Consultant for the Development of the Helping Adolescents Thrive Comic Book for Adolescents Aged 15–19 Years

Develops a culturally relevant Helping Adolescents Thrive comic book and teacher guide for older adolescents, translating participatory consultations and mental-health evidence into engaging educational content that supports social-emotional learning, resilience and help-seeking.

• Consult adolescents to identify priority mental-health and wellbeing themes
• Develop an age-appropriate comic narrative and accompanying teacher guide
• Translate consultation findings into practical social-emotional learning content
• Adapt characters, storylines and guidance to Bhutanese cultural contexts
• Apply safeguarding and ethical standards during adolescent participation
• Coordinate content development with UNICEF, education authorities and programme partners
• Prepare high-quality design and production outputs for pilot use
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback into final publication-ready resources

• Master degree in psychology, education, public health, social work, sociology, anthropology, child development or educational psychology
• At least five years of experience developing adolescent communication, education or behaviour-change materials
• Experience conducting participatory consultations with adolescents using safeguarding and ethical engagement standards
• Experience working with government agencies, UNICEF or other development partners
• Fluency in English and knowledge of Dzongkha
• Bhutanese nationality

• Remote home-based consultancy with travel to Bhutan
• Contract duration is four months
• The role carries elevated child-safeguarding risk and may require additional vetting
• Applicants must submit technical and financial proposals using the specified formats