Online Curriculum Design Consultant: Building Local Protection Networks

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)

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.

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.

• 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 checks, end‑of‑module quizzes, a final assessment, and criteria for course completion or certification.
• Present the draft curriculum in a validation session with the UCP Academy Manager and other relevant stakeholders, and integrate consolidated feedback into the final version.

• Inception note: methodology, consultation plan, annotated curriculum outline.
• Consultation report: key findings from NP field teams and academic partners.
• Draft curriculum package with modules, content, exercises and assessments.
• Validation session and consolidated feedback matrix.
• Final curriculum package plus digitalisation guidance note and resource list.

• Advanced university degree in peace and conflict studies, international relations, international humanitarian law, education or a related field.
• Demonstrated, substantive knowledge of unarmed civilian protection, including…