REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL -: Training Curriculum Development

at  Action for Healthy Communities

PREAMBLE:

This RFP outlines the terms of reference, the scope of work and agreement terms to engage a consultant in a project to accomplish the following deliverables:

• Development of a comprehensive Training Curriculum including resource materials and related tools for interactive learning and practice. This Training Curriculum is to facilitate a new AHC series of Intercultural Competency Training Program, designed to support Alberta Employers, in the process of hiring, retaining, and advancing newcomers in jobs and careers that leads to successful integration into Alberta’s workforce.

Action for Healthy Communities (AHC) is seeking to engage a consultant to develop an interactive experiential focused curriculum including informative resource materials and related tools that will be used in delivering AHC’s new series of employer focused training designed to support the integration of low to highly skilled newcomers into the workforce.
This new AHC training series targets to foster effective intercultural knowledge and skills enhancements and DEI through the lens of both employers and newcomers navigating workforce integration needs. Designed for support for employers in the construction, hospitality, and healthcare industries, this training series will be tailored primarily to equip employers with tools to implement effective hiring, retention, and job growth practices to continue to advance DEI within the workplace, to support successful integration of newcomers into the workforce In complement to the employer training, intercultural knowledge and skills enhancements will also be sought to supplement existing job readiness training AHC offers to newcomer job seekers to prepare them for job placements in these identified industries.

PROJECT DETAILS:

• Summary:
  Action for Healthy Communities (AHC) is initiating an Intercultural Competency Training that is part of a project designed to pilot a novel work placement model that promotes the placement of 3+ newcomer job seekers with varying English language skills, hired by an employer in roles that the team can undertake job duties as a unit. This team will be supported to conduct their regular job duties by a team member in the role of a team lead/mentor who possesses an advanced level of English language skills compared to the rest of the team members, to facilitate a supportive onboarding and on-the-job training for newcomers accessing their first-time jobs in Canada. The main goal of this pilot novel work placement model is to enhance the integration and employment of newcomers in the select Alberta industries of construction, hospitality, and healthcare.
  AHC is seeking to engage a curriculum development consultant to work through the afore described collaborative approach with the identified key stakeholders to develop an interactive experiential focused curriculum including informative resource materials and tools that will be used in the delivery of the new series of the AHC Intercultural Competency Training.
  Based on our experience supporting job placements for newcomer to Canada, the identified three sectors (construction, hospitality, healthcare) often under-employ newcomers, particularly ones, who are looking to access their first-time jobs in Canada in these sectors.
  Among the key reasons we have discerned from consultations with newcomer jobseekers as well as some employers, newcomers under employment in these sectors is not necessarily for gaps in technical skills but rather largely due to cultural misunderstandings/misinterpretations of workplace interactions between newcomer workers and peers and/or supervisors/team leads (such as use of jargons, depiction of roles etc. that can be derogatory and/or demeaning for certain groups), and these incidents often are not adequately and appropriately addressed for several reasons, to help drive change/improvement in the workplaces affected. Likewise, newcomers under-employment in these identified sectors has largely also been due to communication barriers due to job seekers’ English language barriers, and employers’ traditional recruitment and retention practices that have not adjusted to account for the need for effective strategies to foster workplace environments that supports healthy and positive interactions that support newcomers feel safe and welcome in these workplaces.
  This new AHC training program seeks to support employers seize the opportunity to build highly advanced workplaces that leverages the global talent newcomers bring to their new jobs in Canada.
  The training series will target to foster knowledge and skills to facilitate building welcoming and culturally diverse and inclusive workplaces; using advanced means to understand and tap into newcomer talents, experience, as resource that employers can leverage to bring the cultural awareness employers need, to contribute towards their goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their workplace environments.

Ultimately, this training is meant to be another tool for interested employers to become the employer leaders in their sector, innovating in addressing labour shortages in these respective target industries.

• Curriculum Development: Objectives, Approach, Goals & Expected Scope Outcomes

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS:

Please provide detailed information to accomplish the project scope outlined in the sections above.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SELECTION CRITERIA:

The following criteria will form the basis upon which AHC will evaluate proposals. All mandatory criteria must be met and include the above requirements.

Proposals meeting mandatory requirements will be evaluated with the following criteria:

• The proposed solution meets the needs and criteria set forth in the RFP.
• Experience and success in similar projects.
• Creativity and innovation in proposed curriculum.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the need for such training in the stated specific industries and identifying the issue therein to incorporate in the proposed curriculum.
• Ability to develop an all-encompassing curriculum, following best practices.
• Cost-effectiveness of the proposal.
• References and testimonials from past clients
• The proposal is presented clearly, logically, well-organized and has the appropriate information the RFP calls for, and
• The proposal must show a clear timeline for the project delivery.

Please refer the Job description for details