Manuals Developed Consultant

Terms of Reference

POSITION TITLE: Manuals developed consultant

DEPARTMENT OR COUNTRY PROGRAM: Programs

RESPONSIBLE TO: NFE Project Manager

STATUS: Consultant

SUPERVISORY CAPACITY: N/A

DATE: June 8th, 2023

ORGNISATIONAL BACKGROUND

Questscope operates throughout the Middle East, with its main office being in Jordan. Questscope is a UK registered charity with the aims of advancing the education and quality of life of children, young people, and adults. Questscope has an office in the USA and works throughout the Middle East.

Questscope (Charitable, Non-governmental Organisation) exists to advance the education and quality of life of children, young persons and adults. Questscope Programs goals included:

In Jordan: community-based women-led economic development, mentoring for “At Risk” youth, education for dropouts and community-based organizational capacity-building for women’s leadership, including Jordanian nationals and refugee populations.

In Syria: integration of mentally challenged adults in Syrian communities, education for internally displaced persons (IDPs), juvenile justice, and rehabilitation.

Questscope focus on three core pillars:

1. Trauma Recovery.
2. Economic Inclusion.
3. Empowerment.

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

Based on the joint publication by UNICEF, UNESCO, MoE, and Institute of Statistics in 2021, the number of out of school children varies between 112,016 and 527,582, while the lower number shows 6.2% out of the total number of children and youth of school age. According to UNHCR data for the year 2019, out of the 233,000 total refugee children 83,920 were not enrolled in any education service.

On a different note, the National Committee for Human Resource Development strategy, that was published in 2016, demonstrates that the education system in Jordan fails to meet expectations on enrollment and learning outcomes.

The Drop Out Program (DOP) was initiated by QS in close partnership with MoE in 2003 to serve children/youth who dropped out from formal education for at least three years, and to respond to the learning needs of out of school youth and offer them certification through an accelerated learning process aiming to provide them with knowledge and skills in a safe and supportive environment. The program on the other hand has been a pathway for the refugee youth as they constitute part of the vulnerable groups.

DOP during the period of 18 years, (22,196) of youth has been enrolled, males 12-18 and females 12-20 through 3 cycles according to the following:

Cycle 1: 8 months and equivalent to grades 1-4 in formal education

Cycle 2: 8 months and equivalent to grades 5-7 in formal education

Cycle 3: 8 months and equivalent to grades 8-10 in formal education

This proposed continuation of the NFE Program responds to the urgent need to improve the quality and expand the scale of non-formal education services.

CONSULTANCY PURPOSE

Questscope is going to developed 8 technical manuals, and three educational exams for the NFE program,

For this purpose, the hired consultant will be responsible for:

1. Enhance the developed manuals and exams to meet the requirements and technical approaches.
2. Linguistic, spelling, and grammatical editing for the six manuals, and three exams.
3. Create technical presentation for six manuals to be uses in workshops and trainings sessions.

Delivery period:

Three weeks after contractual.

PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Payment will be delivered one week after the delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• Demonstrated experience in the non-formal education program,
• Experience working with the Ministry of Education in Jordan or other governmental bodies on content development or delivery.
• Experience in developing and creating manuals.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.

Language requirements: (for writing reports)

1. English: Fluent speaking and writing
2. Arabic: Fluent speaking and writing