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Scope of Work

Learning Event Consultant

USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking (CTIP) in Persons Activity

Location:                           Thailand

Reports to:                        Meghan MacBain – Chief of Party for the USAID Thailand CTIP Activity

Duration:                           Up to 15 days (120 hours)

Timeframe:                       March 2024 – May 2024

Background:

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) Activity implemented by Winrock International aims to reduce TIP in Thailand and to better protect the rights of trafficked persons. The USAID Thailand CTIP Activity is a ten-year activity, entering its seventh year of implementation. The USAID Thailand CTIP Activity will host an event to showcase the local system strengthening activities undertaken in the preceding years, while also providing a platform for practitioners and partners working in CTIP to discuss and exchange experiences on using best practices and lessons learned in combatting TIP.

The goal of this learning event is to ensure that all participants feel encouraged to share their thoughts and that people from different sectors feel more connected. In addition to knowledge sharing, this event will act as a networking opportunity for participants to foster favorable relations, which will benefit them for future collaboration. The event will feature keynote speakers, presentations, and panel discussions while highlighting previous case studies and success stories of the USAID Thailand CTIP Activity and their partners.

Assignment Summary:

USAID Thailand CTIP Activity is looking to hire an individual consultant or an organization to help design, coordinate, facilitate, and support logistics to conduct a successful event. The USAID Thailand CTIP Activity will provide the consultant with all relevant information and serve as a liaison to support the consultant’s engagement with speakers, participants, and other relevant parties. The consultant will be expected to provide input on program design, speaker coaching, technical facilitator time, and event management. The consultant will also facilitate an engaging and informative discussion and create an event report. The event is anticipated to be a half-day event in May.

Tasks:

• Lead on the development of program design.
• Lead on the hiring of vendors for the event, staying within provided budget.
• Provide technical facilitation to ensure seamless execution of the event.
• Note taking and discussion for finalizing the report.
• Interpretation from English to Thai and vice versa during the event as needed.
• Final report, including all relevant recordings and screenshots; contact information (if not already shared), summited within requested deadline.

Deliverables:

• Lead and manage a half-day learning event.
• Notes from the event - should be no less than 20 pages.
• Final report - should be no less than 20 pages.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to provide backend support for the event (prepare, design, run and organize technical support) which will include:
• Ability to provide support for planning an in-person and hybrid event.
• Ability to lead in Conference Program Design.
• Participation registration and logistics including conference reminders.
• Conference Technical Facilitation.
• Ability to support interaction design and consulting for conference programming which will include:
• Participant Management.
• Speaker Management for 3 hours of content coaching and prep for speakers who have varying experience levels with online webinars and workshops.
• Pre-Conference Workshops Design, support, and/or facilitation as needed for workshops before the conference, introducing attendees to the content, technology, conference environment, and community of practice.

APPLICATIONS:

Applicants should send their expression of interest to TCTIP.recruitment@winrock.org and submit a current resume and a sample of related work/portfolio with the mention “Learning Event Consultant” by March 15, 2024.

Winrock would like to thank all applicants for their interest but only candidates who meet all requisite criteria and are shortlisted will be contacted.