The awarded consultant shall perform the following tasks:

1. Attend the preliminary training workshop organised by the Project Coordinator in Islamabad.

2. Support to the Project Coordinator during the preparatory research for the awareness campaign by providing useful information and retrieving references on the basis of the Project Coordinator’s requests.

3. Meet the appointed communication agency at least once every 2 weeks to check work progress and send a brief report to the Project Coordinator with updates.

4. Meet the appointed subcontractor responsible for managing the campaign’s community events at least once every 2 weeks to check work progress and send a brief report to the Project Coordinator with updates.

5. Remotely monitor the planning and implementation of the community events by the appointed subcontractors.

6. Participate as an observer in the campaign test sessions organised by the local communication agency.

7. Submit a brief report after each campaign test session to the Project Coordinator including a description of the composition of the test groups, description of how, when and where the tests were conducted within 7 calendar days from each test.

8. Support the local communication agency in administering the pre and post evaluation questionnaires to the participants in the test groups. Ensure that all participants fill in the questionnaires. 

9. Attend at least 50% of the community events (3 in each region, 15 total).

10. Send a report after each community event within 7 calendar days from each event.

11. Provide public presentations of the project including to the media upon request of the Project Coordinator.

12. Inform the Project Coordinator about all communications with local suppliers/subcontractors, especially in the event of changes to the agreed work plan. This is also a condition for the termination of the contract.

13. Submit copies of invoices related to payments of this contract.

14. After completion of the assignment, send a statement to the Project Coordinator confirming that all required tasks have been completed.

Deliverables

The awarded consultant shall provide the following documents by email and using an online document storage (Drive):

• D1: list of relevant references for the preparatory research with links;

• D2: n. 28 brief monitoring reports (one every two weeks) on the activity of the appointed communication agency covering the duration of the campaign and the two months before (period from 01/12/2023 to 31/01/2025);

• D3: n. 28 brief monitoring reports (one every two weeks) on the activity of the appointed subcontractor responsible for managing the community events (period from 01/12/2023 to 31/01/2025);

• D4: report of campaign test sessions (one for each test session);

• D5: n.30 reports of the community events;

• D5: statement of completion of the assignment confirming that all required tasks have been completed.

Time frame

The deadline for submission of bids is 21/11/2023. Quotations shall be submitted to [email protected]. Candidates whose applications score 48/80 or higher will be invited for interviews and after that will be assigned a final score. Given the time limitations, interviews will be conducted even before the deadline in order to speed up the recruitment process; however, all candidates who will submit their applications by the given deadline will be duly evaluated and no preference will be given to the candidates who submit earlier.

Candidates will be notified of the results of the selection process by 22/11/2023 at the latest. It is expected that  before starting the assignment, the consultant has to attend a preliminary training workshop provided by the Project Coordinator. Participation in the preliminary training workshop is mandatory. The assignment starts after the signing of the contract by both parties and lasts until the 31st of March 2025.