About Capacity Development and Innovation:
In a rapidly changing world, it is crucial that individuals, institutions and systems have the organizational, technical and adaptive capacities to meet their needs. For over 50 years, Pact’s Capacity Development and Innovation (CD&I) practitioners have partnered across sectors to understand, co-create and strengthen existing capacities and approaches that leverage new opportunities to achieve sustainable, resilient systems. As a leader in Capacity Development and pioneer in Innovation that catalyzes ideas in development, Pact’s goal is to enable lasting, systems-focused solutions, where implementers have the skills, tools and resources required to accelerate impact. Our process aligns with the project life cycle core pillars of scan, analyze, plan, act and learn, to ground our work in the principles of learning, quality, customization and partnership.
Summary of Role:
Pact is seeking an experienced consultant to support us as we define, document and package our consultancy services, which will be used to meet the needs of our clients through sourcing for funding opportunities across Pact programs. Over the years Pact has implemented various business models to deliver products and assistance, and now would like to clearly define and document the services we do and can offer via consultancies, the process and the practice. The consultant will work closely with Pact teams at large, with primary focus on the CD&I team to gather information, review past experience, and analyze to inform the development of our consultancy service offerings. Under the management of the CD&I team, they will closely engage with Pact teams throughout the process, complete tasks and produce specific deliverables as outlined below.
Duties and Responsibilities
This activity aims to better define and articulate Pact’s consultancy business model to enable Pact to take advantage of changing development landscapes as part of Pact’s business strategy. This assignment will consider what Pact’s consultancy business model currently looks like and how it can best evolve. It will identify services already packaged and/or ready for packaging; articulate current market for these services and provide guidance/options for services to different segments of potential customers based on emerging trends, expertise, Pact’s suite of evidence-based CD&I tools and methodologies. The consultancy service offerings would be developed based on a review of Pact’s existing materials as well as cutting edge resources on consultancy business models from the larger development community.
Task 1. Inception and Workplan Development
1.1. Hold an engagement meeting with Pact CD&I team to review the deliverables, agree on a timeline for implementation, and identify key priorities to be incorporated into the design of Pact’s consultancy model and offerings.
Task 2: Desk Review and Recommendations for Consultancy model design
2.1. Conduct a review of current available/existing materials from Pact on the various ways in which they have implemented consultancies and that of the larger development community.
2.2. Identify services and combination of tools – conduct market analysis on the needs based on various identified customer segments.
2.3. Identify potential customers along with services they advertise.
2.4. Conduct a design meeting with Pact team to review the consultant’s recommendations based on the literature review and identify key technical components to be included.
Task 3: Draft consultancy service offerings package
3.1. Develop and share a draft
3.2. Identify potential priority services for consultancy model
3.3. Identify organizational structural barriers that have to be addressed for consultancy launch
3.4. Management structure recommendations for CD&I consultancy implementation
Task 4: Orientation/walk through the consultancy services package with Pact staff
4.1. Conduct orientation to provide identified Pact team(s) an understanding of the content of the consultancy services package and discuss various options for its implementation. Participants will include staff from the Pact Global CD&I team, BD team, and select Country offices.
4.2. Incorporate feedback from walk through.
Task 6: Finalize consultancy service offerings package
5.1 Update and finalize.
Requirements:
Deliverables
This consultancy is structured as a fixed price opportunity, with costs aligned with each deliverable. The table below provides the deliverables and related deadlines.
Task
Deliverable
Deadline
1. Inception and Workplan Development
1.1. Engagement meeting notes
1.2. Detailed consultancy workplan and timeline
2. Desk Review and Recommendations for Consultancy model design
2.1. Consultancy model Design Meeting Slide Deck, inclusive of literature review results and recommendations
2.5. Meeting notes
3. Draft consultancy services package
3.1. First draft of consultancy services package
3. Orientation/walk through the consultancy services package and model with Pact staff
4.1. Training Report
5. Incorporate and Finalize Consultancy services package
6.1 Final consultancy package incorporating feedback
Selection Criteria
Criteria
Score (Out of 100 total pts.)
Previous experience with business development and/or fundraising for international development organizations.
20%
Previous experience with capacity development, economic development, social enterprise, business administration, or systems strengthening with health and/or international development programs.
20%
Previous experience designing consultancy business models.
20%
Sound and evidence-based technical approach to activity implementation and completion of deliverables.
20%
Price
20%
Total:
100
Application Requirements
Interested applicants should submit their CV, their proposed cost for each deliverable listed above, and a short (no more than 4 pages page) document in English demonstrating their previous experience and the process they would follow to complete the deliverables above. Completed submissions should be sent to eachor@pactworld.org by 5pm U.S. Eastern Time October 23, 2023.
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, citizenship status, genetic information, matriculation, family responsibilities, personal appearance, credit information, tobacco use (except in the workplace), membership in an employee organization, or other protected classifications or non-merit factors.
At Pact, we recognize your impact, offer you opportunities and support your total well-being. Our comprehensive benefit offerings may include healthcare, retirement (8.8% to 13% based on service tenure) and savings plans, paid time off, disability and life insurance programs, learning and development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections .
With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. Pact seeks an environment free from COVID-19 and prefers all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Attestation of vaccination status will be required for employment with Pact. Unvaccinated employees may be subject to additional health and safety requirements to include any federal, state and/or client restrictions.
