Consultant to Evaluate Plan Intl’s Partnership Management Processes Full Time

INTRODUCTION

Plan International Nigeria is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International Nigeria remains committed to establishing and maintaining strong, accountable, and impactful partnerships that drive change for children and girls across the country. Our collaboration ensures mutual benefit of skills, knowledge and resources from both partners as we work together so that our voice and the voices of children and young people are heard.

As part of our continuous efforts to strengthen collaboration with partners, Plan International Nigeria is in the process of evaluating its partnership management processes to determine if its goals of building better partnerships are being met and to ascertain if the partnership processes are functioning as intended. It is expected that this evaluation will inform decision-making, guide continuous improvement efforts and identify barriers and their facilitators. It is also expected that a better framework for partner engagement will be designed to strengthen the partnership process to build local capacities, given the global localisation agenda.

Plan International Nigeria’s new focus as a National entity requires working more intentionally with partners in a long-term relationship. This requires building relationships and assessing lessons learned from working with past and current partners to improve our partnership work.

PURPOSE OF WORK

The overall purpose of this work is to evaluate our partnership management processes through and end to end evaluation, track progress towards our goal of building better partnership, identify areas of improvement, enhance programme quality, learn from past experience and come up with new ways of working in partnerships with defined roles and responsibilities.

SCOPE OF WORK

Specifically, the consultant is expected to facilitate the following processes:

• Undertake an end-to-end review of the current partnership process in Plan International with consultation of the functional unit to understand Plan International Nigeria partnership processes and approaches.
• Undertake a review of the partnership experience with relevant partners and staff
• Conduct a desk review of relevant documents, including Plan International Building Better Partnerships manuals, Partnership Strategy, Localisation strategy, Partnership Framework, Country Strategy, Due diligence and other assessment tools, partner’s contracting template, and other relevant documents as agreed with Plan International Nigeria.
• Produce a final report incorporating all feedback and recommendations to improve the Plan International Nigeria partnership management process.

OBJECTIVES

In view of this, Plan International Nigeria is seeking the service of an experienced consultant with expertise in programme and partnership management, specifically in areas of organizational capacity assessment, with an established, clear view of building better strategic partners for the organization.

The consultant shall:

• Review Plan International Nigeria Partnership processes and approaches.
• Measure the result of our partnership work against its intended goals and achievements.
• Identify specific skill gaps amongst Plan International staff working with partners
• Identify barriers in working with implementing partners and facilitators
• Recommend avenues/approaches for continuous improvement to achieve effective and optimal partnership for the organisation.

KEY EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• Facilitate a desk review process
• Facilitate a partnership review meeting to get feedback from relevant partners and project staff to improve our partnership work.
• Participate in regular meetings to discuss and agree with Plan International Nigeria at critical decision gates to ensure the work is properly coordinated.
• Keep notes of meetings and submit a progress report on the process.
• Internal review of report by programme and partnership unit and compiled version.
• Submit all documents used for this consultancy to Plan International Nigeria at the end of the work.
• Submission of the final consultancy report of all processes to the Plan International Country Office Abuja.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, AND COMPETENCIES

Experience:

• At least five years’ experience in the non-governmental sector undertaking detailed organisational capacity assessments for international and local NGO/CSO partners.
• Familiarity with the use of relevant OCA tools for CSOs
• Proven and demonstrable experience in undertaking end-to-end process reviews

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in spoken and written English is essential.

COMPETENCIES

• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work under pressure, with minimal supervision and distance;
• Demonstrated initiative, tact, and a high sense of responsibility and discretion;
• Strong teamwork skills;
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral;
• Strong computer literacy and data analytical proficiency.

The consultant will be expected to sign and abide by Plan International values, the compliance statement and key policies.

ABOUT PLAN INTERNATIONAL NIGERIA

Plan International Values

Any organisation or individual working with Plan International Nigeria must share, agree, and commit to the following values:

1. We strive for lasting impact: We strive to achieve a significant and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people and to secure equality for girls. We challenge ourselves to be bold, courageous, focused, and innovative.
2. We are open and accountable: We create a climate of trust inside and outside the organization by being open, honest, and transparent. We hold ourselves and others to account for the decisions we make and for our impact on others while doing what we say we will do.
3. We work well together: We succeed by working effectively with others, inside and outside the organisation, including our sponsors and donors. We actively support our colleagues, helping them to achieve their goals. We come together to create and implement solutions in our teams, across Plan International, with children, girls, young people, communities, and our partners.
4. We are inclusive and empowering: We respect all people, appreciate differences, and challenge inequality in our programmes and our workplace. We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives. We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential.

ETHICS AND CHILD PROTECTION

Plan International Nigeria places a high premium on CHILD PROTECTION issues in all its working relationships with its partners and associates and mandates all its working partners and associates to adhere to its CHILD PROTECTION Policy.

As such, the activity must ensure appropriate, safe, non-discriminatory participation; a process of free and un-coerced consent and withdrawal; and confidentiality and anonymity of participants. Consultants are required to provide a statement within their proposal on how they will ensure ethics and child protection in the development process. This must also include consideration of any risks related to the activity and how these will be mitigated.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION/CHILD PROTECTION

It is understood and agreed that the Consultant shall, during and after the effective period of the contract, treat as confidential and not divulge, unless authorised in writing by Plan International Nigeria, any information obtained in the course of the performance of the Contract. Information will be made available for the consultant on a need-to-know basis. Any necessary field visits must be budgeted for in your proposal. Plan International Nigeria staff, under the coordination of the Partnership Advocacy and Resource Mobilisation Manager, will support the consultant in facilitating all necessary engagements required by the Consultant. The selected consultant will commit to respecting Plan’s Child Protection Policy to prevent any harm to participating children and youth.

ANTI-CORRUPTION

The Consultant and partners declare and guarantee that no offer, gift payment, consideration, or benefit of any kind, which constitutes an illegal or corrupt practice, has been or will be made to anyone by the Consultant either directly or indirectly, as an inducement or reward for the award or execution of this agreement.

The Consultant declares and guarantees that neither the Consultant nor partners or associates, temporary or permanent, would be involved in the implementation of this agreement:

1. Have been convicted during the three (3) years before the submission of their proposals for this project, by a court of law in Nigeria or any other jurisdiction for an offence involving bribery or corruption.
2. Are under sanction, for an offence involving bribery or corruption, imposed by a government, a governmental organisation, or a development organisation providing development assistance.

ANTI-TERRORISM

The Consultant or partners declare and guarantee that the funds provided by Plan International Nigeria for the service shall not be knowingly used to benefit terrorist groups as defined in the criminal code of Nigeria or individual members of those groups or for terrorist activities either directly or indirectly.

WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY

Plan International Nigeria has a Code of Conduct including a Whistle Blower Policy (attached) and encourages its entire staff and associates to “whistle blow” (raise legitimate concerns about violation of the Code of Conduct without fear of recrimination in the course of their engagement with Plan International Nigeria).

Further information and all relevant annexes can be assessed via this link: Evaluation of Plan Partnership Process

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