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Save the Children International is looking for a Community outreach and training consultant for the Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Projects in Phang Nga Province

JOB TITLE:  Community outreach and training consultant for the Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Projects in Phang Nga Province

TEAM/PROGRAMME: The Water Safety and Drowning Prevention Projects     

LOCATION: Phang Nga Province

1. Background

Drowning is the most common cause of child death in Thailand killing around 2,700 children per year. A new trend is now emerging in many middle-income countries with increased child deaths from injury and accident. Thailand’s late remarkable economic rise has created new hazards and vulnerabilities for children. 

Save the Children Thailand is leading a child safety for survival program in Khao Lak, Phang Nga province funded by the Michael Holland foundation which aims at enhancing children’s knowledge of drowning prevention and contributing to reduce child injury and death by drowning across Thailand. 

Save the Children will run a program in Phang Nga in collaboration with the Thai Life Saving Society (TLSS) and Marriott, with overall objective of promoting child drowning prevention through the following methodologies: 

(1) Conducting prevention activities and educating children on drowning prevention in target schools as well as encouraging children to enroll in Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers;

(2) Building community awareness;

(3) Monitoring survival swimming lessons for children and

(4) Leading national and local advocacy initiatives 

With its pilot water safety program in Khao Lak, Save the Children is planning to protect 38,000 children from injury or death and intends to raise 200,000 people’s awareness. Save the Children will also conduct swimming lessons with 600 children age 8 to 12. The project will be launched in September 2016 and will run until March 2019. 

The purpose of this consultancy

Save the Children will hire a consultant to conduct community outreach and trainings in selected primary schools and an Early Childhood Development Center in Khao Lak, Phang Nga Province with the following objectives:

1) To prevent children under five year old from drowning through promoting improved supervision and conducting water safety train trainings in primary schools and ECDs.

2) To raise community awareness of water safety 

2. Scope of this consultancy:

A consultant will be hired to conduct community outreach and training organization. The following is the outline of a suggested process; however, it would be expected that this would be further refined by the consultant. The aforementioned activities shall be undertaken based on the Save the Children International requirements and must be in line with Save the Children’s ethical guideline 

Preparatory work:

- Improve supervision and organize swimming safety trainings:

• Explore options to improve care through Thai and Non-Thai communities
• Develop or contextualize water safety interactive education materials and manuals appropriate for children under five drawing on existing characters (such as Alert Little Tun, Water Giants or Jabari in the Water) and their parents.

 - Engage with the Thai and Non-Thai communities to raise awareness on drowning prevention:

• Work with each ECD center to come up with a plan for outreach strategy.
• Lead workshop with partners to raise awareness on drowning risk and mitigation strategies.

Field Work:

• TOT Training to ECD, elementary school and FED staff on water safety as well as how to use water safety materials and share key messages for children and their parents.
• Raise awareness on the importance of childcare with caregivers (EDC teacher, elementary schools and FED school to come and talk at a community event).
• Organize children camp on water safety for children and parents (including risk assessment of the villages). 

Data Processing, Analysis and Reporting:

• Report program implementation data and learning
• Draft Report and Final Reports
• Presentation on key findings 

3. Deliverables

Note that all deliverables will be reviewed and must be approved by the Save the Children Phang Nga Field Coordinator and or Sr. Child Safety Programme Coordinator

4. Consultant qualifications and profile

• Thai National
• Have expertise on workshop on child friendly media production
• Have good knowledge on child rights and child protection
• Have experiences working with young children and parents
• Be flexible and willing to work in difficult conditions and or with the multiple cultures
• Have good interpersonal skills 

5. Management of consultancy

The Consultant will work closely with Phang Nga Field Coordinator and or Sr. Child Safety Programme Coordinator on planning of workshop trainings, children camp and the development of media.

Save the Children will provide technical support as necessary in a timely manner.

6. Timeframe

The consultancy service period for the whole assignment is from December 2016 to May 2017. 

7. Consultancy Budget

The consultant is requested to submit the proposal and detailed budget, e.g. transportation, accommodation, etc. with their application letter. The financial competitiveness of the fee will be considered in the selection process.

3% withholding tax will be deducted from the individual. 

Submissions for the consultancy

The submission must address the terms of reference and include: 

• Name and contact details of applicant
• Resume of the lead consultant
• A cover letter outlining the relevant experience and expertise of the consultant and initial ideas on the approach to be taken the achieve the consultancy objectives
• A draft summary activities proposal
• A detailed quote in THB (including travel and other costs), 

Close date for submissions: 30 November 2016

Submissions should be addressed to: hr.thailand@savethechildren.org

 “We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.”