Consultancy for the Delivery of CALP’s 12-week Online Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff Course

Background

CALP is a dynamic global network of over 90 organisations engaged in the critical areas of policy, practice and research in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and financial assistance more broadly. Collectively, CALP members deliver the vast majority of humanitarian CVA worldwide.

What makes CALP unique is its diversity. CALP members currently include local and international non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, donors, specialist social innovation, technology and financial services companies, researchers and academics, and individual practitioners.

Together we seek to better meet the needs and improve the outcomes for people affected by crisis. To do this we ensure that CVA is a central, scalable component of quality, timely and appropriate humanitarian assistance and that the need to sustain positive outcomes for people over the longer term is considered.

We envision a future where people are enabled to overcome crises with dignity, by exercising choice and their right to self-determination. This helps to sustain their well-being over time.

To do this we catalyse the power, knowledge and capacities of our diverse global network, alongside other local, national, regional and global actors, all of whom are seeking to secure better outcomes for people living in crisis contexts. Our role as a collective is to generate alignment in the approaches and actions of those within and across our network, in order to help optimise the quality and scale of humanitarian CVA.

Context for the work

CALP has developed an ambitious project to support the delivery if its flagship training course, Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff, via an online platform. The 5-day face to face training course has been adapted and restructured for self-directed and online delivery via a range of media over 12 weeks. By developing the CALP Online: Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff course, CALP hopes to reach more humanitarian staff in hard-to-access locations where face to face trainings are harder to arrange, as well as adapting our training models to fit a post-COVID 19 world in which face to face trainings may be less desirable or more complicated to manage safely.

CALP is looking for a team of certified trainers with experience of delivering the face to face course, and who have attended a TOT for the online course, to deliver CALP Online: Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff on CALP’s behalf to humanitarian practitioners.

Specific task(s) of the consultancy

This consultancy will lead the facilitation of the online course over the 12 weeks.

We are looking for a training team with 2 facilitators to run this course, with one taking a lead role and the other in supporting/co-facilitation role. The division of days within the consultancy is up to the training team to decide, and should be included in the written proposal.

Key activities of the consultancy include (with estimated number of days in parentheses):

1. Lead the facilitation of this online course (18 days spread over 12 weeks), including:

2. • Updating the learner pack as appropriate (with cohort-specific information such as online workshop dates) and forward it to participants
   • Lead all participant communications during the course, including setting up a social learning platform (eg Skype group, teams channel or similar)
   • Set up and prepare all Zoom meetings and breakout rooms/polls in advance
   • Set up and prepare all Miro boards or similar whiteboards for group work activities
   • Review all submitted group work and provide feedback as needed
   • Deliver 6 x online workshops and update attendance tracker regularly
   • Produce a training report, including analysis of participants feedback

During the delivery of this course, it is expected that the facilitators will communicate regularly with CALP’s learning team, and the CALP team will provide Kaya admin support, as well as weekly Kaya completion reports to enable the facilitators to track participant’s achievements over the 12 weeks.

Key Deliverables/Outputs

During the consultancy, the following outputs will be expected:

1. 1 x Online course fully delivered, in English, over 12 weeks
2. 1 x training report on completion of the training course

Time Schedule & Project Duration

The training is scheduled to begin on 7^th March 2022

All activities of this consultancy are expected to be completed by 7^th June 2022

Essential profile of the consultant

For this piece of work, CALP is looking for the following expertise:

• Must be CALP-Certified to deliver the online course (the co-facilitator must have attended a CALP-run TOT on the online course)
• Strong English language skills.
• Knowledge of the East Africa region is desirable.
• The consultants will need to have their own Miro and Zoom licenses, or licenses to equivalent software such as Teams or Jamboard etc to run this course.

How to apply:

Application Procedures

Expressions of Interest (EoI) should include a financial proposal with a rate per day or total per course, CVs of consultant(s) and 2 reference names/contact, which should be sent to consult@calpnetwork.org COB 9^th February 2022 with the subject line: CaLP ESAF Online Courses. Any additional clarifications on the consultancy should be addressed directly to Greg.Rodwell@calpnetwork.org

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