CFCV2O18/68 Consultant (AVRR/Development of Business Skills Training Manual) at International Organization for Migration - IOM

Organizational Unit: Assisted Voluntary Return & Reintegration (AVRR)
lOM Classification: Consultant
Type of Appointment: Consultant, 25 effective working days

Context

• Working under the overall supervision of the Programme Manager (MM), Lagos and the direct supervision of the Senior Programme Assistant (MM/AVRR), the successful candidate will be expected to develop a comprehensive Trainers and Trainee Manuals focusing on entrepreneurship and business management for returnees.

Core Functions / Responsibilities
The Consultant will be responsible for the following:

• To Develop a standard and comprehensive Trainer's Manual to guide and assist trainers in conducting training to help returnees prepare for reintegration, including Psychosocial First Aid, entrepreneurship/ starting and running a business, value and supply chain and partnerships and cooperative concepts.
• Trainees Guide, which is based on the trainers manual, intended to help returnees in their reintegration activities.

Methodology and Scope of Work
Literature Review:

• The consultant will review all relevant available training manuals developed by IOM and other actors including the Nigerian government on business/entrepreneurial management for SMEs with the aim of tilling gaps in existing materials; researches, assessment reports, market information etc.

Approach:

• Building on existing training contents and incorporating adult learning techniques, design and develop comprehensive Trainer's Manual and Trainee' guide.
• The Trainer's Manual is targeted towards guiding and assisting trainers to conduct training on small and medium sized businesses.
• Both the Manual and the guide should be translated into Hausa Language.
• The manual should be divided into modules structured for a 4 day training period and topics to be covered will be finalized on the basis of discussions with IOM.

Tangible and Measurable Output of the work assignment:

• An inception report detailing the consultancy work-plan including the methodology (max 4 pages). The report will outline in detail a fine-tuned methodology and scope based on the consultant’s interpretation of the tasks and deliverables suggested in the TOR
• Present soft copy, present 2 printed copies of the Trainer’s Manual and Trainee's Guides (in English and Hausa)
• The contracted individual will conduct field test and provide a comprehensive Training of Trainers (TOT) on newly developed training manuals and soft skills modules to a master trainers group. There will be one venue for TOT where a group of selected trainers will come and join. The venue and the list of trainers shall be determined and confirmed by lOM.
• Submit a brief final report highlighting all the results and outcomes of the assignment including trainers’ evaluation and need assessment status recommendations on the activities or other steps that be taken for the further development of business training and practices.