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(Job Id: 506826 | 1087 Views) Posted 00 UNK
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Consultancy and Training, Education
Location:
Addis Ababa 
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Job Description

SECTION A: - BACKGROUND 
Dereja, is a social enterprise unit of Infomind Solutions PLC.  Dereja has been serving as a bridge by working with several universities in Ethiopia to capacitate graduating students on their employability skills, organizing several national and regional career fairs, and has been a pioneer in establishing career development centres across Ethiopian universities.
In the past five years, Dereja has been working in collaboration with the Ministry of Education; Ministry of Labor and Skills, Public and Private Universities; Employer Companies; and Donor agencies to tackle the critical youth unemployment issue in the country.  Its theory of change is to create partnerships with universities and target students prior to their graduation with Dereja training programs and job fair clinics to build their employment and professional skills. 
Since 2020, Dereja has been working in collaboration with different donors and implementing partners including Mastercard Foundation, AMREF Health Africa, and World Bank as well as different government institutions to address issues in relation with unemployment within the country. Through the partnership with Mastercard Foundation, Dereja works in empowering and preparing fresh graduates through different platforms and works to connect them to the labour market. Through the partnership with Amref health Africa, Dereja focuses on addressing the unemployment issues in relation with TVET graduates through Kefeta program. In collaboration with Ministry of labour and Skills and the World Bank, Dereja is addressing the challenges with regards to unemployment specifically for less educated urban youth groups through Bikat program. 
To-date, Dereja has trained around 45,000 graduates on employability skills training with the established partnership of 18 public universities; reached 14,250 graduates through two virtual and eight regional job fairs and facilitated employment linkage opportunities for over 100,000 graduates out of these more than 70,000 of them have secured employment.
Over the years Dereja through its diverse soft skills, employability skills, and job readiness training, has attempted to bridge skill gaps of fresh graduates with the market demand. Most recently, the Digital Literacy Skills of fresh graduates are the latest gap identified by Dereja as a hindrance to their personal and professional development. This gap is identified based on valuable feedback from partner employers, partner universities, Dereja Accelerator Academy trainers, and trainees themselves. 
Cognizant of the existing digital literacy skills gap and its impact on the candidates' employability, Dereja is planning to provide comprehensive digital literacy skills training for university undergraduate students. The program aimed at equipping students; with the essential Digital Literacy Skills and Competencies required to navigate the digital landscape effectively. The training will be provided to 5,000 students at 18 partner universities who are at different levels of digital literacy skills:  beginner level, intermediate level and advance level.

Thus, to deliver impactful digital literacy skills training, the preparation of a standard training/participants manual, a trainers’/facilitators’ guide, and assessment tools for candidate trainees' digital literacy skills level is very crucial. 
Dereja is therefore looking for potential firms with track records of experience in the preparation of training materials. 

Duration: 
The development of training materials and assessment tools for digital literacy skills cannot exceed 15 days starting from the date the contract agreement is signed. The specific time frame will be provided in the contract agreement. On the other hand, the validation workshop will be organized within a week after the firm submits the training materials to the client. 

SECTION B:- REQUIRED ENGAGEMENT 
- To Develop a training package and assessment tool for the Digital literacy Skill training  

SECTION C:-  DETAIL TASKS OF THE FIRM;
  1. Designing and developing a comprehensive and step-by-step training module of digital literacy skills training for beginner level, and intermediate level (please see Content of the training materials on the Annex section) 
  2. Preparing a trainer’s manual/facilitator guide for the digital literacy skills training for beginner, intermediate and introduction to advance level, along with PowerPoint presentation.
  3. Develop assessment tools that will be used to assess the digital literacy skills level of the trainees before the training commencement and after the training is completed. Separate assessment tools should be designed for the two levels of digital literacy skills. 
  4. Develop training delivery follow-up and quality monitoring tools and conduct on-site training delivery follow-up.
  5. Participate in a one-day training materials validation workshop, present the training materials, and collect feedback and suggestions from external reviewers, invited experts, and the Dereja training team.
  6. Update and enrich the training materials by incorporating the feedback and suggestions collected on the validation workshop.
  7. Deliver at 3 - 5 days of ToT training for DLS trainers (university instructors) and the Dereja training team.  
SECTION D: - DELIVERABLE 
  1. Compressive Digital literacy skills training package (training manual for participants for beginner and intermediate level, trainer’s module for facilitators for beginner and intermediate with PowerPoint presentations.  
  2. Standard assessment tools that will be used to assess the digital literacy skills level of the trainees before the training commencement and after the training is completed.
  3. Standard training delivery follow-up and quality monitoring tool.
  4. To Conduct validation workshops and incorporate all the comments given to the materials.
  5. To Conduct a 3 to 5 days ToT training for selected university instructors 
  6. A comprehensive final report that includes all the processes taken and recommendations. 

