Curriculum Development Consultant – Advocacy & Accountability Course

Terms of Reference 

Position: Curriculum Developer – Advocacy & Accountability Course
Location: Remote
Duration: 28 Days
Reporting to: Program Manager
Organization: This Ability Trust

Background:

This Ability is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting disability-inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). This course will build skills in rights-based advocacy, civic engagement, and holding duty-bearers accountable, particularly through inclusive and community-led approaches.

Goal:

To promote inclusive and effective advocacy training by ensuring that the Advocacy and Accountability course is accessible, relevant, and responsive to the lived experiences and priorities of women with disabilities and civil society organizations (CSOs)

Objective:

To review and update the Advocacy and Accountability course content to ensure it is relevant, inclusive, and responsive to the unique needs, experiences, and priorities of women with disabilities and civil society organizations (CSOs)

Scope of Work:

1. Conduct a comprehensive review of the existing Advocacy and Accountability course to assess its current relevance, inclusivity, and responsiveness to the needs of women with disabilities and civil society organizations.
2. Consult with key stakeholders, including women with disabilities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), to gather insights, lived experiences, and feedback to inform content updates.
3. Revise course modules to incorporate inclusive language, intersectional perspectives, relevant case studies, and practical tools for disability-inclusive advocacy and accountability.
4. Ensure the content adheres to accessibility standards and is designed to accommodate diverse learning needs through multiple formats and universal design principles.
5. Ensure the curriculum is action-oriented, focusing on storytelling, lived experience, and local community challenges.
6. Develop a user-friendly facilitator guide.
7. Organize a validation session with key stakeholders to review revised content and integrate their feedback into the final version.
8. Prepare and submit a final report detailing the review process, changes made, stakeholder inputs, and recommendations for future updates or adaptations.

Deliverables:

• Content Review Report
• Report on focus group discussion findings
• Revised and Updated Course Materials
• Accessibility Compliance Checklist
• Validation and Feedback Report
• Final Report with Recommendations

Qualifications:

• Degree in Development Studies, Political Science, Human Rights, or a related field
• Post graduate qualification in the related field is an added advantage
• Proven 5 years’ experience in advocacy training curriculum design
• Knowledge of disability rights and inclusive civic participation
• Strong facilitation and writing skills

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit their CV, cover letter and a sample of similar curricula to consultant@this-ability.org by 14th Aug 2025. Please include a financial proposal outlining your consultancy fees.

This Ability Trust is an equal opportunity organization and encourages applications from persons with disabilities and those with experience in disability-inclusive and gender-responsive research.

Exclusion Clauses

• This Ability Trust has zero tolerance for corruption and fraud. You are required to go through and comply with the anti-bribery policy to get a better understanding of this and the other policies that the Trust’s operations focus on.

• This Ability Trust has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). You must prohibit SEA, implement preventative measures, report any SEA allegations to the Trust, take corrective action when SEA occurs and ensure victims of any age receive appropriate support. The Trust makes available annual sexual exploitation and abuse prevention and response training for all supervisors, managers, consultants and employees. You are required to go through and comply with the Safeguarding and Protection Policy.

• The Trust affirms its established policy of non-discrimination in employment and its commitment to affirmative action in being an equal opportunity employer, particularly in the employment of women with disabilities. 

• This Ability Trust reserves the right to offer comparable assignments to those qualified candidates that may not have been selected for this consultancy assignment which they applied for. These offers will be based on the needs of the organisation, appropriateness and relevance to the candidate’s educational backgrounds and work experience. Only those candidates in whose qualifications and experience the Trust has further interest will be contacted for subsequent interviews.