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Community Engagement is a vital component for the promotion and delivery of equitable health, nutrition and social services to public. Frontline workers in Malawi such as Health Surveillance Assistant (HSAs), Nutrition Promoters, Social Service workers generally serve as the first point of contract between the communities and service providers. They have a critical role in disseminating information, facilitating access to essential services including building trust on the available services and service providers and making referrals for improving service uptake.

To strengthen the community engagement efforts, the Health Promotion Department (HPD), Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNICEF, USAID and World Bank, has drafted a comprehensive Community Engagement Toolkit in English. The Community Engagement Toolkit aims to strengthen and support the frontline workers engagement by providing practical guidance, tools and resources tailored to their unique roles of providing the gender and culturally sensitive, technically correct and localized information to the community at large. The toolkit is drafted in English and there is a need to review the toolkit in terms of technical consistency, language, flow, availability of the services. The translated will be used by the frontline workers in the outreach clinics, health talks, cultural gatherings and community-based meetings.

The translation will not only involve linguistic conversation but also cultural adaptation to ensure the message, tone, and examples used are contextually appropriate and resonate with the communities. The toolkit will be pre-test to validate the relevancy and clarity. The proposed assignment requires a deep understanding of cultural norms, local languages, and community-specific contexts. As the assignment requires specialized linguistic, cultural and technical expertise to do a high quality, technically correct and culturally responsive translations and office do not have staff with the set skills set.

How can you make a difference? 

The consultant will be responsible for reviewing the draft Community Engagement Toolkit (English) for frontline workers to ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy. Additionally, the consultant will translate the toolkit from English to Chichewa while maintaining the consistency with the and effectiveness of the original content.

The consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Conduct a thorough review of the Community Engagement Toolkit (English) provided by HPD to ensure accuracy of the information in each chapter, alignment with current guidelines and polices, technical correctness and language.
• Submit the revised English version for review by the technical working group.
• Finalise the English version.
• Layout design of the English version using appropriate illustrations and images (can use existing images and illustrations already approved by the government).
• Translate the toolkit from English into Chichewa, ensuring that technical terms and concepts are accurately conveyed in a culturally appropriate manner including linguistic clarity. The translated version should maintain the original intent, meaning, and technical precision of the toolkit while adapting the language for the frontline workers.
• Work closely with HPD, UNICEF, and other stakeholders to validate key terminologies and ensure the translation aligns with sector-specific guidelines.
• Conduct a final proofread of the translated document to ensure it meets high-quality standards.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Academic qualification:  

Master’s degree in Public Health or Health Education.  

Work experience:

• Minimum ten (10) years of proven experience in translating documents from English to Chichewa, related to health and nutrition areas, particularly for international organizations.
• Experience in reviewing and editing technical documents, particularly in health, nutrition, protection, emergency, gender, hygiene and sanitation.
• Experience in developing faciliators/tranining manual or capacity building manual on health and nutrition for community health workers and other caders at the communtiy level.

Technical skills, knowledge and strength areas:

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality translations, maintaining technical accuracy and cultural relevance.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining the integrity of the original text.

Languages:  

• Fluent in Chichewa and English – excellent verbal and written skills in both languages.

Please refer to the attached full Terms of Reference  Terms of Reference Community Engagement Toolkit.pdf for more details on the consultancy and requirements.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

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HOW TO APPLY...

Interested consultants should provide the following:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Brief technical proposal (no longer than five pages) demonstrating the consultant’s understanding of the assignment and approach/methodology to the assignment
3. Financial proposal including a breakdown of their all-inclusive fees (including professional fees, travel, living cost, visa and other costs). Financial Proposal for Consultancy.xlsx Complete the attached form.
4. References details

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.