Online Curriculum Design Consultant: Building Local Protection Networks

Terms of Reference Consultancy: Development of an Online Training Curriculum on Building Local Protection Networks Position title: Online Curriculum Design Consultant: Building Local Protection Networks Organisation Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP): Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) Academy Reporting line: UCP Academy Manager Duty station: Remote (home-based); no travel foreseen Contract period:  1 November 2026 – 31 December 2026 Level of effort: 20 working days within the contract period Maximum budget: CHF 8,000 (all-inclusive, equivalent to CHF 400 per working day) 1. Background Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is an international civilian protection organisation that works alongside local communities to prevent violence and build sustainable peace through unarmed civilian protection (UCP). Building and accompanying local protection networks is one of the core methodologies of NP field operations worldwide. NP’s UCP Academy is the organisation’s learning platform, designed to make UCP practice accessible to practitioners, communities, civil society organisations, policymakers and academics. NP is expanding the Academy’s course catalogue and seeks a consultant to design a training curriculum on building local protection networks, grounded in NP field practice and current UCP scholarship. The curriculum will subsequently be digitalised and hosted as an online course on the UCP Academy website. The consultant is responsible for producing a ‘digitalisation-ready’ curriculum, not for the technical build. 2. Objective To develop a complete, practice-based and pedagogically sound training curriculum on building local protection networks, ready for digitalisation and delivery through the UCP Academy platform. 3. Scope of work Under the direct supervision of the UCP Academy Manager, the consultant will: Conduct a short inception review of existing NP internal guidance, training materials, field tools and relevant external literature on local protection networks and community-based protection. Consult NP field teams (through remote interviews and/or focus group discussions across a representative sample of country programmes) to capture field-tested practice, tools, case examples and lessons learned and to validate the draft curriculum content. Engage with academic partners, in particular the Creating Safer Space initiative at Aberystwyth University, to ensure the curriculum reflects current UCP research, terminology and evidence and to identify opportunities for reciprocal use of research outputs. Design the curriculum architecture: learning pathway, modules and sessions, learning objectives, estimated learning time, sequencing and prerequisites. Develop module content: session outlines, facilitator/narration scripts or content notes, case studies drawn from NP field experience, exercises and reflection prompts, and a suggested reading and resource list. Design assessment and learner engagement elements: knowledge…