Annex A

Table 4: The digital literacy skills competency area and competencies to be assessed

No

Competence Area

Competences

1

Fundamentals of hardware and software

-        Basic knowledge of hardware such as turning on/off charging, and locking devices

-        Basic knowledge of software such as user account and password management, login, and how to do privacy settings, etc.

2

Information and data literacy

-        Browsing, searching, and filtering data, information, and digital content

-        Evaluating data, information, and digital content

-        Managing data, information, and digital content

3

Communication and Collaboration

-        Interacting through digital technologies

-        Sharing through digital technologies

-        Engaging in citizenship through digital technologies

-        Collaborating through digital technologies

-        Netiquette

-        Managing digital identity

4

Digital content creation

-        Developing digital content

-        Integrating and re-elaborating digital content

-        Copyright and licenses

-        Programming

5

Safety

-        Protecting devices

-        Protecting personal data and privacy

-        Protecting health and well-being

-        Protecting the environment

6

Problem-solving

-        Solving technical problems

-        Identifying needs and technological responses

-        Creatively using digital technologies

-        Identifying digital competence gaps

-        Computational thinking

7

Career-related competencies

Career-related competencies refer to the knowledge and skills required to operate specialized hardware/software for a particular field, such as engineering design software and hardware tools, or the use of learning management systems to deliver fully online or blended courses

**UNESCO - A Global Framework of Reference on Digital Literacy Skills for Indicator 4.4.2

Annex A

Table 1: Main contents of the beginner’s level training materials and competence areas

No

Main Topics

Competence Area

1

Introduction to Digital Literacy

-

2

Computer systems and mobile devices

Devices and software operations

3

Working with MS Windows 10

4

Basics of word processing (MS Word)

5

Basics of Spreadsheet (MS Excel)

6

Working with presentation tools

(MS PowerPoint and overview of other tools)

7

Basics of web browsing and the internet

Information and data literacy

8

Email uses and its etiquette

Communication and Collaboration

Table 2: Main contents of the intermediate-level training materials and competence areas

#

Main Topics

Competence Area

1

Intermediary level of word processing (MS Word)

Devices and software operations

2

 Intermediary-level of spreadsheet (MS Excel)

3

Online collaboration tools

Communication and Collaboration

4

Virtual meeting and communication tools, and their etiquette

5

Advanced web browsing (web searching and information filtering techniques)

Information and data literacy

6

Professional social media, digital networking, and their etiquette

 

Career-related competencies

7

Online job searching, and application

8

Digital footprint and online safety

Safety

Job Requirement

SECTION E: CONSULTANCY FIRM REQUIREMENTS/ QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Technical knowledge and experience in developing training material packages specifically on Digital skills 
  • Experience in the provision of training to higher education instructors.
  • Understanding and prior experience working with higher education settings is a plus. 
Institutional arrangement:
  • The selected consultant firm will work under the supervision of the Dereja Training Manager.  

SECTION F: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW.
  • Technical proposal which includes a Detailed understanding of the TOR, Organization profile together with related experience, and Team composition
  • Financial proposal
  • CVs of the Team
  • Renewed Business license, and TIN certificate
  • Letter of expression of interest (cover letter); and
  • References from organizations previously involved with previously.

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