Street Mykhaila Hrushevskoho, 3,
Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine
Date: August 17, 2026
Tender No.: 17.08.26-5-FKO-26
Submission deadline: August 24, 2026, by 11:59 PM Kyiv time
The Kateryna Osadcha Foundation is a charitable organization focused on addressing complex social issues that often fall outside the scope of state support.
The Foundation’s team consists of media professionals, volunteers, and specialists united by shared values: freedom, dignity, openness to new ideas, and agility. Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, the organization focused its efforts on supporting children who have lost their parents, searching for missing civilians, and providing career guidance for youth.
The Foundation operates through charitable contributions and donor funding, in close partnership with UNICEF Ukraine.
The program is implemented by the Kateryna Osadcha Foundation in partnership with UNICEF Ukraine, expanding the parties' previous collaboration across two strategic areas: Social and Behavior Change (SBC) communication in child protection and alternative care, and the development of career management skills for youth.
The "Better Care" component extends the Foundation's proven operational model to humanitarian regions and areas affected by hostilities (Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Ternopil, and Zaporizhzhia regions), where children face increased risks of family separation and institutionalization. Implementation includes family picnics and photo exhibitions in communities, new episodes of the documentary series "A Family for Every Child," mutual support clubs for caregivers and teenagers, and a state mentorship program featuring national public figures.
The "Career Management Skills" component addresses a national priority identified by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the State Employment Service: bridging the gap between education and youth employment. Building on the pilot program "My Path — Career Trajectories," this component involves refining evidence-based methodology, packaging it into a replicable toolkit, training municipal practitioners using a training-of-trainers approach in 5 communities, and building the capacity of the State Employment Service to apply SBC approaches in communication with youth.
This position is implemented within the "Career Management Skills" component of this Program and serves as the primary methodological foundation for the subsequent work of other component experts.
The developed toolkit will be used directly by the Capacity Building Expert(s) to conduct training-of-trainers in 5 target communities and by the Project Support Expert(s) to oversee local implementation.
Review and refinement of the existing "My Path — Career Trajectories" methodology (pilot in Zaporizhzhia), operationalization of specific domains of the Career Management Skills framework, adaptation to the Ukrainian wartime context, and development of the methodology into an independent, replicable toolkit (a five-stage path) with quality control and supervision mechanisms. Subsequently, providing methodological support for the implementation of the toolkit in target communities.
Estimated service delivery period: 12 months
Workload: Full-time (100%) for the first 4 months; Part-time (20%) for the following 8 months
Form of cooperation: contract with a Group 3 sole proprietor
More detailed information is available in the Annex — Procurement Notice (Terms of Reference).
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