Public Awareness, Consumer Awareness & De-Stigmatization Campaign for the Fair Recycling Project Consultancy at Danish Refugee Council

Roles and responsibilities of the consultant

The consultant is expected to design a public awareness, consumer awareness and de-stigmatization campaign for the Fair Recycling Project to the required standards. They will be expected to lead in the day-to-day management of this consultancy exercise activities, including coordinating field level data collection and engagement, analysis, design and report write up. The consultant is expected to regularly consult and inform consortium partners.

The general responsibilities are:

• Review of program documents and preparation of inception report and data collection tools for review and feedback
• Review of existing secondary literature to inform the development of conceptual framework, campaign material and data collection tools
• Develop the data collection schedule, campaign material dummies/prototypes and select respondents to participate in interviews
• Select and Lead training of data enumerators/designers
• Conduct data collection and or prototypes development
• Perform data quality checks to ensure accuracy, validity and integrity of data collected
• Conduct data cleaning, processing and analysis
• Prepare and submit a draft report and other products for review and feedback
• Validate findings with DRC and project partners i.e., preliminary Presentation of Report
• Submit final report and annexes

Roles and Responsibilities for DRC and project partners

• Provide the required project information to the consultant, these include project proposals and log frames and any type of research already performed on the target groups
• Provide technical review of inception reports and (data collection) tools and quantitative data formats
• Approval of inception reports, tools, quantitative data formats and data collection schedule
• Mobilization of relevant community level stakeholders to participate in interviews
• Participation in the data collection as informants where applicable
• Technical review and providing comments on draft report
• Mobilization of stakeholders to participate in validation workshop
• Approval of final report and annexes

Working arrangements

Reporting

The consultancy firm will be reporting to the Project Manager, coordinating closely with the Project Officer -Advocacy.

Duration

The engagement will be for 30 working days.

Facilities & Inputs by the Project Team

The Project Team will share available project data and information, and make required introductions to other relevant organizations staff/teams.

Payments

Payments will be carried out on three instalments of 30% , 30% and 40% payments based on deliverables of satisfactory quality to the Consortium partners.

Selection Criteria and Minimum Requirements

The firm is expected to meet or exceed the following requirements:

• Experience in consulting / advising on Advocacy and corporate communications, preferably including the public sector in Kenya;
• Proven track record of designing and planning advocacy and creative communications campaigns, preferably in the context of public services/environmental protection/behaviour change;
• Prior exposure to the waste management/sanitation/public-health sectors strongly preferred;
• Proven experience translating core messages into effective products across multiple mediums (e.g. graphic design for billboards/fliers/posters; audio- and video-production capacity; event organization etc.);
• Prior experience in Humanitarian sector and conflict sensitive/ child labour areas advocacy and communications context;
• Ability to operate fluently in English, and local languages;
• Key personnel shall include the following specializations:
  • Team Leader: Experienced advocacy and communications professional with at least 10 years of work experience, preferably including in Urban areas and with public service providers; the team leader will be responsible for coordinating the team, communications with the project manager and the project team, and the overall direction, quality and timeliness of all outputs;
  • Socio-Cultural Specialist / Anthropologist: This specialist will ensure that messages and graphic elements of the public awareness campaign are framed in a manner that is effective and appropriate in the local cultural context. The specialist must have a proven track-record of work in Nairobi and knowledge of local language dynamics(sheng) prior experience in the waste management/Environment public health sector would be an asset;
  • Humanitarian Sector / Protection / Gender Specialist: This specialist will help refine messaging and ensure that final content is focused on relevant plastic waste picking/refugee/ people of concern priorities, and communicates these clearly and accurately (e.g. best-practice, locally appropriate advice on waste management);
  • Graphic Designer: Experienced graphic designer with background in advertisement and keen sense of how to communicate core messages effectively through images and graphic design;
  • Video/Audio Editor and Animator: Experienced video/audio editor, preferably with ability to implement animations (e.g. in Adobe After Effects / Animator);