the consultancy will be defined together with the Contractor at the beginning of the consultancy
Requisites
- Professional competences:
- Attention to detail, critical sense and rigor in meeting deadlines
- Formal command of Portuguese and English > Weighting 20%
- Cost:
- Competitive financial proposal ->Weighting 30%
- Total Weighting 100%
Selection criteria
- Contractors will be evaluated on the following criteria, assessed through the Contractor’s proposal and subsequent interview with the WIN team:
- Criteria
- Experience in curriculum development:
- Knowledge and understanding of participatory methodologies used in curricula for training adults
- Knowledge of entrepreneurship and gender topics, and experience in training in these topics, is an advantage.
- Relevant experience in preparing training manuals, preferably for adults with low levels of schooling -> Weighting 50%
Deliverables and Timeline
- In terms of timeline and general coordination, it is expected that the Contractor:
- Will start work at the beginning of May, and will work for a total of 20 working days until June 9th 2023
- Have weekly check-ins with the Program Director and the Business Advisor to inform on progress of activities
- Submit a draft module of the Financial Education piece by Day 10 for review to ensure the Contractor is aligned with the team's expectations on the structure and content of the module
- Submit the agreed upon deliverables according to timeline, which will be defined in the contract
- In terms of deliverables:
- It is expected that the Contractor consolidates all of WIN’s training curricula from the different interventions in each vertical into packages of training materials for each of the five modules
- The modules are:
- Financial Education (including a complementary module: Mobile Money), Business Skills, Agency Banking for Bank Staff and for Agents, and Gender
- Relevant background information on existing modules:
- Currently there are a total of 36 chapters from curricula across six of WIN’s interventions
- These translate to the following modules:
- Agency banking
- Field teams: 8 chapters (186 pages)
- Customers: 6 chapters (162 pages)
- Business skills
- Micro entrepreneurs
- 3 chapters for customers (88 pages)
- Nano entrepreneurs
- 14 chapters for customers (86 pages)
- Financial Education
- Mobile money
- 5 chapters for customers (41 pages)
- Insurance, savings, loan and financial management (100 pages)
- Gender (an average of 28 pages)
- The structure of the modules, including existing chapters and sources of training materials, will be shared with the selected Contractor
Notes
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted
- Payment terms: The Contractor will be paid in fixed fees, according to the defined milestones.
TechnoServe will withhold taxes as required by law, if applicable
- Women led and Mozambican companies are encouraged to apply
How to Apply
1. Documentation
- Curriculum Vitae
- Technical and Financial Proposal
2. Application
- Send your Documentation to buy+MZ+P0019912@tns.org with the Subject line “Curriculum Specialist Consultant to Consolidate the Women IN Business (WIN)’s Training Curricula”