SSA_2024_Malawi_International Short-term Expert (ISTE) / Leadership Course Development and Delivery to TEVETA as well as the Centres of Vocational Excellence (COVEs) and their Network Partner Institutes (NPI) Leaders and Senior Staff Members.

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Specific Objective of this Assignment<br />Under Specific Objective 2 of the project, the primary objectives of this consulting assignment are to develop and thereafter deliver appropriate leadership courses for leaders and senior staff members at the Technical and Entrepreneurship Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA), as well as the four Centres of Vocational Excellence (COVEs) and their Network Partner Institutions (NPI). The training is required to ensure effective leadership of these very important TEVET institutions. A Training Needs Assessment has already been undertaken and the Leadership Courses and interventions will be developed and delivered to address the identified needs.<br />Scope of Work: <br />The selected International Short-Term Expert (ISTE) will lead the assignment and will be supported by the National Short-Term Expert (NSTE) to achieve the assignment objectives. The team of two experts will coordinate with the TA Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader, and national stakeholders to develop a workplan for the duration of the assignment, to include, but not be limited to, the following activities:<br /><br />1. Design the courses/interventions and produce course outlines for training of the Leaders in TEVETA, COVEs and NPIs:<br />• Review the training needs identified for leaders of TEVETA, CoVEs and those of Network Partner Institutions.<br />• Design appropriate courses/interventions and produce course outlines including the course objectives, learning outcomes, course content, methods of instruction and methods of assessment.<br />• Attention and extra points will be given to proposals that include innovative forms of capacity building not just traditional leadership training courses. <br />2. Develop the content for the leadership training for TEVETA. CoVEs and Network Partner Institution leaders.<br />• Develop the content to be delivered to meet the objectives of the courses/interventions.<br />• Pilot test parts of the programme with a sample of participants to confirm its robustness and make corrections where necessary.<br />• Prepare course materials required to deliver the training to TEVETA, the COVEs and Network Partner Institution Leaders <br />• Prepare the Course delivery instructions to be used during programme delivery.<br />• Develop a tool for assessing the performance of each participant to the leadership training/intervention.<br />• Develop a training evaluation tool to evaluate the courses upon completion.<br />• Design a report format to be utilized when compiling a report on the entire assignment.<br />3. Deliver training designed to address training needs of leaders of TEVETA, CoVEs and NPIs.<br />• Review the delivery instructions developed during programme development.<br />• Review the training materials developed to address the identified training needs.<br />• Prepare an appropriate training programme to be followed during course delivery.<br />• Deliver the training materials according to the proposed programme.<br />• Assess the performance of each participant to the leadership training as the course is delivered.<br />• Programmes may be delivered jointly or separately for each institute type based on content and relevance to their needs.<br />4. Undertake an evaluation of the leadership training at the end of the course delivery.<br />• Using the training evaluation tool developed, obtain feedback from the participants about course just delivered and the extent of the skills and knowledge transfer during course delivery.<br />5. Prepare and submit a training report.<br />• Using the report format provided, write a detailed report on the course conducted to include your assessment of the performance of each participant to the course and participants’ evaluation of the course.<br />• Submit the training report to the Zantchito TA Project as stipulated in the consultancy contract.<br />Deliverables:<br />The ISTE will be responsible for drafting all reports, designing and delivering the programmes while the NSTE will provide support in gathering information and data and provide feedback and input to the reports and programmes as well as contributing to the training if and when needed, hence the difference in allocated man-days between the experts. The ISTE will be responsible for delivering the following:<br />a. A brief Inception Report: In collaboration with the National Short-term expert, develop a report outlining the proposed methodology, the programme structure and a delivery work plan within two weeks of contract signing.<br />b. Draft Programme design: In collaboration with the National Short-term expert, submit a draft programme design and content, a final delivery programme and course delivery instructions for approval.<br />c. Programme delivery: In collaboration with the National Short-term expert, delivery the capacity building interventions.<br />d. Final Report: A report on the programme design and delivery will be submitted the Zantchito Technical Assistance Project<br />