Short Term External Consultant

Announcement Description

Organization to improve communication and swallowing therapy services in Cambodia (OIC Cambodia) is a local non-government organization working in the field of speech therapy. Our vision is to support the development of a speech therapy profession led by Cambodians and available to all who need it. We have the mission to establish speech therapy university courses and jobs for Cambodians, raise awareness, and influence government policy.

In 2022-23 OIC has had 2 funded projects which have partnered with the social service workforce and local communities across within 4 provinces in Cambodia.

Project 1: Family Care First project (USAID funds) “Enhancing Service Provision and Child Protection Response for Children with disabilities through specialist skill-building for supporting children with communication and swallowing difficulties” implemented in Kampot, Kompong Speu and Kompong Chnang.

Project 2: World Childhood Foundation , OIC implemented the project “Protecting and raising the voice of children with communication disabilities” with information gathered from Siem Reap and Kompong Chnang.

Within these 2 projects we had substantial scoping activities conducting interviews with local authorities, government stakeholders and families of people with communication disabilities. The findings from these activities have informed past and current project design and practice. Currently, we have some internal summaries, reports and various level of analysis of this data, however, we do not have a summary in a shareable form for publishing on our website or with partners. We are looking for a summary report to highlight overall key findings with supporting quotes (referencing source docs). This report is essential for consolidating key learnings and providing both our own staff with key messages as well as for sharing with others to support their highlighting of the need for targeted support for people with communication disabilities throughout Cambodia’s systems.

Position Purpose:

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the OIC team to consolidate and share key findings of 2 years of engaging with the social service sector (child protection and community social work) in a number of Cambodian provinces.

Announcement Positions

• LOCATION: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• SCHEDULE: Consultant
• SALARY: USD 1000 (One thousand dollar) with an estimated 5 day-works

1. SCOPE OF THE CONSULTANCY

• Review source documents and highlight the key data and supporting examples
• Write Summary report and Presentation​ (in a form that OIC can use for web publication and public sharing)
• Present recommendations for OIC to improve data analysis, organisation and presentation of collected learnings

Specific Conditions

Sources for this report will include:

• Summary presentations of Childhood social service engagement
• Raw data from interviews and survey responses Childhood baselining (excel spreadsheet)
• Report of findings from FCF scoping activities (XXX pages)
• Feedback forms from training and training reports
• Proposal documents for both projects (providing background into the context for the activities)
• other OIC docs available on request

OIC staff involvement

• OIC staff will provide orientation to documents
• OIC staff directly involved in the baselining and scoping services are available for discussion and clarification (suggest holding a focus group based on topics you want to clarify)

Suggested headings for the summary report (not limited to these):

1. Experiences of families of children with communication disabilities
   • general (Access to support Services, Community attitudes, access to education/ health, other)
   • facilitators or barriers to inclusion and access
   • specific experience with social service workforce concerning children with communication difficulties (Social workers, CWCC, POSVY, DOSVY, OPD’s) 
   • specific experience/ attitudes of child protection/ abuse

2. Experiences of social service workforce
   • general (levels of training and experience with people with disabilities, attitudes)
   • specific experience/ attitudes of child protection/ abuse with children with communication difficulties
   • workforce response to training and coaching activities

3. Systems of social services
   • include key data gathered on reporting services from local to national level
   • discuss briefly challenges and gaps highlighted from baseline data

Key Deliverables and timing

1. REPORTING

The consultant will report to OIC Acting program manager, Than Meak who will be the main focal point for this project and with parallel reporting lines to other members of OIC’s Management team. Ms Ruth Bryce, ST profession development manager  will be available to support as required.

1. PAYMENT

The total remuneration of the gross consultant payment package is USD 1000 (One thousand dollar) with an estimated 5 day-works starting from November 2023 to December 2023. OIC will withhold the amount of tax on consultancy of 15% WHT based on the Cambodia tax law and pay to the Cambodian General Department of Taxation.

1. Competencies/ Experiences

The external consultant is expected to have:

• Have relevant education in International Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Research or Program management
• Proven experience using M&E frameworks and data analysis of a variety of data sources
• High written and visual communication skills in english
• Experience working with in the Cambodian disability or social services sector
• Proven history of completing quality consultancies in timely manner
• Understand Cambodian context, in particular rural and government systems

How to Apply

Interested candidates are requested to submit applications by 28th November 2023 Applications should consist of:

1. CV/Resume (maximum 3 pages);

2. Cover letter (maximum 1 page) – addressing competencies required;

3. A maximum 1-page summary outlining the proposed work plan including activity plan including dates for each activity/output. 

All applicants must submit their complete application in a single pdf file with items in the order listed above.

All applications should be sent to: hello@oiccambodia.org or by hard copy to our Phnom Penh Office with subject: External Consultant for designing process for data collection tools, monitoring and analyze collected data on communication and swallowing difficulties.

OIC Cambodia Office address:  #35B, St 26BT, Sangkat Boeung Tumpun2 Khan Meanchey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Phone: (+855) 12 405 195.

OIC Cambodia is a Speech Therapy professional development organization, this position is only open for people with disability, and strongly encourage women with disability to apply. We are also Child Protection based organization, we encouraging the candidate who used to work with children to apply.

To apply for the role, please send your application to email provided in the contact details with the subject: Executive Director, and with the following documents:

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Application Information:

Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis by a deadline of the closing date. Only shortlisted will be contacted. Submitted documents not returned.

Women and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply! OIC Cambodia is committed to protecting children’s rights. OIC reserves the right to conduct screening procedures to ensure a child safe environment. We committed to protecting the people we serve. We do not tolerate sexual misconduct within our organization embedded in child/vulnerable protection. Protection sexual harassment, exploitation abuse child/vulnerable protection fundamental our core value, including employment, our recruitment practices, and contract sign, as well pre-employment check.

We commit to protecting children’s rights. OIC Reserves the right to conduct screening procedures to ensure a child safe environment. We commit to protect the people we serve. We do not tolerate sexual misconduct within our organization embedded in child/vulnerable protection all we do. Protection sexual harassment, exploitation abuse child/vulnerable protection fundamental our core value, including employment, our recruitment practices, and contract sign, as well pre-employment checks. To find out more, please contact our Human resource team.