2022-07-18

Terms Of Reference For Capacity Building Programme For Oxfam Local Partenrs – Somaliland

Somaliland
Posted on July 18, 2022

OXFAM

Terms Of Reference For Capacity Building Programme For Oxfam Local Partenrs – Somaliland

Job Description

TERMS OF REFERENCE

CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME FOR OXFAM LOCAL PARTENRS

Background:

Oxfam Novib aspires to make a sustained and significant positive impact on global poverty and injustice and believes that it is only through the collective efforts of many actors that this goal can be achieved. Oxfam Novib thinks of this as a ‘global movement for change’, which we believe is creating the conditions and structural changes necessary for effective, people-centered, sustainable change and development. As part of this movement, Oxfam works in a variety of partnerships in dozens of countries around the world and at global level. The number of partners with whom Oxfam engages grows year by year. The key relationships we seek are those that most effectively address the root causes of poverty, vulnerability, and injustice, and that help strengthen people as empowered agents of their own development. Oxfam understands partnerships as mutually empowering relationships in which the partners are aware of power dynamics and focused on mutual growth, organizational development, institutional strengthening and, above all, achieving impact together. We believe that implementing programs in partnership increases the collective knowledge, skills, reach, and experience applied to an issue or challenge. To build a partnership, Oxfam and partners hold a series of conversations in which we address shared values (ethical alignment), a shared vision (strategic alignment) and building trust to work together (operational relationship and accountability).

The Programme is planned to mobilize partners and strengthen their organizational setting in certain areas such as: advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing . This is intended to be achieved through building knowledge, capabilities, and transforming partners structurally. This component of the program is the result of the (Project Risk Management Approach) which is an internal procedure that focus in assessing risks, identifying, developing, and implementing strategies for partnership capacity development.

Objectives of the Assignment:

Oxfam is looking for experienced consultant to conduct trainings to equip and support partner staff to enhance their skills in advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing with a specific focus on influencing policy development, technical support on developing integrated proposals, developing funding Strategy. The assignment targets five partner organizations and exclusively their staff under advocacy, fundraising and program departments.

Following are also the assignment objectives:

Carry out Focus Group Discussions and Key Informants Interviews to understand partners existing policies/procedures on advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing.
Work on enhancing the existing polices and procedures and identifying the gabs to be filled.
Train key partner staff on approaches to develop wining proposals.
Training partners on Fundraising methods and develop fundraising policy.
Ensuring partners have fundamental understanding on important of strategic advocacy and developing a sound advocacy policy.

Training Deliverables:

Coaching 5 partner organizations in advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing.
Supporting partner staff in developing policies and procedures in advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing.
Training report.

Time frame:

The assignment days including preparing the mission report shall last for 15 days. The assignment planned to start on 15th Agust.2022

Skills and Qualifications

Familiar with /knowledge of working in the humanitarian sector and organizational policies and procedures
Experience with conducting organizational trainings
Familiar with /knowledge of working in a Somali context will be considered as an advantage.

How to apply

Qualified consultants -individual or institutional consultants- are invited to submit a proposal (in English) that includes the following:

CV and cover letter, outlining experience in developing organizational policies/procedures and experience in conducting trainings to local organizations in advocacy, fundraising, proposal writing .
Workplan and draft course outline including a summary of the content areas to be covered and daily program of activities.
Detailed reference list indicating the scope and magnitude of similar assignments.
Registration and other relevant statutory documents required for the institutional consultants.
The financial proposal in USD clearly showing the budgeted cost of the work to be conducted (to be submitted in a separate document from the technical proposal) including 6% Somaliland Government tax for local consultant and 12% for the international consultant.

If interested, please share your application by 25th July , 2022 to email address:

SOM-Consultancies@oxfam.org

After the application deadline, Oxfam will contact shortlisted applicants for an interview and further explanation

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