Social and Behavior Change Communication Technical Advisor

JOB DETAILS: TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) Consultancy: Social and Behavior Change Communication Technical Advisor Background and Rationale The SAFE-EMPLOYMENT Program is jointly implemented by the Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation as part of the Young Africa Works (YAW) Uganda strategy. The program aims to ensure that young people, especially young women, refugees, and persons with disabilities, access education, skilling, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities in safe, inclusive, and dignified environments. Findings from the Partner Safeguarding Assessment (November 2025) reveal that while most YAW partners demonstrate baseline commitment to safeguarding, significant systemic, behavioral, and cultural gaps persist across all sectors (Agrifoods, Workforce Development, MSMEs, and the Digital Economy). Some of the gaps include outdated or incomplete safeguarding policies, inconsistent training and awareness, weak reporting and case management systems, limited participant feedback mechanisms, uneven third-party oversight, and safeguarding practices that are not fully embedded in organisational culture, particularly within private and for profit entities. Critically, the assessment highlights that safeguarding risks are not driven by policy gaps alone, but by entrenched social and gender norms, power imbalances (abuse of power), low safeguarding literacy, silence around abuse, weak accountability cultures, and limited voice and agency among young people to speak out and seek redress. These risks manifest differently across sectors—for example, unsafe work placements with artisans, weak digital safety awareness, poor vetting of local agents, inadequate protection during apprenticeships, limited guidance for safe programming in MSMEs and incubators, among others. In response, SAFE EMPLOYMENT identifies Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) as a core pillar for addressing these challenges. SBCC is essential to complement policy and system strengthening by transforming norms, attitudes, behaviors, and everyday practices that enable or tolerate harm, including abuse, exploitation and harassment in the programs. IIDC therefore seeks an experienced SBCC Consultant to design a Safeguarding SBCC Strategy that is explicitly informed by the Partner Safeguarding Assessment findings and tailored to the realities of Young Africa Works sectors, with a strong focus on private sector actors, training institutions, and work placement environments. Purpose of the Assignment The purpose of this consultancy is to develop a context-specific, evidence-based Safeguarding SBCC Strategy that responds directly to the safeguarding risks, behavioral drivers, and system weaknesses identified in the Partner Safeguarding Assessment. The strategy will guide YAW partners to: Address harmful social and gender norms, power dynamics (abuse of power), and silence that perpetuate abuse and exploitation; Strengthen safeguarding culture, accountability, and duty of care within institutions and workplaces; Increase young people’s awareness, agency, and confidence to report concerns and seek