Job Detail
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Job ID 30890
Job Description
Background
Heifer Project Nepal (HPN) has been implementing “Integrated Approach to Enhance Milk Quality, Dairy Animal Productivity, and Milk Consumption by vulnerable Household Member in Rural Nepal” project, with one of the major objectives to promote the consumption of Animal Source Food (ASF), especially milk among vulnerable community. To achieve the objective the project, aim to enhance nutrition education among mothers, fathers, and adolescent girls through nutrition education and participatory learning activities. Therefore, the Nutrition Consultant will develop comprehensive nutrition education curricula tailored to meet the needs of these target groups.
Purpose and Objectives
The main purpose of the consultancy is to provide the consultancy service to prepare nutrition curricula, ToT curricula for the prepared nutrition curricula. The specific objectives of are listed below:
- To prepare nutrition curricula for mothers, fathers, and adolescent girls.
- To prepare ToT curricula to prepare trainers for above mentioned nutrition curricula.
Scope of work
The consultant is expected to carry out following activities:
- Develop nutrition curriculum including training materials such as flipcharts, posters etc. for mothers, fathers, and adolescent girls, focusing on the promoting the consumption of animal source food, especially milk.
- Prepare ToT curriculum to prepare trainers for nutrition curriculum for mothers, fathers, and teen girls.
- Work closely with the project team and incorporate the recommendations of the project team in the curriculum.
- Design contextual, evidence based and culturally sensitive curriculum and activities.
Duration of contract and work plan
The duration of the consultancy is approximately 15 days, which includes 1 day for the discussion with project team on the content of the curricula, 7 days to prepare the nutrition curricula for mothers, fathers, and adolescent girls (nutrition club) and 7 days for the preparation of ToT curricula to prepare the trainers for nutrition curriculum of mothers’, fathers’ and teen girls. The training curricula, manual and training materials should be completed within 15th April 2024.
Tentative work plan is as follows:
| S.N. | Activity | Duration | Remarks |
| 1. | Coordination with project team and discuss on the content of the nutrition curricula | 1 day | |
| 2. | Preparation of nutrition curriculum for mothers’, fathers’, and adolescent girls (teen girls/Nutrition club) | 7 days | Three separate curricula |
| 3. | Preparation of ToT curricula for above curricula | 7 days | |
| Total Duration | 15 days |
Key Deliverables
The consultant is required to submit below mentioned documents to Heifer.
- Nutrition curricula with training materials such as flipchart, posters etc. tailored for mothers, fathers, and teen girls.
- ToT curriculum for the training of nutrition curriculum for mothers, fathers, and teen girls
Qualification and Experience Required
- Master’s degree in nutrition or a related field.
- Demonstrated minimum 3 years of experience in developing nutrition education materials and curricula.
- Experience in designing training programs and conducting ToT sessions.
- Knowledge of participatory learning methodologies and behavior change communication.
- Familiarity with issues related to animal-source foods and nutrition advocacy is desirable.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Please submit the proposal to Procurement-NP@heifer.org by 20th March 2024, 5 : 00 PM with email subject line “Proposal for human nutrition consultant” along with below documents.
- Cover letter
- CV
- Technical and Financial proposal
- Copy of VAT/PAN registration certificate
HPN reserves the right to accept or reject any proposal and to annul the selection process and reject all proposals at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to affected individuals.
Heifer Project Nepal
Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Ward No:15, Hattiban, Lalitpur district
Email: procurement-np@heifer.org
