Counselling Expert Consultant

The Counselling Expert Consultant will develop and implement a comprehensive training model and tools for Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) counselling in the Italian migration context. The role involves designing training curricula, defining professional profiles, developing assessment tools, and producing training manuals to support AVRR counsellors across Italy.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a comprehensive methodological and training document for professional AVRR counsellors in the Italian context.
• Define the professional profile of the AVRR counsellor through identification of technical, transversal and operational competencies.
• Develop pre- and post-training assessment tools for certification of counsellors' competencies.
• Develop the AVRR Counselling Training Manual and complementary training materials and operational tools.
• Coordinate and facilitate the testing and validation phase of the training model with selected counsellors and produce a testing report including methodology, results, feedback, challenges and recommendations.
• Collect feedback from participants and stakeholders, analyze results and revise training model and materials for final validation.

Requirements

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline, such as Political Sciences, Public Policy, Development Studies, Education and training.
• Sound experience in research and education, with regard to the areas of Adult Learning and capacity building, with focus on the context of migration, including return and reintegration, displacement, and emergency contexts and/or on counselling.
• Strong research and technical background.
• Previous experience in drafting manuals/in-person and/or online training packages for adults and professionals is an asset.
• Synthesis skills.
• Fluency in Italian (oral and written) is required.
• Intermediate proficiency in English (oral and written) is required.
• Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments.

Skills

• Adult Learning
• Capacity Building
• Migration Counselling
• Return and Reintegration
• Displacement Contexts
• Emergency Context Experience
• Research
• Technical Writing
• Training Package Development
• Manual Drafting
• Curriculum Design
• Assessment Tools Development
• Synthesis Skills
• Italian Language Proficiency
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

Italian, English