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Consultant to organize virtual online forum on SBCC

Job Description

Position title: Consultant to organize virtual online forum on SBCC

Location: Bangkok, Thailand (online)

Reports to: Social and Behavior Change Communication Specialist

USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons to host virtual online SBCC Event

The USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) project is hosting an online Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) two-day event from February 2-3, 2022.

BACKGROUND AND THEME

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is dedicated to reducing forced labor and trafficking in persons (TIP). To support this objective, USAID funds programming across the globe focused on combatting TIP. USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons (USAID Thailand CTIP) Program (2017-2022) is a five-year, $10 million activity specifically focused on reducing forced labor and TIP in Thailand.

The USAID Thailand CTIP project will host an event to showcase the SBCC activites undertaken under the project while also providing a platform for practitioners and partners working in CTIP to discuss and exchange experiences on using Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) in combatting TIP. The event will feature keynote speakers, presentations, and panel discussions while highlighting previous case studies and success stories of the USAID Thailand CTIP project and their partners.

SCOPE OF WORK

USAID Thailand CTIP is looking to hire an individual consultant or an organization to help design, coordinate, facilitate, and support logistics to conduct a successful virtual event. The USAID Thailand CTIP project will provide the consultant with all relevant information and serve as a liaison to support the consultant’s engagement with speakers, participants, and other relevant parties. The consultant will be expected to provide inputs on program design, speaker coaching, technical facilitator time, and project management. The consultant will also facilitate an engaging and informative virtual discussion using an online platform chosen by USAID CTIP programs (such as MS Teams or Zoom) and create an event report. The activity is set to be two days from February 2-3, 2022.

CONSULTANCY PERIOD The event will be hosted over February 2-3, 2022 and the consultancy period will run from late December until a week after the event.

DELIVERABLES:

• Virtual Program design

• Conference technical facilitation

• Note taking and discussion for finalizing the report

• Interpretation from English to Thai to English during the event as needed

• Final report, including all relevant recordings and screenshots; contact information (if not already shared)

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to provide backend support for the event (prepare, design, run and organize technical support for streaming) which will include:

• Ability to provide support for planning an online Conference Environment

• Ability to lead on Conference Program Design

• Participation registration and logistics including conference reminders.

• Live and Asynchronous participant technical support in the Conference Environment (MS Teams, Zoom)

• Conference Technical Facilitation

• Ability to support interaction design and consulting for conference programming which will include:

  • Participant Management

  • Speaker Management for 3 hours of content coaching and prep for speakers who have varying experience level with online webinars and workshops.

  • Pre-Conference Workshops Design, support, and/or facilitation as needed workshops before the conference introducing attendees to the content, technology, conference environment, and community of practice.

APPLICATIONS:

Applicants should send their expression of interest to info.th@winrock.org and submit a current resume and a sample of related work/portfolio with the mention “A virtual event on SBCC” by December 9, 2021.

Winrock would like to thank all applicants for their interest but only candidates who meet all requisite criteria and are shortlisted will be contacted.