Consultant at World University Service of Canada

Overview

The SHULE Project’s beneficiary population includes refugee girls living in Dadaab and Kakuma Camps and surrounding host communities particularly those with special needs and over-aged learners particularly;

• Girls in upper primary (class 7 and 8) who are likely to drop out due to poor performance and/or are girls with special needs or over-aged girls who are not able to benefit from current educational resources.
• Girls, including girls with special needs and over-aged learners, in secondary school who have made the transition but need additional support and resources to complete their secondary education.

The aim of the assessment will be to identify learner specific learning strengths and needs, to determine whether or not a learner is eligible for special education services, and advice on the appropriate assistive device. The assessment process will be as follows:

• Identification: Tracing and gathering information from the many sources of background information on a learner such as partner/ school records, observation, parent intakes, and teacher reports
• Assessment: Processing and understanding of patterns in a learner’s educational, social, developmental, environmental, medical, and emotional history
• Evaluation: Evaluation of the assessment findings determine the presence of a special need and category of need.
• Recommendation: The recommendations concerning assistive device to be purchased, procurement process and educational placement.
• Documentation: Compilation of a report to document the process, findings, recommendation and way forward in implementing the SNE component.
• The purpose of this consultancy assignment is to support the SNE learners’ assessment process that will take place in May-June 2019.
• Main Duties and Responsibilities
• The main duties and responsibilities of the Consultant during the assignment will be:
• Prepare for the assessment process including discussions with partners, training, assessment, procurement of devices.
• Generate a report following completion of the assessment process. The consultant will rapporteur and take daily notes and observations that contributed to the final report.
• Providing feedback, recommendations and supporting revisions to implementing the SNE component. The consultant will make recommendations based on the field experience which will be captured in the final report.
• Support follow-ups in the field. Being an SNE specialist the consultant will be regularly involved in monitoring and evaluation of the project through follow up and technical support to WUSC/ WIK whenever required.

Key Deliverables

The key deliverables by the Consultant during the assignment are:

• To train project team on identification, assessment and delivery of the SNE component using the Washington Group components.
• To screen and identify learners with special needs.
• To determine eligibility of the learner to the project and diagnose the specific nature of the learners’ problems or disability
• To provide detailed information so that an assistive device can be purchased and an individualized education plan developed to integrate the learners.
• To provide a detailed report following completion of the assessment process in Kakuma and Dadaab.

Scope of Work and Expected Deliverables

In consultation with the WUSC team, the consultant will support and lead the assessment process for SNE learners in Kakuma and Dadaab. Specifically, the consultant is responsible for the following:

Dadaab

May- June

Kakuma

May- June