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16 Sep 2022

Capacity Strengthening Advisor at Palladium International

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Job Description


Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value.  We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.

Project Overview and Role:

The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) Expanding Health Partnerships (NPI EXPAND) project is a global five-year (2019-2024) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project that supports locally driven efforts to increase the availability and utilization of high-quality health services. In line with USAID’s localization agenda, NPI EXPAND invests in new and underutilized local partners (NUPs) and strengthens their capacity to strategize, plan, and implement programs with USAID funds. Enhanced participation of capable local organizations to increase demand for and to deliver high-quality, high impact services will enable governments to meet crucial goals equitably and sustainably. NPI EXPAND also catalyzes opportunities to scale up innovative interventions by strengthening the capacity of NUPs with varying levels of capabilities and exposure to USAID.

The USAID Ethiopia Mission is engaging the NPI EXPAND project to support their Empowered Communities for Better Health (ECBH) project, which aims to empower communities to take action and ownership over their health and nutrition and drive a cycle of responsive and accountable service delivery. Moving away from a supply/demand model of health systems development, the ECBH emphasizes the need to engage communities toward improved health services and outcomes. This involves tapping civil society organizations, networks (e.g., women, men, youth), professional associations (e.g., midwives), religious institutions, and community elders and other community structures (e.g., IDDIRs) toward better health. The project will support interventions that engage and/or leverage CSOs and community structures in social accountability interventions toward more responsive and higher quality FP/MNCH services in Amhara, SNNP, Sidama and South-west Ethiopia Peoples region.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Specifically, the Capacity Strengthening Advisor will be responsible for the following tasks:

  • Identify a highly capable local organization with a fair baseline organizational capacity to be able to grow as a local capacity development provider organization
  • Facilitate baseline capacity assessments to identify and prioritize capacity needs and co-develop capacity strengthening action plans with sub-awardees.
  • Collaborate with MEL staff to set capacity strengthening indicators and monitor changes in the capacity and performance of the organizations over time.
  • Collaborate with the Country Team Lead and NPI EXPAND’s Project Management Unit to recruit consultants and firms to provide capacity strengthening services.
  • Supervise consultants and firms providing capacity strengthening services to ensure quality services and contractual deliverables.
  • Directly support various capacity strengthening activities for CSOs in the NPI EXPAND-Ethiopia project.
  • Support the implementation of effective, innovative capacity strengthening approaches, tools, and methodologies for grantees.
  • Ensure that capacity strengthening approaches lead to performance change; troubleshoot and advise or provide guidance as needed to help ensure project goals and objectives are achieved in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to the development of high-quality, standardized, capacity strengthening materials for use and adaptation across NPI EXPAND project.
  • Document best practices on designing capacity strengthening interventions, methodologies, and performance measurements.
  • Contribute to knowledge building and sharing by participating in local, national, and international fora and events including social media, webinars, conferences, and meetings.
  • Contribute to the preparation of NPI EXPAND’s annual workplan, progress reports, and other technical write-ups, including capacity strengthening case studies and success stories.
  • Review concept notes or proposals for identifying up to two CSOs with a fair capacity to be a centre of excellence for strengthening the capacity of other locally established organizations or CSOs.
  • Contribute to new business development and proposal writing, as requested.
  • Other duties as assigned under the NPI EXPAND project.

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum of first degree in international development, program management, social Science, or other relevant field from an accredited institution.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree is preferred.
  • At least 5 years of relevant, demonstrated experience in designing and implementing capacity strengthening activities.
  • At least 5 years of experience conducting organizational capacity assessments and supporting organizations with various levels of performance to create and drive capacity strengthening and performance improvement plans.
  • Experience working in Family Planning/Reproductive Health or Maternal, New-born, and Child Health
  • In-depth knowledge of best practices in sustainable capacity development design, methodologies and performance measurement.
  • Excellent process facilitation skills, with an ability to design and implement skills-building workshops and other capacity strengthening approaches for a diverse audience.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills. Experience working with diverse and multicultural teams necessary.
  • Experience working on USAID-funded projects is highly desired.
  • Written and spoken fluency in English is required.

Period and Location of Performance

Period of performance is one (1) year, from October 1, 2022- September 30, 2023, with the possibility of extension. Location for this engagement is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Only Ethiopian nationals currently residing in Ethiopia will be considered for this position.





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Closing Date : 30 September. 2022





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