Psychosocial Support Curriculum Developer Consultant

Background : The project “Promoting the Right to Education for All- Investing in a Community of Educated, Autonomous Citizens in South Lebanon” aims at broadening the prospects for vulnerable populations in three communities in South Lebanon through improved access to education (Improving the learning performances, enhancing the learning environment, engaging the local community in the promotion of education).

The project will benefit 800 children, youth, and caregivers from the most vulnerable populations in South Lebanon. Of these 800, 600 will be children (between the ages of 6 and 14), 100 youth (between 15 and 24 years old), and 100 adults (25 years and older), mainly caregivers of the children participating in the activities.

The 600 children, 400 children attend school and 200 do not attend school (They are taught Basic Literacy and Numeracy (BLN) to give them the basic tools to continue their education).

The youth will participate in project activities, especially Youth Basic Literacy Numeracy (YBLN), transferable skills training, psychosocial support, and community committees and initiatives as needed. These are usually young people who have difficulties finding work or educational opportunities. The adults are targeted through project activities, especially Adult Basic Literacy Numeracy (ABLN), transferable skills training, psychosocial support, and community committees and initiatives as needed. The target group is illiterate adults who have not gone to school or have dropped out of primary education. They will mostly be from the refugee community and will usually be the caregivers of the students enrolled in the project activities.

The aim of the assignment is to develop a comprehensive adapted curriculum for psychosocial support and its related training.

Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:

The Consultant will:

1. Develop an inclusive psychosocial support curriculum for learners to cover 52 sessions/45 minutes based on their needs and their different learning styles:

• Conduct a comprehensive desk review of existing PSS tools used by Amel in education and child protection programs.
• Synthesize these tools through a literature review and assessment of lessons learned into a contextualised and tailored package that meets the PSS needs of the target community. The curriculum will focus on community-based PSS (CBPSS) to ensure applicability across programs and as a cross-cutting activity, with an educational focus (e.g., coping with school-related stress, and community perspectives on education).
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders to gather recommendations and enrich the curriculum.
• Engage community members and target groups in the curriculum development process, focusing on including both genders from various age groups to gather input and facilitate the wider adoption of the curriculum.
• Produce a draft psychosocial curriculum and share it with relevant stakeholders for review and recommendations.
• Develop a PSS session plan that can be used in preparing sessions by the animators.
• Implement the drafted curriculum, and collect, and use the feedback to refine the final curriculum.
• Develop evaluation tools to enable facilitators, field coordinator, project coordinator, and learning development coordinator to assess the effectiveness of the implemented curriculum.
• Develop the final PSS curriculum, incorporating feedback and obtaining approval from relevant stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is suitably designed.

1. Provide the necessary training to the team members:

• Develop a training package on the PSS curriculum and provide guidelines for session management (including challenging behaviors). 
• Facilitate the training of the animators;

Deliverables and Work Plan:

Deliverable 1:

• Drafted curriculum,
• A template session plan
• Evaluation tool for sessions’ effectiveness

Deliverable 2:

• Refined drafted curriculum based on the collected feedback.
• Deliverable 3:
• Training of PSS animators and relevant team members on the developed curriculum
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• Requirements, Competencies and Qualifications: 
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• Master’s degree in Psychology, social work, or any relevant field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in research and/or development of education material
• Good knowledge of the educational context in Lebanon will be an asset.
• Autonomy, creativity, pragmatism, and orientation towards results;
• Reliability: fulfilling obligations in a highly responsible manner;
• Self-control and maintaining composure;
• Cultural sensitivity and cross-cultural skills (religion, ethnicity, gender);
• Attention to details, proper information management
• Tolerance and adaptability

Location: 

• Amel Association International HeadQuarters, Mussaitbeh, Beirut

• Visits to the centres (Haret Hreik and Bazourieh) when needed