Company Profile

Right To Play is a global organisation that protects, educates and empowers children to rise above adversity using the power of play. By harnessing play, one of the most powerful and fundamental forces in a child’s life, we helped 2.3 million children last year to stay in school and out of work, to prevent life-threatening diseases and to stay safe from exploitation and abuse. We are the only global development organization focused exclusively on using play to transform the lives of children and youth impacted by poverty, war, disease and inequality.  
Established in 2000, Right To Play is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has operations in 22 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.   

With a shared passion for our mission, our Culture Code guides how we act and interact based on five core pillars:  

• Accept Everyone – Be intentional about inclusion  
• Make Things Happen – Seek opportunities to lead and innovate  
• Display Courage – Act with integrity  
• Demonstrate Care – Look after yourself and one another   
• Be Playful – Have fun at work    

Please visit our website to learn more about who we are and what we do and watch this video to find out about the five pillars of our Culture Code.   

Job Description

Terms of Reference

Mentorship Resource Development for the Sexual Health and Reproductive Education Program

1. Increasing the use of gender-responsive SRHR information and services.
2. Improving the delivery of gender-responsive services to address adolescent SRHR needs; and
3. Enhancing social action by key stakeholders to advocate for adolescent-friendly, gender- responsive SRHR services and policies.

• • Develop an inception report of the desk review process and outline the methodology and conceptual framework used.
• • Participate in a meeting with Global Programs Department and Global Program Partnerships to gather ideas collectively on concrete content and activities that should be included in the global mentorship toolkit.
• • Conduct a desk review of baseline reports, MOH and MOE resources, and other relevant publications to understand the views of adolescents and various stakeholders in the program implementation areas.
• • Collection and gap analysis of resources, manuals and toolkits sourced from reputable organizations working in the fields of adolescent sexual and reproductive health
• • Facilitate workshops with adolescents and youths, CBOs, CSOs, and NGOs focused on SRHR to gather ideas collectively on concrete content and activities that should be included in the Mentorship Resource.
• • Develop a draft mentorship toolkit in English incorporating gender-responsive play-based learning based on all available resources, toolkits, manuals, and resources to provide adolescent girls and boys with comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and life skills education.
• • Illustrate the games, i.e. a diagram/illustration that shows how to set up/do the activity and develop diagrams needed for SRH concepts that could not be found from external sources.
• • Submit the draft Mentorship Resource to RTP for review and make revisions based on feedback
• • Test the draft toolkit in validation workshops with RTP staff, relevant stakeholders and adolescents to provide feedback on the draft.
• • Revise the toolkit based on feedback from the validation workshops and submit it to RTP HQ for final review.
• • Discuss the final draft with Global Programs Department in RTP HQ to endorse the final draft.
• • Make final edits and submit the final toolkit.
• • Be responsible for incorporating an M&E approach in the module design in consultation with RTP
• • Train SHARE program staff in HQ and the three countries using the final version of the Mentorship Resource
• • To make general recommendations on contextualization and adaptation

• • The development of the Mentorship Resource will be informed by rights-based sexuality education, Right To Play’s play-based methodology, and the needs at the country level as articulated by adolescents, local organizations, country teams, and other relevant stakeholders. The final products should be fully referenced, with content linked to evidence.
• • All material shall be produced in English and should be simple in expression (jargon free) for later translation. The consultants will submit an electronic version of the Mentorship Resource package in Word by the agreed deadline to enable copy editing, design and formatting work.
• • The consultant(s) will lead the validation of the resource with travel to each pilot country as COVID-19 safety and security allow.
• • Right To Play will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the exercise in partnership with relevant Right To Play country offices. The consultant(s) will keep the organization up to date throughout the project delivery and agree on changes to the methodology where appropriate.
• • The consultants are requested to propose their methodology and/or approach for how they will complete all the deliverables.
• All material developed for this consultancy must be gender, age and ability sensitive, and child participatory through play-based methods.

1. Inception report of the desk review process and outline of methodology and conceptual framework
2. Report of the workshops with adolescents and youths, CBOs, CSOs, and NGOs on content generation for the Resource
3. Draft Mentorship Resource appropriate for the 10-19 age group for review. The resource includes
   1. Standardized curriculum for 10-14 and 15-19 age groups
   2. Mentors training guide
   3. Mentorship sessions facilitation guide
4. Games and plays used by mentors to facilitate program sessions
5. Report on the validation workshops, including the feedback and recommendations
6. Final Mentorship Resource and source files of all diagrams created
7. At least one-day training workshop with SHARE program staff in HQ and the three countries on the final SRHR Adolescents toolkit.

Required Skills or Experience

• Advanced degree preferably in education, public health, behavioural science, social sciences, or related field
• Minimum ten years of increasingly responsible professional experience in working in adolescents and youth programming, of which five years related to SRHR and Life Skills
• In-depth knowledge of informal education issues and challenges, as well as of youth issues, particularly in low and middle-income countries
• Proven experience in developing SRHR/GBV/Life Skills toolkits/manuals/curricula and training on these topics; sample work to be provided with the application stating clearly what the role of each of the consultants was in that process
• Demonstrated ability to integrated gender, age and inclusion considerations in material design
• Proven experience in designing storyboards and conceptualizing interactive and youth-friendly toolkits/curricula; Demonstrated capacity for creative, adolescent and youth-friendly thinking and working with adolescents and youth, both male and female
• Experience in play-based learning and gender-transformative programming approaches is desired
• Excellent writing/reporting skills
• Must be able to work in a multidisciplinary team and multicultural environment
• Must be committed to respecting deadlines of delivery outputs within the agreed time frame