Solar Repair and Maintenance Trainer Service Contract

About ACTED

ACTED is an international NGO that has been registered in Leba­non since 2006. It has an established country office in Beirut as well as a field office in Akkar. More recently, it has been carrying out activities in the South, Akkar, Mount Lebanon and Tripoli.

ACTED works closely with local authorities and civil society stakeholders at the com­munity level to implement priori­ty humanitarian interventions such as emergency multi-purpose cash assis­tance, WASH projects (including disease monitoring and infrastructural and behavioural response), and Shelter interven­tions incorporating multiple modalities. ACTED is also implementing long-term development projects with focus on agriculture cooperatives to rehabilitate infrastructure, improv­e agricultural production, increase livelihood opportunities and support state and non-state ac­tors to improve service deliv­ery and social stability through col­lective development planning.

Project: Women Economic Participation-Funded by UNDP

This project’s overall objective is “to contribute to the economic empowerment of Lebanese and Syrian women in Lebanon”. The project is designed to build the economic resilience and capacity of conflict affected, displaced and hosting women and girls in the South and Bekaa region of Lebanon.

The interventions will seek to integrate women’s economic participation with advocacy efforts, focusing at the individual, community and systemic levels.

It focuses in one part on improving the technical capacity of women on targeted value chain to improve their access to secure and sustainable income and livelihoods and on institutional and community levels to enhance the capacity of stakeholders to recognize women’s specific economic needs and to enact policy change to address them.

To this end, the project will promote inclusive and market system development through looking at the economic, social and environmental enabling environment that is necessary to function effectively and equitably.

The targeted beneficiaries will receive a package of trainings and awareness sessions that will empower them, and provide them with basic skills to be in a better position to seek, at the end of the project, improved livelihood opportunities.

ACTED is seeking one or more consultant(s) to provide training on the following indicative list of topics. Trainings are to be provided to female beneficiaries with

1. Workshop Topics

• Basics of renewable energy
• Installation and maintenance of solar panels (on-grid and off-grid)
• Diagnostics and repair of solar panels (on-grid and off-grid)
• Installation and maintenance of solar street lights
• Resources to identify job opportunities in Lebanon

Note: In light of COVID-19 impacts, trainings may be offered via distance learning methods. The consultant(s) must be able to adapt the trainings to specific conditions as required.

2. Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Provide a training outline including main learning objectives and training topics per session. Trainings must include media or other relevant materials such as manuals, journals, literature etc.
2. Conduct theoretical as well as practical trainings for 75 female beneficiaries. Total number of training days will be decided in coordination with the consultant(s). Please provide a training plan along with your CV including duration of each training cycle, no of beneficiaries per cycle, training location and key materials needed (including for practical sessions). Please indicate if you have pre-identified a location with materials already available.
3. Suggest a BoQ for in-kind kits to be provided for trainees. The kits must include items to implement training topics such as tools, materials etc.
4. Provide job-counselling and job matching services for 75 female beneficiaries in partnership with ACTED job-placement officer. Support in securing work-based learning opportunities/employment opportunities for beneficiaries. All employment opportunities must follow guidelines of the Lebanese labour law.

3. Reporting:

• Register daily attendance of beneficiaries as per the attendance sheet provided by ACTED team
• Develop and conduct pre and post tests
• Follow up and report the number of sessions provided and report to the training coordinator/Project Manager
• Provide weekly work plan to the training Coordinator/Project Manager
• Provide weekly reports to the training Coordinator/Project Manager with information on training progress

4. Coordination:

• Coordinate with Project Manager and project team on all updates related to the implementation process

5.Target audience and profile:

• The training will be delivered to a mixed group of vulnerable Lebanese beneficiaries, 18 years old and above.
• The training will be provided to 75 female beneficiaries in the south governorate.

Areas are as follows: Bent Jbeil, Nabatiyeh, Sour, Hasbaya and Saida districts (including Ain Ebel, Debel, Hariss, Yanouh, Kfar dounine, Arab Salim, Abbasye, Bourj Rahal, Jannata, Qana, Hasbaya, Sarafand municipalities

• Beneficiaries’ selection will be carried out by ACTED team

6. Required competencies:

• Degree in electrical engineering, renewable energy or other related fields.
• At least 2 years experience in designing/installing solar PV systems/street-lighting required.
• Previous experience managing solar PV projects in Lebanon preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ongoing solar PV projects (both public and private)
• Extensive network of solar PV contractors in Lebanon required
• Clear understanding of Ministry guidelines of solar Projects in Lebanon required
• Previous experience delivering trainings preferred.
• Excellent Arabic skills, both written and oral required.

7. Documents to be Submitted:

1. A detailed cover letter outlining previous relevant experience, skills and degrees.
2. An up-to-date CV

A training plan outlining duration of each training cycle, no of beneficiaries per cycle, training location and key materials needed (including for practical sessions). Please indicate if you have pre-identified a location with materials already available.