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REQUEST FOR CONSULTANT

LINKAGES Thailand: Online Activities for Transgender Consultant

Issue Date: June 26, 2018

Closing Date: July 6, 2018                               

About FHI 360

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), FHI 360 manages the “Linkages across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV (LINKAGES)” Project in more than 28 countries throughout the world, including Thailand.  LINKAGES in Thailand focuses on interventions to reduce HIV transmission among key populations, predominantly among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders (TG). Most interventions are implemented through community-based organizations (CBOs) and include RRTTPR interventions such as peer-driven outreach, use of social media, HIV testing in community clinic settings, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provision, and increasingly, HIV treatment in community-based clinic settings. The costing study summarized here is partially supported by the LINKAGES Project.

Scope of Work

FHI 360 is seeking a consultant to conduct the following:

LINKAGES Thailand and its implementing partners are seeking ways to expand its work to reach hidden communities of online key populations (KPs) through social media channels. Facebook page administrators and popular social media “online influencers” have a tremendous influence in the lifestyles of KPs, through the contents of their widely-followed postings. By forming partnerships with these online celebrities and gatekeepers, LINKAGES can use their popular feeds, channels, and pages to promote messaging and testing-reservation tools, allowing us to bring people from online spaces into the offline spaces where testing and other health services are provided.

To launch this strategy, LINKAGES Thailand will contract a selected vendor, who is a recognized of having understanding about transgender context and fluence of using social media. This vendor will work 10 days a month with a fixed duration of 6 months, allowing the project to measure and record the success through this strategy and to revise the strategy for wider replications and applications. In this effort, the Transgender Online Activities Consultant will focus on two areas:

(1) assisting LINAKAGES implementing partners namely Tangerine Clinic, SWING Bangkok, and RSAT Bangkok on their online activities and campaign related to transgender population and
(2) provide SBCC technical support to implementing partners to other related reach to test and PrEP uptake activities among Transgender population in Thailand.

Qualifications

A successful applicant should have the following qualifications:

1. Basic understanding of the LINKAGES Project’s scope and strategies.

2. Understanding the complexity and sensitivity of connecting with KPs, especially TG Community, in Thailand. 

3. Preferably, but not necessarily, be a member of a KP community.

4. Experience in acquiring a broad social media audience and disseminating and engaging with members of that audience. 

5. Excellent communication skills specific to the context of KP and sexual health topics.

Task/ Deliverables

1. Asisting LINAKAGES implementing partners namely Tangerine Clinic, SWING Bangkok, and RSAT Bangkok on their online activities and campaign related to transgender population and

2. Coordinate with transgender social media influencers to conduct Live on Facebook to talk about Trans Health to be used as a platform to conduct online outreach to test for community clinics. The estimated number of Facebook Live by social media influencers is 12 times in 6 month (Average of 2 times a month). We separate it as in these tables as below.. 

3. Providing SBCC technical support to implementing partners on other related reach to test and PrEP uptake activities among Transgender population in Thailand.

4. FHI360 will discuss with the consultant if there is any requirement for technical assistance needed to support our work within the scope of transgender, online, and reach to test activities.

Period of Performance
The estimated Period of Performance is July 15, 2018 – September 30, 2018, but these dates will be negotiated with the chosen consultants depending on the actual scope of work.

Instruction to Applicants and Submission Requirements

FHI 360 is requesting interested applicants to provide the following documents specified below. Please submit all requirements by e-mail to hr.thailand@fhi360.org by 5.00 PM Bangkok time on July 6, 2018. Applications received after this date and time will not be considered

1. A letter of interest addressing expertise and experience relevant to the scope of work (1 pages maximum). Consultants may apply for any or all scopes of work but this should be made clear in the letter of interest. The letter must include the following:

     - Soonest dates of availability.

     - Desired consulting rate based on consulting and/or work history. A final consulting rate will be negotiated with FHI 360.

2. Up-to-date CV(s) for all key areas.

3. A completed FHI360 Bio Data Form. Please download here: https://goo.gl/J27m78