AI Business Strategy Curriculum Designer & Lead Trainer (Ethics, Adoption, Value Creation, Process Optimzation)

Youth Grow Activity (YGA)

Scope of work

PROJECT BACKGROUND

About Youth Grow Activity

Launched in 2023, Youth Grow Activity (YGA) is a five-year US Government (USG)-funded initiative that aims to transform the economic trajectory of Jordan’s youth while strengthening resilient, opportunity-rich local systems to promote long-term stability and security. YGA reflects a growing strategic consensus: youth economic empowerment is no longer just a development objective; it is a tool for socioeconomic prosperity. YGA tackles the root causes of economic exclusion and youth unemployment—key drivers of social unrest, destabilized vulnerable communities, and brain drain and migration. By aligning local and national economic opportunities with shared regional and global strategic interests, YGA leverages economic empowerment as a force to foster resilient partnerships that help co-create future-ready systems.

YGA focuses on three core objectives:

1. Increased youth access to income-generating opportunities. YGA prepares, inspires, and links youth with opportunities and career pathways that allow them to generate income in growing arenas, including technology-enabled work, remote employment, and enhancing youth-led and youth-serving enterprises’ growth opportunities.
2. Enhanced youth economic leadership through targeted support of youth-led, youth-serving organizations, and youth groups through integrating sustainable practices and procedures for youth economic integration into the local and national ecosystem and enhancing youth's meaningful involvement in decision-making by creating avenues where their voices are heard to shape support activities that affect their economic progress. This approach allows YGA to support inclusive economic growth that fosters innovation and long-term value creation.
3. Strengthened Jordan's youth development system in partnership with youth through enhanced coordination among stakeholders within youth-relevant services and policies and strengthened youth centers' capacity to serve as a connection hub between youth and youth support ecosystems to develop a lasting environment for youth empowerment and engagement.

About Q2IMPACT (QED Group, LLC DBA Q2 Impact)

Q2IMPACT, a QED Group company, brings over 25 years of expertise in data-driven, impact-focused solutions at the intersection of development, diplomacy, and defense. Rooted in this dynamic history, Q2IMPACT leverages cutting-edge technology, data-driven insight, and strategic expertise to tackle today’s most pressing challenges. Evolving with global priorities, Q2IMPACT blends its rich legacy in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA); data analytics; systems strengthening; and adaptive programming with a renewed focus on strategic relevance, economic growth, and national security. Q2IMPACT is the Prime Subrecipient under the USG-funded Youth Grow Activity (YGA) under Agreement No. 72027823CA00003.

AI Curriculum & Training Background

As part of its youth entrepreneurship support program, YGA is developing a two-day national training program focused on enabling early-stage entrepreneurs to embed artificial intelligence into business operations in a practical, ethical, and sustainable manner, aiming at accelerating the business growth This training is built on YGA’s approved curriculum outline and informed by a needs assessment conducted with Jordanian incubators and accelerators. The program aims to equip entrepreneurs with foundational AI knowledge, hands-on tool exposure, strategy development skills, and ethical frameworks that align with Jordan’s emerging AI policy landscape.

The curriculum serves dual strategic purposes: (1) providing direct, high-value support to a first cohort of 50–60 entrepreneurs from Jordan’s north, Center, and south regions; and (2) establishing a standardized, replicable curriculum that will later be used in a Training-of-Trainers (ToT) program for incubator and accelerator staff across Jordan. The two consultants contracted under this scope will co-develop the curriculum and co-deliver the first pilot training, ensuring that content is practical, accessible to non-technical founders, and aligned with the gaps and opportunities identified during the needs assessment.

SCOPE OF WORK

Purpose of the Assignment

The AI for Business Specialist will lead the business strategy, value creation, ethics, process oprimzation, and applied business use-case components of the curriculum and co-deliver the pilot training.

Key Responsibilities

1. Curriculum Co-Development

• Lead development of modules on AI strategy, business value mapping, AI ethics, organizational readiness, and KPI-driven adoption.
• Create practical exercises, worksheets, simulations, and case studies.
• Tailor examples to Jordan’s startup ecosystem based on needs assessment findings.

2. Business Relevance and Contextualization

• Ensure curriculum applicability to both tech and non-tech sectors (creative, agriculture, services, EdTech, marketplaces).
• Integrate business validation and market simulation tools relevant for early-stage startups.

3. Co-Delivery of the Pilot Training

• Co-deliver with the technical consultant a two-day in-person training to a total of 50–60 entrepreneurs, divided between 3 regions (North, Center, and South).
• Facilitate business strategy exercises, discussions, and pitch simulations.
• Provide coaching and feedback to participants during the training.

4. Coordination and Reporting

• Participate in planning meetings with YGA.
• Submit all final revised materials in editable form.
• Provide a short business-focused reflection report.

LEVEL OF EFFORT AND TIMEFRAME

The designated level of effort for this consultation is up to 12 working days (96 working hours) delivered over 45 calendar days from the date of signing the contract.  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in business strategy, digital transformation, entrepreneurship development, or innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in AI for business, business model innovation, AI strategy, and technology-enabled value creation.
• Proven experience training entrepreneurs and startup teams.
• Strong understanding of AI ethics and responsible adoption in line with global frameworks and Jordan’s national AI direction.
• Experience supporting both tech and non-tech startups.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Innovation, Economics, or related fields; Master’s preferred.
• Fluency in English and in Arabic.