Consultant/Contractual Jobs at Brites Management, Kenya Red Cross Society, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Chemonics International and The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
• Deliver and facilitate business strategy workshops, info sessions and webinars
• Deliver quality coaching sessions in a timely manner
• Assist clients with their strategies
• Be involved in Business Development
• Prepare comprehensive activity reports
• Conduct research on and develop business plans

Required Specifications
• 3 years’ experience in Business Development Services work supporting entrepreneurs or managing own business
• Experience, knowledge and exposure in business functions, business strategy and entrepreneurship
• Minimum Degree in a business-related course
• Additional certification courses in entrepreneurship and business strategy will be an advantage
• Experience working with SMEs and entrepreneurs
• Possess advanced report writing skills
• Possess training, facilitation and presentation skills
• Knowledge in proposal writing and tender preparation is an advantage
• Effective oral and written communicator
• Ability to plan, set and attain goals
• Adaptable and flexible – available on call and willing to travel when required
• Basic knowledge of Ms Office, Google suites and the Internet


JOB DETAILS:
Purpose
To respond to this intent, KRCS is seeking to recruit a qualified and experienced consultant for a short-term contract to support in digitalization of community referral directory for legal and social support structures. The consultant will digitalize referral directory focusing on social support structures on provision of social assistance, access to economic, social support and provision of livelihood support to individuals. The specific support includes and not limited to the following;
• Cash transfers and conditional cash transfers, Food Subsidies, Direct Feeding Programs, School-Based Food Programs, social Health Insurance (NHIF&NSSF), Microfinance.
• Foster home for children with disability.
• Nutrition, Reproductive Health, WASH, Livelihood and Child sponsorship,
• Shelter and care, Child protection and Education and rescue centers
• Household Empowerment strengthening
• Psychosocial support Counselling and referrals including for FGM related issues.
• Safeguard and protect the rights and welfare of children.
• Orphans and vulnerable populations (OVC) support, young girls’ empowerment and child sponsorship.
• Health services for OVCs and Mental health support.
• Scholastic support for vulnerable children.

The legal support structures include provision of legal information, linkage and referral for legal support, link to pro bono services, legal counselling, litigation and legal representation. This includes but not limited to;
• GBV prevention and responses initiatives.
• Integrated services for SGBV survivors
• Support for GBV survivors, psychosocial Support
• Linkage to safe house and, temporary shelters for GBV survivors.
• Rehabilitation of non-custodial offenders.
• Harm reduction referrals.
• Collection of specimens for screening for GBV.
• Alternative Community dispute and conflict resolution.
• Support for legal aid and litigation

The consultant will digitize the referral directory documents and provide the resources required for each stage by creating a one-stop shop to ensure easier access and use for all persons in need of the legal and social support information and services.

Objectives of the Consultancy
• The Overall Objective of the Consultancy is the digitization of the community referral directory for legal and social support structures. The Social support structures includes the provision of social assistance, access to economic, social support and provision of livelihood support. The legal support structures include provision of legal information, linkage and referral for legal support, link to pro bono services, legal counselling, litigation and legal representation in the 47 counties of Kenya

The Specific Objectives of the consultancy include the following:
• Define the current referral system, and the current tools being used to strengthen the legal and social support system.
• Devise a system to ensure direct access to information or resources on where users may gain specific services within the community and at the county level in all 47 counties.
• Map the services to be provided by the participating stakeholders and show the links of the services.
• Provide an opportunity for users to give feedback on any bottlenecks or loopholes that may be experienced in the use of the referral director

Expected Outcomes of the digitalized community referral directory

The digitized referral directory will provide the following:
• Provide direct access to resource areas referenced in the referral directory to ensure access to all service providers within the community actors that can provide assistance.
• A method to analyze the number of persons making use of the referral directory in order to collect data on its use, in line with the Data Protection Act.
• An administration panel for the system administrators to update and access the system’s database.
• Referral Map and Directory to be adopted nationally in Kenya after digitization.

Scope of work
• The consultant will be mandated to digitalize community referral directory for legal and social support structures focusing on social assistance, access to economic, social support and provision of livelihood support while the legal support structure will focus on provision of legal information, linkage and referral for legal support, link to pro bono services, legal counselling, litigation and legal representation
• The consultant will use the existing database developed through the sub recipients working with KRCS under the Global funds HIV Grant and ensure provision of additional information that might not have not been included in each of the counties. The consultant will also be expected to include information for other counties not included in the existing database as what is in the existing data base is only a guide to ensure holistic social and legal services are included and digitalized in the referral directory.

Duration of the assignment
• The assignment should be completed within 20 consecutive working days after signing the Agreement, including inception report, review of relevant materials, development of drafts and review and finalization of the referral document and referral map.

Deliverables
• The key deliverables for the assignment are as follows:

• Inception report, prepared after an inception meeting with final work plan and timelines as agreed on with KRCS
• The digitized system on the use of the referral directory with an opportunity for users to give feedback on any bottlenecks or loopholes that may be experienced in the use of the referral directory.
Referral documents and all other materials related to this assignment

KRCS Deliverables
• KRCS shall avail relevant reference materials, review drafts and provide comments to the consultant to finalize the digitized referral directory. The roles will be further defined at an inception meeting.

Qualification of the consultant
Functional Competencies:
• Expert knowledge on Management of Systems;
• Knowledge of the national GBV situation and its management challenges;
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
• Experience in conducting research and desk reviews;
• Excellent ability to write and articulate issues in a concise language;

Advanced Degree in one of the following:
• Computer Science
• Information technology
• Management information systems

All Bidders are required to meet the following minimum requirements in order to qualify for submission of their proposal:
• Previous experience in similar assignments.
• Capability of the assessment team: Team member(s) shall relevant experience as stated above.
• Attachment of all supportive documents with the technical proposal is required.


JOB DETAILS:
ILRI Consultancy: Development of a Women-Entrepreneurship Program for Small Scale Food Retailers
Scope of Work:
The consultant will undertake the following activities:
• Develop plan of activities for consultancy, including timeline, field work and deliverables, as well as documentation for ethical approval application. (1 day)
• Learning needs. Identify key constraints and learning needs in relation to broadly defined business and enterprise issues, including cash flow and financing, among small scale vendors in the informal dairy value chain in Kenya, with particular emphasis on women. This activity will involve review of literature, secondary data, semi-structured interviewing and/or FGDs with relevant stakeholders. (7 days)
• Develop an inventory of existing trainings or capacity development programs directed to business operators in formal or informal food markets in East Africa or elsewhere, and that address some of the identified learning needs. This activity will be a desk review. (3 days)
• Analysis, report write-up and presentation of outputs of (2) and (3). (3 days)
• Adaptation of existing training program for dairy vendors and re-design as Vendor Business School (VBS) tool. Based on the diagnosis and learning needs assessment, revise modules that will be retained from existing programs, and draft new modules. Structure the VBS considering group vs individual participants, gender, sessions (frequency of meetings -weekly/ bi-weekly, time availability of the vendors, etc.). Develop a proposed outline of the training content and program. (7 days)
• VBS review workshop. The VBS review workshop will involve women and men vendors of different kinds working in the dairy sector, training and marketing specialists, market management representatives and others. This workshop will be organized (4 days, including preparation, implementation and report write up)
• Finalization of Vendor Business School (VBS) tool. Full development of the content and outline of the training program (15 days)
Final products:
The consultant will deliver.
• Consultancy time plan, including timeline of activities and deliverables.
• Report of learning needs and inventory of capacity development programs
• Presentation of findings from report (see deliverable 2 above)
• Draft report of program outline and content
• Report of VBS review workshop
• Final program content and outline.
Consultancy Fee: Lumpsum or by mutual agreement based on agreed milestones and deliverables
Post location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: September 2022– December 2022 (working days: 40 days)

Essential skills and qualifications
• MSc in agriculture related field, including economics. PhD or MBA would be an asset
• Experience in capacity development programs with agriculture and agrifood businesses.
• Experience in development and delivery of training programs
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili in speaking and writing
• Excellent team communication skills
Closing: 7 September 2022


JOB DETAILS:
Specialist, Strategic Assessments

The Health and Supply Chain (HSC) BL Strategic Assessment Team (SAT) seeks a Specialist who will be responsible for monitoring and completing tasks related to Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) and Global Health Division recordkeeping and file architecture, performing internal reviews and analysis, drafting recommendations and proposing process improvements, technical capacity, and management and leadership. The Specialist reports to the HSC Strategic Assessment Director.

