Terms of Reference: Curriculum Review & Digital Learning Strategy Consultant

Terms of Reference

Curriculum Review & Digital Learning Strategy Consultant

Designing a tiered, technology-enabled training system that strengthens WasteAid’s programmes and scales impact through partners.

Closing date for applications: 9 August 2026 N.B. This is a re-advertisement.

Please do not reapply if applied previously.

Reporting to: Head of Strategy & Impact

Location: Home-based (South Africa)

Timeframe: Circa 1 month, starting early September 2026

The Role

As outlined in its 2024-2026 Strategy, WasteAid is seeking to scale up its flagship programmes – the Wastepreneur Programme, First Step Waste Systems and Circular Economy Networks – to further its impact in reducing waste pollution, creating livelihood opportunities and improving public health through sustainable waste management practices. In 2025 WasteAid undertook a process to design its scaling strategy, which highlighted a number of areas of work. One of these was to undertake a review of our technical training curricula and the potential for a revised approach whereby training is more tiered and leverages technology to enable a greater reach and impact. We are seeking a technical training consultant to help us undertake this.

The consultant will work with the WasteAid team to assess map and assess WasteAid’s existing benchmarking, training and mentoring, identify gaps and opportunities (including tiering and digitisation) and shape a roadmap for innovation and scale to enable us to reach a significantly larger number of participants through our training-based work.

The consultant should have prior experience of working in international development; training design, delivery and evaluation; scaling strategies; and mainstreaming of gender equality, disability and social inclusion. Preferably, they will have worked on projects related to waste recycling, pollution reduction and livelihood development, and that are GEDSI empowering.

Objective

To review and strengthen WasteAid’s training component of its programmes – Wastepreneur, eWastepreneur, and First Step Resource Management – and design a tiered, scalable, technology-enabled training model that increases reach, consistency, and impact across countries of operation.  

How to apply Reference: Curriculum Consultant / YOUR NAME The following documents should be sent to: recruitment@wasteaid.org

• Cover letter of maximum 2 pages detailing your suitability for the assignment, how you correspond to the required skills and experience, your approach to delivering the consultancy and motivation. Please provide specific examples rather than generic statements of capability.

• Provide a 1-2 page case study of a comparable consultancy previously delivered, covering

a) client/context and geography;

b) assignment objective;

c) applicant’s specific role;

d) approach taken;

e) outputs produced, with images / hyperlinks where possible;

f) evidence of uptake, impact, or learning; g) one challenge encountered and how it was addressed.

• Detailed work plan 2-3 pages. The work plan should not repeat the TOR but should show how the applicant would organise and deliver the assignment in practice.

• CV of maximum 3 pages, which should highlight relevant experience, countries worked in, technical skills, examples of training, curriculum, digital learning, or scaling work.

• Day rate in GBP; availability; 3 references.

Note that pages in excess of the maximum will not be assessed. Generic applications that do not provide clear evidence of comparable experience will not be scored highly.

As a small organisation we are only able to contact short-listed applicants. Short-listed candidates will be invited to interview.

WasteAid is committed to diversity, inclusion and localisation. We strongly encourage applications from qualified women, people with disabilities, and professionals from low‑ and middle‑income countries who bring lived experience of the contexts where we work.