Overview
The role involves designing and piloting an integrated parenting support programme within primary health care and pre-primary education facilities. The consultant will develop training materials, conduct training of trainers, pilot parent education sessions, and provide recommendations for scaling up the programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Review relevant UNICEF ECD, parenting, and child development guidances and assess the existing parenting support model within primary health care (PHC) and selected preschool education (kindergarten) services.
- Design a comprehensive five group-based parenting sessions’ training package for PHC providers and pre-primary education facilities, including a facilitation guide, parent education modules, practical tools, and monitoring instruments in Turkmen and Russian languages.
- Deliver a Training of Trainers (ToT) for approximately 25 national and subnational health professionals and 15 methodologists from pre-primary education facilities using participatory adult learning methodologies.
- Test the parenting support sessions through selected PHC and pre-school (kindergarten) facilities and refine the training package in Turkmen and Russian languages based on feedback and lessons learned.
- Develop supportive supervision and monitoring tools to ensure quality implementation and measure participant engagement and learning.
- Prepare a final facilitation package in Turkmen and Russian languages, implementation and scale-up plan, and recommendations for institutionalizing the programme within the national health system.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in early childhood development (ECD), parenting programmes, maternal and child health, health promotion, social and behaviour change (SBC), education, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience in designing competency-based training packages, facilitation guides, curricula, and learning materials for adult learners.
- Proven experience delivering Training of Trainers (ToT) and facilitating participatory training for health professionals, educators, or other frontline service providers.
- Experience developing monitoring and evaluation tools, documenting lessons learned, and incorporating feedback into programme improvement.
- Experience working with government institutions and multi-sectoral partners; previous collaboration with UN agencies or other international organizations is an asset.
Qualifications
Public health, medicine, psychology, education, social work, social sciences, early childhood development, or another relevant field.
