CONSULTANCY Opportunities in 'Street Children & Sexual Health' Project

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Dear All,

As our Sexual Health Programme for Street and Slum Children in India

is gradually expanding its reach and scope, there are two new

CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITIES in our project, each for a duration of six

months. Please see the information below.

POSITION 1.

Developer-designer of Intervention Modules (Games and other creative,

interactive Exercises) for groups of Teenage Street and Slum Children

Starting date: latest by August 1, 2007 (if possible somewhat earlier).

Job Description:

(Co-)Develop the Children's Activities Workbook: a series of 120

creative and interactive, `FUN' intervention activities on sexuality,

sexual health and life skills for small groups of teenage street and

slum children (non-literate!);

(Co-)Write the Workbook/Manual, in (almost-)ready-for-publication

quality;

Time Investment, Logistics & Remuneration:

This consultancy will be for the period August 2007 (or somewhat

earlier) to the end of January 2008 (six months), and requires a time

investment of three days a week continuously;

The consultancy may involve working from home, but requires working

in APSA Bangalore ( " Nammane " ) for at least one day per week (with the

other team members). Candidates therefore must be based in Bangalore

(or at maximum three hours travel from Bangalore by bus/train)

throughout the period of the consultancy;

The total remuneration will not exceed Rs. 1,02,000/-

(non-negotiable).

POSITION 2.

An experienced Writer of Training Manuals – to:

(co)write our NGO Staff Training Manual " Working on Sexuality,

Sexual Health and Life-Skills with teenage Street and Slum Children " , and

professionally edit the Children's Intervention Workbook

Starting date: October 1, 2007 (Note: August 1, if combined position

1 & 2).

Job Description:

(Co)Write the training modules for NGO field staff on: (teenage)

sexuality, sexual health, sexual rights, related life skills, and

working effectively with street and slum teenagers on these issues;

Professionally edit the Children's Intervention Activities Workbook

(a workbook with over 120 small-group exercises aimed at positive

behaviour change).

Time Investment, Logistics & Remuneration:

This consultancy will be for the period October 2007 to the end of

March 2008 (six months), and requires a time investment of four days

per week continuously;

This consultancy may involve a reasonable amount of working from

home (preferably using your own computer), but requires you to come to

APSA Bangalore ( " Nammane " ) at least once per two weeks for one day.

Candidates therefore must be based in Bangalore (or at maximum three

hours travel from Bangalore by bus/train) throughout the period of the

consultancy;

The total remuneration will not exceed Rs. 1,50,000/- (non-negotiable).

Note: the two consultancies can be combined, if the candidate has the

required qualities to effectively do both consultancies

simultaneously, and is willing to work fulltime on these tasks (=

five-and-half days / 44 hours per week) for the entire period August

2007 to end of March 2008. Remuneration: maximum Rs. 31,500/- per

month, depending on qualifications and experience (non-negotiable).

PLEASE DO CHECK THE LINK BELOW (copy into your browser) for FULL

DETAILS on the Qualifications and Experience required, and

INSTRUCTIONS on HOW TO APPLY:

http://www.streetkids-srh.org/show_news.php?id=36#read

For further information: email to jobs@...

With best regards,

Shadakshari.T.S.

Assistant Programme Manager.

APSA Bangalore

e-mail: <antriksha_nakshatra@...>