TERMS OF REFERENCE

CURRICULUM DESIGNER CONULSTANCY FOR

HOSTAGE INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING COURSES

UNICEF’s recent experience in managing the abduction of a staff member has shown the need for an updated approach to Hostage Incident Management (HIM) to ensure UNICEF remains abreast of new developments and teaching in this field of expertise. As a result of this abduction UNICEF has responded by reviewing the current practices and procedures and has employed two strategic consultants to advise and develop a handbook on how to expand on existing UN guidelines.

An expert in curriculum design and instructional methodologies will support the consultants indeveloping the handbook into training courses.These training courses are aimed at the required competencies of UN Security Management System (UNSMS)staff that will plan and respond to future events. It is envisaged that two courses and a supporting workshop are required to impart this knowledge at differing competency levelsfor different UNSMSaudiences.

The courses will be developed in close coordination with the Training Development Section (TDS) of UN Department of Safety & Security (UNDSS), under the approving authority of the UN Inter-Agency Security Training Working Group, to ensure integration with current policies, guidelines and training programmes. It is highly desirable that the consultants have a working knowledge and preferably experience in security or law enforcement and the appropriate training methodologies employed in a learning environment comparable and compatible to the learning policy and practices in the UN Security Management System (UNSMS).

The consultant will be required to travel at least twice to UNICEF HQ in New York to work at the initial and later developmental stages of the course in close consultation with UNDSS-TDS.There will also be the need to attend a three day strategic planning meeting, most likely to be held in Amman, Jordan in early April 2014.

Deliverables:

  • An analysis of the required competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in UN Hostage Incident Management cases/incidents, including an analysis of the current roles and responsibilities in the UN Policy and Guidelines.
  • Course outcome that notes the knowledge, skills, and attributes which the course will address.
  • Course learning objectives, modules and lesson plans (in compliance with the R-O-P-E-S model), including content description, delivery and evaluation methodology.
  • A planning document indicating required resources, including human resources, knowledge and quality assurance, finances, information security aspects, prospected venues and course lifetime aspects.
  • An instructors’ guidebook that details all aspects of the course to ensure a standardised delivery across time and personnel.
  • A course syllabus and advance sheet (for participants) to notify participants of course expectations.
  • Pre-course training objectives including reading and remote exercises/assessments to be achieved prior to attendance on the course, using the UNDSS Learning Management System.
  • A course agenda (for participants) to give participants a daily course sequence.
  • Participant Materials (as required to comply with the course objectives):
  • Readings and reference guide
  • Handbook,
  • Performance/Job Aids,
  • Practical Exercise information guides, and
  • Other.
  • A course agenda (for instructors) to give instructors a clear understanding of daily course sequence and to aid in daily preparation.
  • Course assessments---either formal or informal---that measure and document student progress, in compliance with UNDSS evaluation standards and methodologies.
  • A program/course evaluation system to enable participants and instructors to give feedback that will assist in the revision and betterment of the course.

End Product: Three training packages that provide UNICEF and the UNSMS with a modernized approach to training in planning, response and recovery of future hostage incidents.