CLEAR Global is hiring a
Location: home-based, available during EAT timezone working hours
Travel: none
Reporting to: Program Coordinator
Timeframe: March-April 2024 (up to 4 FTE days total)
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The role
CLEAR Global is looking for a trainer to input into and adapt the existing content and deliver language-related training sessions to partner staff and contacts based in Somalia.
The training to be delivered:
Two trainings to input into and advise on adapting the content for:
Plain language training
Plain language is critical for clear communication in humanitarian responses and development work. Our training sessions improve people’s knowledge, skills, and advocacy in plain language. CLEAR Global offers training modules that match participants’ learning needs.
The existing CLEAR Global plain language training is a 100-minute remote course focused on introducing participants to basic plain language principles and editing tips across sectors. The training is designed to be delivered using participatory and experiential learning methods, to a group of up to 20 participants.
The role includes adapting the existing standard content to include examples from the partner and the Somalia context, as well as reviewing the Maahatiri Somali translation of the training from a subject matter expert perspective. The training should be delivered in Maahatiri Somali.
Language awareness training
This course builds participants' understanding and skills to address language as a critical factor of vulnerability. The training covers language in humanitarian communication, community engagement, sensitization, and feedback.
The existing CLEAR Global language awareness training is a 100-minute remote course. The training is participatory and designed to build on participants’ existing skills and knowledge. The training is delivered to a group of up to 20 participants.
The role includes adapting the existing content to include examples from the partner and the Somalia context. The training will be delivered in English. There may be some possibility for the selected candidate to deliver the training - this will be discussed and agreed upon in a second phase.
Humanitarian interpreter training
This course is designed to support staff and volunteers involved in multilingual communication in a humanitarian context. It will increase their ability to provide safe, accurate, ethical, and sensitive interpretation services in humanitarian contexts.
The existing CLEAR Global humanitarian interpreter training is a 6-hour course, delivered over 2 sessions. The training is participatory and designed to build on participants’ existing skills and knowledge. The training is delivered to a group of up to 20 participants.
The role includes adapting the existing content to include examples from the partner and the Somalia context. The training will be delivered in English. There may be some possibility for the selected candidate to deliver the training - this will be discussed and agreed upon in a second phase.
The task
Audience
Plain language training
Basic plain language training is aimed at people who:
Language awareness training
Language awareness training is for any community-facing staff or volunteers, including program delivery staff and those who need to deliver clear, accurate information, or collect data.
Humanitarian interpreter training
This training is for people working as interpreters or providing interpretation services in the humanitarian sector who have had no formal training. It is suitable both for staff and volunteers who regularly interpret and those who interpret only in one-off situations.
Deliverables
Qualifications and experience required
How to apply
CLEAR Global will accept offers from individual consultants and consulting firms.
To apply for this consultancy please send the following documents:
Please upload the technical and financial offer as one document under “cover letter” and present the CV(s) of the expert(s) proposed in one document under “CV”.
About CLEAR Global
CLEAR Global helps people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 100,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.
Core values
CLEAR Global employees and volunteers passionately believe in the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework: