Job Title: WASH Expert Facilitator
Company Profile: SoCha (a
portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning (ME&L) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges.
Since our inception in 2010, we have grown into a fully-fledged ME&L services firm that specializes in advancing innovative methodologies and changing the way donors find solutions to social problems.
Background: To support
USAID/Kenya East Africa seeks to advance what self-reliance means for Kenya and
the broader region.
To support USAID/KEA to align programming toward promoting
self-reliance outcomes, SoCha LLC implements a two-year (optional third year)
mission support program to enable USAID to pivot into this journey to
self-reliance (J2SR).
The Mission Support for the Journey toSelf-Reliance Pivot (MSP)
supports USAID/KEA to understand context, align programs, collect data,
understand complexity, and apply learning to program adaptation.
To better understand and develop innovative solutions with
public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit partners USAID/KEA released a Broad
Agency Announcement (BAA) in November 2020.
This BAA is a competitive and collaborative process that guides
how USAID will co-create activities in western Kenya to address water,
sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenges. Local and international partners
will be invited to participate in a series of workshops to be held in February
2021.
USAID requests the assistance of the Mission Support for the
Journey to Self-Reliance Pivot (MSP) to work with USAID/KEA to design and
execute two multi-day virtual co-creation workshops with stakeholders.
Scope of Work: The MSP program,
implemented by SoCha LLC, seeks a consultant to serve as a short-term
co-creation facilitator to support USAID WASH activity co-creation workshops.
MSP seeks to engage a WASH Expert Facilitator to collaborate with MSP staff and
USAID/KEA to design, plan, and execute two separate multi-day virtual
co-creation workshops to address WASH challenges in western Kenya.
Roles and
Responsibilities
To plan and execute two separate multi-day virtual co-creation
workshops the WASH Expert Facilitator will collaborate with MSP staff to
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Support the USAID/KEA WASH team to develop and finalize two
multi-day workshop agenda;
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Prepare detailed facilitation plans for the workshops, and
continuously update facilitation plans as the workshops progress;
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Prepare workshop materials, including workshop session slides,
instructions, participant worksheets;
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Consolidate workshop presentations from participants and produce
overall workshop slide decks, including integration of Mentimeter or similar
participation tools where appropriate;
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Prepare and host virtual workshop meeting spaces (share links
with USAID);
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Facilitate the overall workshops, including question and answer
sessions and group discussions, control break out rooms;
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Assist MSP and the workshop rapporteur to gather appropriate
workshop outputs as required to assemble the workshop proceedings report, and
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Conduct two after-action reviews to reflect on lessons learned
and advise USAID on future co-creation workshops.
Deliverables for each multi-day
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Workshop materials: slides, worksheets
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Workshop session facilitation
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Workshop after-action review
Qualifications and
experience
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Experience in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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Experience designing and facilitating activity or project design
workshops preferred; experience designing and facilitating donor and
stakeholder workshops required.
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Experience working with USAID.
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Experience in East Africa, Kenya preferred.
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Understanding of USAID program cycle and USAID activity design
processes.
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Experience working with and securing sensitive information.
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Bachelor’s degree in related field, Master’s preferred.
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Five years or more of professional experience working in the
development sector preferred.
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Experience designing and facilitating virtual workshops and
meetings is highly preferred.
LOE or Contract
Length: The consultant is expected to start working in January 2021 for
a period of approximately 9-12 days LOE, lasting through the end of February
2021.
How to Apply:
To lodge an application, please lodge CV via the following link: https://jobs.socha.net/msp-wash-expert-facilitator/.
Applications closes on the 8th January 2021
For any other queries please email us at: recruit@socha.net