Job Description

INVITATION TO BID FOR INDIVIDUAL LOCAL CONSULTANCY

Save the Children International (SCI) Somaliland program hereby invites interested individual local consultants to bid for the consultancy assignment detailed below

1. Title of Consultancy

Terms of Reference for consultancy for Harmonization and Integration of Climate Change into the Somaliland Education Sector Policy and Teacher Education Policy. The consultancy consists of two parts.

Part A: Local Individual Consultancy Assignment: Review and Compare Policies of the Somaliland Ministry of Environment, Climate Change (MoECC) and the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) with the Aim to Harmonize and Align Policy Approaches.

Part B: Local Individual Consultancy Assignment: Consultant to Support the Integration of Climate Change into the Updating of the Somaliland Education Sector Policy and Teacher Education Policy.

2. SCI Contracting Office: Save the Children in Somaliland

3. Period of Consultancy: Total duration will be 60 working days

4. Consultant type required: Experienced and relevant Local Individual Consultants (Consultancy Company is not applicable). Two individual local consultants are required in this assignment.  

5. Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs

Save the children will pay the fee for the local individual consultants in a lump sum and will not reimburse any other costs incurred during the assignment. The consultants will cover their own Logistical arrangements costs; including food, accommodation, local transport, insurance and all cost associated with data collection work.

6. Taxation Provisions

The consultants shall be responsible for all applicable taxes related to the consultancy services, in accordance with local tax regulations at the SCI contracting office will apply and shall be withheld by SCI.

7. Travel requirements

Save the Children will cover travel cost outside Hargeisa for the purpose of this consultancy.

8. Security requirements

The consultants will comply with the standard of Save the Children Security procedures.  

9. Consultant’s Experience Requirement:

This consultancy assignment will focus exclusively on reviewing and comparing existing policies of the Somaliland Ministry of Environment, Climate Change (MoECC) and the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) with the Aim to Harmonize and Align Policy Approaches. After that, the climate change in education will be integrated into the existing National Education Policy and the Teacher Education Policy for Somaliland. Applications are invited from qualified individual local consultants with proven expertise in developing and/or reviewing national policies (i.e. education and climate change) education and have contextual understanding of Somaliland’s institutional landscape.

10. KEY PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENT

Experiences and Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications and professional experience

·       Advanced degree (Master or PHD) in Education, Climate Change, Public Policy, or related field.

·       Minimum 5 - 7 years of experience in education policy reform and/or climate mainstreaming.

·       Proven track record in inter-sectoral coordination and policy analysis.

·       Strong facilitation, analytical, and writing skills.

·       Experience in the Somali context and language proficiency is desirable.

·       Prior experience in developing or reviewing sector policies like Education and Climate Change. Prove of documents (contract) which is similar to this assignment.

·       Familiarity with Somaliland or Horn of Africa education context.

·       Strong facilitation and workshop design skills.

·       Excellent English writing and communication skills (Somali language fluency added advantage).

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The proposals submitted by consultants will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Skills Required

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