Capacity Building Advisor

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess organizational and capacity development needs of current and prospective IPs, analyze findings to understand root causes, and collaborate with partners to formulate action plans;
• Develop organizational capacity assessment tools;
• Develop curriculum, provide individual start-up foundational technical assistance services and coaching to USAID identified local partners, and manage technical assistance services via consultants and Kenyan firms with appropriate expertise on finances and managing funds, governance structures, organizational policy formulation, managing sub-awards, tracking and reporting on third party costs contributions, human resource systems and practices, information technology systems, enterprise resource planning and systems, procurement, systematic performance monitoring and reporting results, and public and private partnership networks;
• Support planning and execution of Non-U.S. Organization Pre-Award Surveys and implementing partner procedures/expenditure reviews;
• Provide capacity building support services to empower and enfranchise local actors and local organizations;
• Liaise with USAID support and technical offices in relation to work requests;
• Identify and scope opportunities to deliver capacity building services to local organizations;
• Monitor the progress of capacity building activities.

Qualifications

• At least 10-15 years of experience with capacity building, organization development and change management in fields such as risk management, finance, compliance, procurement, governance, HR, or other related fields;
• Preferred experience working for or collaborating with audit, accounting, consulting, or business services firms;
• Master’s degree in a strategy or related field;
• Excellent communication skills in both English and Kiswahili;
• Experience living and working in the East Africa region.