FHI 360 is seeking applications for a Technical Advisor (TA), Capacity Strengthening for a USAID-funded multi-year project focused on scaling up HIV/AIDS services in Haut-Katanga province. The TA will support capacity strengthening activities for the project, including: leading organizational assessment process and capacity strengthening planning in close collaboration with local partners; delivering and coordinating organizational development and technical support to CSOs to address co-created organizational goals; preparing organizations to receive direct USAID funding; providing continuing capacity strengthening to local partners transition to direct funding, and; examining ways to diversify and sustain organizational activities.
Working closely with project teams in-country and globally, the TA will develop and execute on capacity strengthening objectives in workplans, share technical expertise and guidance related to capacity strengthening activities, manage consultants or staff focused on capacity development work, ensure technical excellence in interventions delivered, and track capacity strengthening achievements. The TA will also play a critical role in knowledge management and thought leadership including identifying opportunities for knowledge sharing on capacity development interventions, draft and support staff to implement guidance related to capacity strengthening and contribute substantially to deliverables and knowledge products.
Main Duties/Responsibilities:
Technical Requirements:
- Coordinates closely with the technical team to ensure capacity strengthening is in line with program objectives and goals, workplan deliverables, recognized best practices for adult learning, and country needs.
- Develops partnerships with a range of civil society partners and liaise and coordinate with key stakeholders related to the assigned project’s capacity strengthening portfolio including senior leadership with partner organizations, Government officials and donors.
- Design capacity strengthening interventions aligned with best practices and with the appropriate mix of formal learning, working sessions, mentoring and on the job coaching, to ensuring quality programming and tailoring to local partners needs.
- Mentor team in tracking, analysis, and synthesis of capacity strengthening results to advance learning both within the program and externally.
- Be accountable for the development of toolkits, two pagers, success stories and other promotional materials, edit / review donor reports and provide other support.
Project Design Implementation:
- Provides input into the technical portion of the project plan, budgeting, program reporting, and other deliverables related to capacity development activities within the given resource and financial constraints.
- Maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with field counterparts and
technical staff members of implementing partners.- Manages the capacity strengthening team within the program (consultants and staff), including management, administration and reporting and monitoring and evaluation.
- Serves as an internal technical resource on relevant issues and facilitates connections between staff members and divisions as and where needed.
Business Development and Client/Funder Support:
- Leads and contributes to proposal development including drafting relevant technical sections, participating in business development meetings with partners/clients, and contributing to proposal budgets.
- Participate in client / funder meetings and provide technical input, draft reports and presentations for relevant audiences and represents the organization to external entities at professional meetings and conferences.
- Represents FHI 360 in professional and public settings and makes presentations at professional meetings and conferences.
Operations Management (Finance, HR, etc.):
- Escalate challenges or issues to Project Leadership, as needed.
Project/Program Reporting:
- Coordinate preparation, review/approvals process, and submission of materials on behalf of country offices for presentation at academic conferences and/or publication in peer-reviewed journals related to capacity strengthening work;
- Support the tracking of technical assistance and refinement of capacity strengthening activities across the work portfolio.
- Supports documentation and collation of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories and identifies opportunities for shared learning across and between country offices, partners, and stakeholders
- Reviews and strengthens regular programmatic reporting on capacity strengthening activities
Quality Assurance:
- Ensures technical deliverables related to capacity strengthening from assigned countries are of high quality and meet client / funder contractual obligations
Applied Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong knowledge and skills
- Ensures technical deliverables related to capacity strengthening from assigned countries are of high quality and meet client / funder contractual obligations
- Reviews and strengthens regular programmatic reporting on capacity strengthening activities
- Supports documentation and collation of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories and identifies opportunities for shared learning across and between country offices, partners, and stakeholders
- Support the tracking of technical assistance and refinement of capacity strengthening activities across the work portfolio.
- Coordinate preparation, review/approvals process, and submission of materials on behalf of country offices for presentation at academic conferences and/or publication in peer-reviewed journals related to capacity strengthening work;
- Escalate challenges or issues to Project Leadership, as needed.
- Represents FHI 360 in professional and public settings and makes presentations at professional meetings and conferences.
- Participate in client / funder meetings and provide technical input, draft reports and presentations for relevant audiences and represents the organization to external entities at professional meetings and conferences.
- Leads and contributes to proposal development including drafting relevant technical sections, participating in business development meetings with partners/clients, and contributing to proposal budgets.
- Serves as an internal technical resource on relevant issues and facilitates connections between staff members and divisions as and where needed.
- Manages the capacity strengthening team within the program (consultants and staff), including management, administration and reporting and monitoring and evaluation.
- Maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with field counterparts and
- Provides input into the technical portion of the project plan, budgeting, program reporting, and other deliverables related to capacity development activities within the given resource and financial constraints.
- Design capacity strengthening interventions aligned with best practices and with the appropriate mix of formal learning, working sessions, mentoring and on the job coaching, to ensuring quality programming and tailoring to local partners needs.