Responsibilities
• Review backup documentation for transactions to identify potential gaps in the effective implementation of internal controls according to Chemonics’ and project policies and procedures
• Design tailored testing matrices and perform assessments of key records for completeness, accuracy and accessibility and review the work of the team for document accuracy and completeness.
• Responsible to lead one or more work plan activities such as assessments of certain type of services (commodity, warehousing and distribution, etc.)
• Investigate and document compensating controls, if needed as a result of review
• Provide regular updates on status of data quality assurance and audit preparedness
• Maintain records architecture, naming conventions, and SOPs for both physical and digital file management
• Develop presentation of ongoing observations, recommendations, and next steps to improve audit preparedness to deliver to senior project and HSC leadership
• Develop and deliver trainings as needed on document tagging and document retention
• Support live audits in gathering and reviewing requested documents and data for completeness, and identify potential risks with incomplete documentation
• Actively engages in technical practice of relevance to areas of interest or focus, sharing information and best practices learned with the company
• Identify issues or potential risks and make informed decisions on how to address the issues, communicating, when appropriate, with the SAT Director, project and HSC leadership and the Senior Vice President
• Appropriately consults with support divisions on home-office and project-office matters to help make informed decisions
• Supervises, develops, and evaluates assigned staff, if assigned staff. Ensures staff receive regular constructive performance feedback, prompt resolution of problems, and the time and opportunity to grow professionally.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in relevant technical competency area such as accounting, finance, or business administration
• Minimum 3 years of project management or relevant experience, including financial management responsibilities
• Strong knowledge of MS Office applications, especially Excel and PowerBI. Experience using ARTMIS preferred
• Strong organizational and work prioritization skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, and lead presentations, training courses, and effective meetings
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Strong understanding of Chemonics’ financial processes preferred
• Strong record keeping skills, spreadsheet, word processing abilities, knowledge of MS Office applications, and attention to detail
• Supervisory experience preferred


JOB DETAILS:
Agricultural Data Extraction & Synthesis Consultant
Background
The OneCGIAR Initiative on Livestock Climate Systems Resilience (LCSR) is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), two of the 15 research centers of CGIAR.
LCSR aims to directly enable 600,000 producers (at least 40% women) in nine countries to better prepare for and manage uncertain futures by improving security of access to resources and adopting management practices that enhance their climate-related adaptive capacities (livestock assets) while ensuring household equity and reducing GHGe intensities. LCSR is part of the CGIAR Action Area on Resilient Agri-food System.
LCSR will engage with various public and private sector climate investors through (Work Package 4, WP4) which this role will support. WP4 will build investor confidence in the livestock sector by better understanding their needs for investment and monitoring, and improving the capacity of SMEs to absorb finance. A key assumption is that we can build trust, understand investor constraints and needs, and respond with sufficient evidence.
To compile and generate the evidence WP4 needs an evidence synthesis of livestock management outcomes (e.g., productivity, gender, emissions, resilience) for various mitigation and climate change adaption technologies will be performed. This synthesis will leverage and expand on the Evidence for Resilient Agriculture database.
The Position:
LCSR is looking for talented, detail orientated and logical professionals who are highly driven and able to balance the use of initiative against following complex instructions. The consultants will play a crucial role in supporting LCSR evidence synthesis for livestock mitigation and adaption technologies. As such they will require a background in agriculture, preferably livestock.
Consultants will be part of the LCSR WP4 team and their main role is to extract data from pre-identified papers and do data analysis as appropriate. This will yield a robust database of the available information. Data will be extracted according to well-established protocols, but we expect critical feedback to improve our systems. Successful candidates will collaborate with the other consultants and project leads. The expected deliverable is quantitative data extracted from literature that will be form the basis of decision support tools and gap analysis to prioritize investments in livestock research and development. The consultants will need to pass an assessment of aptitude, efficiency, and accuracy conducted after a training event and probationary period at the beginning of the contract.
Specifically, consultants will focus on:
Activities
• Training course on ERA livestock data extraction
• Extraction of peer reviewed or grey literature using the ERA excel tools and/or on-line user-interfaces.
• Quality control of team data extractions.
• Feedback for iterative user-orientated design of data extraction systems.
• Reporting and monitoring of progress using project management tools (such as Jita) and regular communication and engagement with project Team using Slack or Microsoft Teams Teamwork. Being an active part of a cohesive data extraction team that supports one-another to solve problems and answer questions.
• Deliverables
• Training course completed
• Minimum average extraction rate of at least 5 publications per day by one month after training. A rate of 6+ is desirable.
• Checks a minimum average 5 papers from the rest of the team each day. A rate of 6+ is desirable (but limited by team output).
• Regularly suggests improvements or reports bugs/issues to team leader or design team.
• Accurately reports progress and actively engages with Microsoft Teams or Slack channels.
• Consultant works well within the extraction team, showing evidence of engagement with other team members on communication channels.
Frequency
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Requirements
• Advanced degree in one of the following or related field: Agronomy, Agroecology, Environmental Sciences, Livestock Science, Landscape Ecology, Policy, Agricultural or Development Economics, International Agricultural Development, Horticulture, or related field.
• Working experience and/or research outputs for areas related to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation preferably in livestock, but other agricultural experience is also valid.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, cross-cultural, collaborative and decentralized environment, and operate under tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; a second language (Portuguese or Spanish) is strongly preferred
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to follow complex instructions whilst being a critical thinker able to problem solve when appropriate.
• A hardworking and positive attitude.
• Willingness to travel internationally if not a resident of Kenya.
• Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel skills. Ability to use R, and familiarity with Slack, Jira or Microsoft Teams is preferred.