Consultancy and Training TOR – To hire a consultant and deliver soft skill Training to TVETs and SMEs participants

Term of reference (tor) to recruit a consultant

Title of the assignment:

To hire a consultant and deliver soft skill Training to TVETs and SMEs participants.

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Program/Project Title: Economic Growth Through Fruit Transformation

Duty Station: In Hawassa, Arba Minch, and Addis Ababa

Duration of the assignment: Jan 3rd week /2025 – 30th April /2025

Expected Starting Date: 3rd /4th week of Jan 2025.

 

Introduction

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses, and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious foods for all people, especially the most vulnerable.

Background

GAIN contributes to fighting malnutrition in Ethiopia through innovative and sustainable models that increase access to safe, affordable, and nutritious foods among communities vulnerable to malnutrition. In this regard, Gain is currently implementing a project called Economic Growth through Fruit Transformation, which is working on the agro processing in collaboration with various private and government sectors. Capacity building of TVETs and SMEs, which are involved in vocational education and agro processing, is the main intervention to build strong collaboration between the two sectors. The TVET and SME linkage was already created by GAIN, MOLS, and MOI for the TVETs and SMEs, including in Addis Ababa, Oromiya, Sidama and south Ethiopia regions to enhance the collaboration among the two sectors.

In line with that, GAIN and MOLS collaboratively delivered training of trainers (TOT) for the targeted TVET and SMEs staff after a gap assessment was completed and intervention areas were prioritized in collaboration with a consultant. Furthermore, GAIN will continue to deliver the capacity building activities in strengthening and maintaining the TVET and Industries linkage for productive collaboration. As the feedback collected from the TOT participants and the gap identified from the assessment, delivering soft skill training is essential to strengthen the technical capacity of the TVET and SMEs staff on agro processing. Therefore, GAIN has planned to recruit a consultant who has the potential qualification to develop and deliver soft skill training for TVET and SME staff in three different locations, namely Addis Ababa, Hawassa, and Arbaminch. The soft skill training mainly focuses on fundamental skills, facilitation skills, Entrepreneurial mindset, career development pathways, adaptability and networking, digital skill, etc

Objective

General objective

• To develop and deliver soft skill TOT for preselected TVET and SMEs staff including the management team.

Specific objective

• To develop soft skill training material/manual including pre- and post- assessment tools, generic feedback assessment tool, and worksheet for TVET and SME staff participants.
• To Deliver the training for TVET and SMEs staff including the management team in three locations with three sessions.
• To evaluate the knowledge changes of the trainees as a result of the training using the pre- and post-training tests.

Scope of the assignment

• Customized a detailed soft skill training manual, including trainee’s worksheet, pre-test and post-training assessment tools, and feedback collection tool.
• Deliver the soft skill training as TOT in three different locations in three sessions and separately for management team and staff of the TVET and SMEs.
• The leader (management team) training is 5 days with one session; and the staff training should be in two sessions, and not more than 4 days for each session.
• Conduct pre- and post-assessment including general expectations and feedback from the participants regarding the training.
• Provide final training report

 

For full information, please refer this linked document: ToR to recruitment of consultant to deliver soft skill Training to TVETs and SMEs_Final.docx.pdf – Google Drive