Call for Proposals- Project Management Coaching Consultant at Akili Dada

Scope of work

• Akili Dada is seeking to engage a consultant who will deliver tailored – coaching and practical sessions on but not limited to:
• Project Initiation and planning
• Project scope definition, objectives, design and concept development
• Stakeholder identification (process and tools), analysis and engagement management
• Creating realistic project timelines, milestones and work breakdown structures
• Project Execution
• Team leadership and coordination.
• Resource allocation and management
• Risk identification, assessment and mitigation
•  Monitoring and control
• Performance metrics, Progress tracking (tools and systems) and reporting
• Quality management
• Financial oversight and budget monitoring
• Project Communication
• Effective team communication (internal and external team communication
• frameworks)
• Status and progress reporting
• Stakeholder engagement and updates
• Project closure
• Deliverable handover
• Lessons learned documentation
• Project evaluation and close-out reporting

Deliverables

• Develop the assignment budget and work plan on how to conduct coaching for Akili Dada staff.
• Hold an inception meeting with Akili Dada staff to go through the Terms of Reference for the assignment; inception report required.
• Facilitated coaching sessions (physically/virtually) for selected Akili Dada staff with practical tools and templates.
• Progress review reports - provide an assessment report outlining findings and recommendations – summarize session outputs and observed gaps.
• Post – Coaching Support - Support in implementing recommendations post the sessions, for a limited follow–up period.

Qualifications

• The ideal consulting company should possess the following qualifications:
• Extensive experience in Project Management Training and Coaching of 5+ years and above especially with NGO’s or social impact organizations.
• Certification in Project Management is added advantage,
• Excellent strategic thinking, interpersonal and planning skills.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and to contextualize global project management
• frameworks to local feminist and youth – led organizational contexts.