Framework Agreement with Specialist AC/DI Consultant

Objectives

Save the Children Ukraine is looking to establish a framework agreement for an Expert Consultant to provide additional specialist support in areas aligned with our Alternative Care and Deinstitutionalization strategy and in close collaboration with key stakeholders including relevant Ministeries, Local Authorities, Social Services, Children’s Affairs Services, and Office for Ombudsman.

Qualifications

The consultant must have a consistent and growing experience in sector of child protection for those deprived of parental care and deinstitutionalization, including:

• Proven experience of communication, in accordance with child safeguarding principles, with children deprived of parental care, children with disabilities and with high support needs, institutionalized children;
• Proven experience and excellent knowledge of the key elements of deinstitutionalizing children in European countries, including in post-Soviet countries;
• Proven experience of coordination, methodic and expert support to assess needs of children with high support needs in institutions;
• Proven experience and developed skills of training child protection specialists, monitors and social workers on the peculiarities of child development in residential institutions, needs assessment;
• Excellent knowledge about the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict on institutionalized children in Ukraine, key issues of the child institutionalization children in Ukraine, and the ongoing national deinstitutionalization process;
• Proven experience in analyzing children’s thoughts and behavior, including of those children who cannot speak verbally or have mental disability, children with high support needs;
• Proven experience of preparing high-quality analytical reports with conclusions relevant to the goal of the research.
• Application
• To express interest in work with Save the Children, the consultant should submit their proposal, including:
• Proposal letter (max. 5 pages) clearly stating the area(s) of expertise and highlighting relevant experience and capacity to undertake services listed in the ToR. The proposal should include a brief introduction and demonstrate an understanding of the scope of work required to successfully deliver the project, while briefly describing the approach, methods and design including tentative work plan and division of responsibility (if team of consultants is applying) suggested by the applicant. The proposal should include the name, address, telephone number, primary contact, and email address. You are welcome to include any other information deemed appropriate;
• Financial quotation that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price for the work, including cost breakdown (if relevant);
• Up-to-date professional profiles of the consultant (CVs of all individuals included in the consultancy team that will work on the research in case the legal entity is an applicant);
• Writing samples demonstrating the candidate’s qualifications for the project.
• Duties and Responsibilities: as per ANNEX attached