Grievance-Based Violence Training Consultant

Grievance-Based Violence Training Consultant

About BGC Canada (formerly Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada)
For 125 years, BGC Canada has been creating opportunities for millions of Canadian kids and teens. As Canada’s largest child and youth-serving charitable and community services organization, our Clubs open their doors to young people of all ages and their families at 635 locations nationwide. During out-of-school hours in small and large cities, and rural and Indigenous communities, our trained staff and volunteers provide intentional programs and services that are responsive to community need and help young people realize positive outcomes as lifelong learners, sustained wellbeing, positive relationships and inspired leaders. Opportunity changes everything.

Our Mission: To provide safe, supportive places where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships, and develop confidence and skills for life.

Our Vision: All children and youth discover and achieve their dreams and grow up to be healthy, successful, and active participants in society.

Our Values: Belonging, respect, encouragement and support, working together, and speaking out.

Our Model for Succes (Theory of Change)
Impact of the Club Experience
Three Common Features of all Clubs
Place of Belonging – Clubs strive to create physical, emotional, and social environments that promote a sense of security and acceptance.
Life-changing Opportunities - Clubs provide enriching programs and experiences where children and youth are challenged to try new things, discover their interests, and acquire new skills that lead to their growth and development
Authentic Connections – Club staff cultivate strong, meaningful relationships with children and youth that are based on connection, caring and support, leading to personal growth, confidence, and character development.

Four Key Outcomes

Lifelong Learners – Club members develop enduring habits of curiosity and are more prepared for the future.

Sustained Wellbeing – Club members are healthy, active, and harmonious, using self-care strategies that contribute to a balanced lifestyle.

Positive Relationships – Club members have healthy connections to themselves and others, with a network of people in their lives who care about them.

Inspired Leaders – Club members develop confidence and have the skills they need to lead themselves and positively influence others.

About The Project

Goal: In partnership with the Students Commission of Canada, the Hearing Unheard Moments project will work towards decreasing grievance-based violence by creating collaborations of shared-purpose organizations and institutions that implement upstream programs and activities under a common framework and messaging designed to foster upstream shifts to cultures of inclusion. These inclusive cultures hear and process grievances, reduce hardening of grievances into violence, and over time reduce occurrences of grievance-based violence in participating communities. 

Objectives:  

• To increase synergy, collaboration and capacity amongst youth-and-family serving organizations, schools and academics working on upstream prevention of polarization and radicalization of youth ages 6 to 24, with tailored programming adjusted for age and demographics.  
• To support provide safe youth programming spaces in schools and communities that spills over into families and builds young people’s resilience to violent extremist influences by addressing risk and protective factors.    
• To help young people make sense of positive and negative online experiences, while helping them connect through positive offline experiences (e.g., at school), to promote positive development.  

Project Deliverables

The consultant will be responsible for developing virtual training sessions that will use existing BGC Canada content, and potentially new content developed by the consultant to enhance the work. This will be delivered to identified Clubs and community partners. The intended audience is Club staff who work directly with children and youth.

The following deliverables are required.

• Development of virtual training resources for BGC Club staff Fall 2025 and early 2026. Sessions will be geared for Club staff and community partners and will use project partner resources and expertise to provide engaging, experiential learning opportunities.
• The ability to offer multiple training sessions for Club staff and community partners to accommodate the time zones across the country.
• Self-Directed learning content developed for Club staff on the MyBGCU Learning Management System in collaboration with our LMS development partners.
• Materials Translated into French.
• Training materials created in compliance with BGC Canada branding and designed using Canva.
• BGC Canada will own the work and have copyright on all materials created specifically for BGC Canada with recognition to the consultant.
• BGC Canada will review and comment on drafts throughout the creation process and will approve the final product.

Internal Liaison

• Primary Contact: Deena Reis-Binne, Senior Director Programs and Evaluation
• Curriculum developers will meet and update BGC Canada team at minimum weekly, and review draft content and all project resources
• Consultants will be provided with previous iterations of the program and evaluations, once an agreement has been signed.

Timeline

• End of September/early October 2026 with trainings offered in November 2025-February 2026

Budget

• Up to $75,000 inclusive of curriculum development, translation, graphic design and all applicable taxes.

Qualifications

• An individual or an organization with multidisciplinary skills including the following:
• Experience and education in grievance-based violence, creating safe youth spaces, and trauma-informed practices.
• Excellent facilitation skills and ability to engage adult learners
• Experience developing knowledge mobilization resources.
• Relevant credentials in teaching, education, curriculum design.
• Not-for-profit experience, preferably with federated models.
• Familiarity with BGC Clubs and alignment with BGC Canada’s Mission, Vision and Values.

Proposal Requirements

The following information must contain the following:

• Team composition, including staff connected to the project
• Relevant skills, qualifications, experience, and expertise in curriculum development, a community-based approach to grievance-based violence as well as equity, diversity and inclusion.
• A description of the values, theories, and/or frameworks that guide your practice.
• A description on how French content will be provided, either through internal capacity or working with an external translator, costs included in the proposal.
• A description of your approach to graphic design and final production of resources.
• A description of your approach to project management.
• A draft workplan and budget.

Selection Process

• All proposals will undergo an evaluation process conducted by a selection committee and will be evaluated according but not limited to the following criteria:
• Overall impression – 10%
• Understanding of need – 30%
• Experience and Expertise – 30%
• Approach – 20%
• Budget – 10%

Proposals to be submitted to the Senior Director, Programs and Evaluation – Deena Reis-Binne, at dreis-binne@bgccan.com by September 10, 2025.

• Only Applicants/organizations to be considered will be contacted for an interview.
• Submit 2 References post interview upon request.