Consultancy-Facilitator for Strategic Planning, Ideation and Community Project Development

                                        Terms of Reference – Consultancy

Facilitator for Strategic Planning, Ideation and Community Project Development

Introduction

RootsLab is a collaborative pilot project of Oxfam, FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, Global Fund for Women and Young Foundation that seeks to test how best to incubate social change driven by young women and trans activists.

Oxfam in Lebanon is looking to hire a Consultant to facilitate sessions on Strategic Planning, Ideation and Community Project Development for local initiatives across Lebanon.

Project Background

RootsLab is a feminist innovation lab that seeks to advance young women and trans people's rights, leadership and collective action. The project responds to the fact that deep-rooted gender inequality prevents millions of young women & trans people from making choices about and taking control of their own lives. Yet not enough resources go to them directly to help them address, innovate around and combat these challenges. They often lack the connections across sectors, financial resources, professional skills, networks and confidence necessary to develop their ideas, scale their projects, and access mentoring and coaching support. RootsLab seeks to tackle these challenges through offering a space for collective problem solving, and a structured support process to develop and test projects for new and exciting interventions. It provides formal linkages with women’s rights and feminist groups, tangible resources, key partnerships and support in targeted strategies for engagement, community mobilization, advocacy and communications.

Deliverables and Timeline

The consultancy is expected to start on January 30th, 2019 and end on March 15th, 2019. Dates will be communicated at least a week prior to every workshop.

The consultant will be expected to facilitate three individual full-day sessions with three different teams participating in RootsLab. Each workshop will be tailored to the needs of the respective initiative, covering one or more of the following objectives:

1. Strategy Setting

• Provide guidance around setting strategic priorities for the initiative.
• Work with participants to identify key partnerships in support of set objectives.
• Provide support to the team in developing strategic workplan.

2. Idea Generation and Project Development

• Facilitate creative process of generating and developing project ideas.
• Facilitate a problem identification session tailored to each initiative.
• Support analysis, contextualization and unpacking of ideas.
• Facilitate process of sorting ideas and coming up with final concept.
• Provide hands-on support to the team in fine-tuning their ideas to be viable for implementation and feed into the team’s larger visions.
• Support team in developing a detailed action plan.

The consultant(s) will be required to:

1. Meet with RootsLab’s project team prior to each session.
2. Prepare agenda, content and material, in collaboration with RootsLab’s project team.
3. Deliver workshops.
4. Submit workshop reports.

Reporting Line

The consultant will report to RootsLab Lebanon’s Project Manager.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Excellent facilitation skills and proven experience facilitating similar workshops.
• Ability to tailor training modules to the specific needs of local and community initiatives.
• Proven experience in strategic planning in development or social change initiatives.
• Solid understanding of project design methodologies, including theory of change.
• Solid understanding of gender justice issues in Lebanon.
• Commitment to the advancement of gender justice in Lebanon.
• Excellent language skills and ability to work Arabic.

Desirable

• Understanding of social innovation processes.
• Experience in community organizing and mobilization.
• Understanding of informal education in Syrian refugee communities.
• Previous experience in the areas of work.
• Previous involvement in feminist initiatives and/or social change activism in Lebanon.

Work Conditions

• The consultant will be expected to carry out the duties within the timeframe of the contract. Workshops might be conducted on weekends or outside of regular working hours.
• The consultant will be expected to travel to areas outside of Beirut (Aley, Tripoli and Bekaa).
• The project team will provide information on the project and the initiatives.
• The project team will review and sign off on training content and material prior to the sessions.
• Oxfam will be responsible for booking the venue and organizing the logistics of the trainings, as well as the coordination with participants.

Financial offers, CVs and cover letters should be submitted to Oxfam in Lebanon, by January 28th, 2019 on lebanonjobs@oxfam.org.uk.

N.B: Please note that unregistered individuals in the MOF will be subject to 7.5% service tax.