Civil Society Organization Strategic Plan Development Consultancy EoI (Ongata Rongai)

Request for Expression of Interest

Required for a Civil Society Organization based in Ongata Rongai, a consultant for technical support in the development of a Strategic Plan.

Strategic Plan Development Consultancy

Specific objectives of the assignment include the following:

• To review program implementation so far, and operating environment benchmarked against other Organizations, with a view of assessing results achieved, lessons learnt, gaps and challenges faced in implementation and making recommendations to inform the Strategic Plan;
• To develop a comprehensive inception report including the lessons learnt from implementation of the current Program, a work plan and tools and templates for data collection;
• To collect and document relevant information to be used in the development of a new strategic plan for the organization.
• To organize and facilitate consultative meetings with organization’s staff, board members and partners aimed at collecting information for the development of the Strategic Plan;
• To develop a three year strategic plan (2013-2016) for the organization.

Scope of Work
 

Work closely with the organization’s team to develop the Strategic Plan 2013-2016 through a process that includes, among others:

• Reviewing relevant documents including policy documents in place, and program documents;
• Designing relevant tools for the internal and external assessments;
• Interviewing board, staff and partners
• Carrying out  in-depth analysis of organization’s capacity and approaches (especially as a Network) and proposing areas of improvement
• Facilitating feedback meetings on the assessments and in-depth analysis of organizational capacity development approaches to identify strengths, gaps and strategic drivers and goals
• Facilitating a review of  vision, mission, core values and strategic objectives
• Facilitating formulation of the strategy that will guide implementation of the strategic objectives
• Identifying implications of the proposed strategic objectives on the organization
• Facilitating the development of performance measurements and implementation plan of organization’s strategic objectives

Deliverables
 

The key output of this assignment will be the 2013-2016 strategic plan. Other deliverables include:

• Inception Report (detailing work plan and including tools and templates)
• Evaluation Report on Policy and Programs including successes, lessons learned and strategic issues
• Draft Strategic Plan
• Annual operational Plan and Budget
• Final Strategic Plan
• A Process Report (a report that documents how the strategy was developed)

If you are suitable for the assignment, send your  CV and daily rate to hr.wlrn@gmail.com with the subject “STRATEGIC PLAN CONSULTANT” on or before Friday 26th April, 2013