HIRE A CONSULTANT TO CONDUCT FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING ON MENTAL HEALTH
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR CORE TEACHERS

Humanitarian Fund Project

1. Background on Save the Children

Save the Children is the leading global independent organisation for children.Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including th

Save the Children develops and documents an approach to improve mental health and resilience of vulnerable children and their parents in An Giang province from Nov 2021- Apr 2022:

• Increase of resilience and adaptive capacity of vulnerable children, parents and teachers on mental health and psychological problem to support prolonged home-based online learning
• Improve Risk Communication & Community Engagement (RCCE) activities of COVID-19 prevention measures for vulnerable parents & children

Then, it will advocate adaptation of the pilot model to provincial and central levels for replication across Vietnam.

This project will therefore directly target primary school students, their parents and teachers in a pilot that will result in replication of materials and learning from this model in other parts of the country for wider impact as the pandemic continues to evolve in An Giang particularly and Mekong Delta region generally while providing emergency relief to those families with children affected by COVID 19.

2. Objective

The primary objective of this assignment is to select a consultant to provide a face – to – face training of trainers (TOT) on Mental Health and Psychological Social Support (MHPSS) for core teachers in order to support children and parents of 20 primary schools in the project area. The training aims at providing teachers who come into direct contact with students and parents’ key concepts related to MHPSS, and how to apply basis engagement skills that promote safety and well-being of student during the pandemic and other crisis events that may occur later in life.

A training module must be developed based on SCI’s Psychological Fist Aid (PFA) in order to equip trainees with knowledge and understanding of concepts, guidance, and psychology social support especially psychology first aid to children in project schools.  

3. Consultant’s responsibilities:

The consultant is responsible to conduct a three-day training of trainers and 1.5 days for preparing and reporting) on Mental health and Psychological Support Service (MHPSS) for core teachers of 20 schools in An Giang Province. The training will be developed from SCI’s Psychological First Aid curriculum so that these core teachers will be able to cascade such trainings to all head teachers in the project schools, and thus conduct online trainings for parents in order to share with them about remote learning skills and psychological support.

The consultant will be in charge of providing a training material package, which also includes training agenda, one PPT and one hand out of content for 03 days training, lesson plan, pre and post-test, training evaluation, and a checklist of training materials as needed. 

The consultancy work will cover the following:

• Developing MHPSS training module
• Conduct TOT training for teachers, school management boards, DOET officers
• Conduct an evaluation of the training and documentation of feedback
• Consult to create an active two-way communication between teachers and parents on MHPSS using social networks such as Facebook, Zalo ….

4. Expected Deliverables

SCI expects the following deliverables to be provided:

Deliverable number	Deliverable title	Description	Format and style
1	Preparing training material packages and MHPSS training module	The consultant will prepare content, presentation, training document, handout and guideline on MHPSS based on the Save the Children’s Psychological First Aid	Presentation, word document, PDF
2	Conduct training	Conduct a 3-day TOT training for primary teachers in 20 project schools: 1st: Providing the knowledge and key understanding in mental health, psychology support and psychology first aid 2nd: Focusing on the skills for teachers to support children and parents based on MHPSS. 3rd:  Analyse case study and practice and consult to create an active two-way communication between teachers and parents on MHPSS using social networks such as Facebook, Zalo,…	Face – to – face training
3	Evaluation and documentation of training	The consultant will create pre and post tests, and training evaluation for the training and collect data, feedbacks and evidences to serve in the evaluation report	Google form or MS form, Word document
4	Reporting	Upon a training the consultant will compose a final report	Word document

5. Duration and Timeframe:

Estimated Commencement Date: 20 March 2022

Estimated End Date: 10 April 2022

Deliverable number	Deliverable title	Submit to	Delivery date
1	Preparing a training material packages and Mental Health Psychological Social Support training module	SCI Project Lead and Project Board	20 – 22 March 2022
2	Conducting training	SCI Project Lead	27 – 30 March 2022
3	Evaluation and documentation	SCI Project Lead	02 – 03 April 2022
4	Reporting	SCI Project Lead and Project Board	10 April 2022

Experience and skill set required

Education:

The consultant must hold a Master’s degree in psychology, social work or related field of study

Qualifications:

• Must demonstrate experience of providing similar services in country and INGOs context
• Must obtain good communication and presentation skills, especially face – to – face participatory training methods
• Able to produce quality work within deadline and under rush time
• Have experiences in a conflict setting considered strong attribute
• Able to read English documents is a plus
• Be a team player and ability to liaise with various counterparts

Experiences

• Must have at least 5+ years of professional experience in the mental health, psychology support, and social work and extensive relevant experience in training and education

HOW TO APPLY

The supplier should submit a financial proposal and CV through email address:  [email protected]

The deadline for responses is: 17:00 on 10 March 2022.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Organization: Save the Children
Location:
Application deadline: 2022-03-10
Send application to: [email protected]