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Short-Term Consultancy: Organizational Development Consultant for a Landscape Assessment in Jamaica under the USAID Localize Global Health Security Program
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Location
Jamaica – Kingston and surrounding areas
Period of Performance and Level of Effort
Description of the USAID Localize Global Health Security project
The Localize Global Health Security (LGHS) project is implemented by Panagora (Prime), Itad and PATH. This global project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), supports local partners in priority USAID global health security (GHS) countries to address gaps in health security as identified in national health security capacity assessments. LGHS complements the multisectoral cross-technical approaches of other GHS programs to move countries closer to achieving Global Health Security Agenda targets. LGHS will do this by establishing and managing a flexible grants program that addresses subnational gaps in global health security. The project is designed to offer grantees technical assistance in GHS and organizational capacity strengthening, to support organizational growth as they implement GHS programming.
As a result of this support, local partners will be able to address critical gaps in health security through grants and technical assistance in prioritized technical areas, strengthen the organizational capacity of local entities to effectively manage the implementation of health security technical interventions and expand global knowledge base on approaches and best practices for local entities conducting global health security interventions.
Position Description
LGHS seeks an Organizational Development Consultant, based in Jamaica, to provide expertise in localization, organizational development and capacity strengthening to support the development of an in-country landscape assessment. The assessment aims to provide context and clarity around Mission commitments for LGHS, inform strong program design in Jamaica, and identify organizations that are already working, intending to work, or showing the potential to work on health security activities, and may have the capacity to manage USAID funds to implement activities in the pre-identified GHS technical focus areas— zoonotic disease, community-based zoonotic disease surveillance, risk communication, social behavior change, and community engagement —and deliver results.
Through the landscape assessment, we will seek to better understand the enabling and inhibiting factors for operation of local organizations and reflect what local entities and other stakeholders perceive will best support health security programming at the subnational level, while reaching marginalized communities and most vulnerable populations.
The Organizational Development (OD) Consultant will report to the Landscaping Team Lead, and work in close collaboration with the in-country GHS consultant and the US-based landscape assessment team, who will travel to Jamaica to initiate the assessment, and provide on-going support to the Jamaica-based consultants throughout the performance period.
The OD Consultant will need to engage with national and subnational actors and meet with stakeholders that work in global health security (one health). In addition to meeting with stakeholders, this landscape assessment will involve meeting with local organizations engaged in the selected technical focus areas (i.e. Zoonotic Disease, Community-Based Zoonotic Disease Surveillance, Risk Communication, Social Behavior Change, and Community Engagement)—and begin to inform how a grants-under-contract (GUC) program should be tailored to the specific actors and needs in Jamaica.
The main objectives to be achieved through this landscape analysis include:
Duties and responsibilities
The consultant will provide the following services, which include, but are not limited to the following:
Review key project documents to understand the scope of LGHS in relevant countries, including landscape assessment tools, the mission scope of work, and related short documents describing the grants, landscape assessment and OCS workflow.
Contribute to the desk review, identifying resources and providing summaries to help the team better understand localization, health security and organizational development work that has been done in Jamaica.
Use local network to identify relevant stakeholders with whom to meet, including a range of stakeholders from senior officials to grassroots organizations.
Contact a range of USAID partners, local organizations who are potential partners, individuals, and other institutions, to set up meetings.
Support the development of country-specific materials (including an information gathering survey, focus group discussion guide, or updates/materials requested by the mission).
Schedule and conduct informational interviews by phone and/or in person with relevant organizations.
Draft visit schedules and support members of the Washington-based team members while they are travelling in-country to arrange key informant interviews with a range of stakeholders, most of which are local organizations working at the subnational level (team member travel to Jamaica is expected around April 22-May 4).
Assist in the planning and preparations for capture visits, as required including the arrangement of transport logistics
Manage schedule, ensuring adequate time between meetings and maintaining courteous and professional communications
Attend meetings with assessment team and document meetings with detailed notes
Provide guidance on local context and innovative approaches that could enhance LGHS’ impact.
Document findings from key informant interviews through clear notes from the meetings.
Support the organization of group meetings, workshops or focus group discussions as deemed appropriate to gather and exchange information.
Contribute to a presentation of findings that will be provided to the mission at the end of this assignment.
Together with the GHS consultant lead the writing of the Organizational Landscape Report (key deliverable for this assignment).
Qualification Requirements
If you are interested in this consultancy please apply via the link at Bamboo, submitting your CV and daily rate in USD by March 29, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Itad is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.