Instructional Designer

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

RefuSHE was established in 2008 as the first and only organization in Kenya devoted to protecting and empowering urban, unaccompanied, and separated refugee children and youth, especially girls, young women, and their children, living in Nairobi, Kenya. Our holistic model provides opportunities for refugee girls to access their human rights, experience economic success, build transferable skills, and become leaders in their own communities.

COVID-19 heightened the economic vulnerability of refugee women and girls. Moreover, the suspension of educational activities in 2020-2021 increased the likelihood that refugee young women and girls would drop out of school and become vulnerable to child labour, child marriage, and other forms of exploitation.

In response, RefuSHE has worked with partners to create a virtual learning platform tailored specifically to the needs of refugee women and girls in the community. Our goal, through an eLearning Platform is to provide vocational skills for income-generation, entrepreneurship skills to start or strengthen their business and self-employment initiatives, as well as offer mental health support.

We are continuously tailoring our content to suit our population of users to make the platform engaging and useful to Nairobi’s women refugee community. Our innovative e-learning and wellness platform will enable us to reach refugee women and girls in the community that are not currently served by RefuSHE with services to enhance their livelihoods and wellbeing

OBJECTIVES OF THE CONTENT MAPPING AND DESIGN

The overall objective of the assignment is to map out and design a variety of vocational micro enterprise skills in Nail Technology, Hair Dressing and Catering; into step-by-step manuals that can be used to create short videos that will be hosted on a Learning Management

System (LMS), that enables self-learning. These courses are meant to empower young refugee women running micro enterprise with low to minimal digital literacy; designed to be carried out through a series of modules delivered in a self-paced format with Kiswahili-English (Swanglish) as the main language of delivery.

The Instructional designer should avail supporting documents/links to show a track record of their experience and a quotation for their services.

SCOPE FOR THE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

• The Instructional Designer will work closely and coordinate with the ‘Subject Matter Expert’ who is a refugee woman running a micro enterprise and the RefuSHE team to understand the visualization and technical scope of the content material as well as the organizational context.
• Create manuals with defined business scenarios and environment of the different micro enterprises within Kenyan urban areas and intersperse with actual skills development manuals and case studies to enhance the learning experience as well as improve the interaction with users (i.e. Refugee women)
• Define the extent of the content that should be covered by different courses and create the course structure in which all the content is divided into modules, with relevant and specific learning objectives for each module.
• Define activities for each module which best support the learning goals. There should be a clear progression of complexity in the skills level from one module to another.
• Packaged content should be aligned with the overall discovery phase findings provided by the RefuSHE team and principles of adult learning approaches.
• The content should consider the development of creativity and innovation skills as well as entrepreneurship.
• Work with the Subject Matter Expert and RefuSHE team to understand the developed content and to instructionally design the content into storyboards to meet the agreed learning objectives

QUALIFICATIONS, SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND ADDITIONAL COMPETENCIES

Required Experience:

• Ability to contextualize different micro enterprise business environments in urban areas to create informative videos for refugee women looking to start or grow their businesses
• The consultant/firm must be qualified experts, with a demonstrated track record in developing high quality online learning modules in entrepreneurship and/or vocational skills
• References and examples of past work are required and should be included in the bid.
• Strong familiarity with the micro enterprise ecosystem in Nairobi is highly desirable
• Analytical, research and conceptual skills
• Sensitivity to the experience of refugees in Kenya and a willingness to listen to and learn from their experience as microentrepreneurs
• Ability to convert complex, broad topics into simple, easily digestible video content

DELIVERABLES

The final output by the Instructional Designer will be Nail Technology, Hairdressing and Catering manuals segmented into different modules to be used to create instructional videos

TIME FRAME

The proposed start date for this scope of work is 27th July 2022.