Strategic Plan Review and Development at Kakenya’s Dream

Role and deliverables of the consultant

• Under the direct supervision of the Country Manager and support from the board, the consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:

Phase 1- Assessment and Diagnostic Stage

This Preliminary Assessment will provide the team conducting the Strategic Review with insight into the organization's current state, i.e., KD. Key elements for review include:

• Overall organizational review (which will also aid in understanding bottlenecks and successes in service delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness issues based on programs). Also, the review must assess the current strategic framework for KD and develop proposals for high-level business process changes.
• Analyze the KD’s Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats (SCOT Analysis) in relation to its current operations and performance.
• Human Resources (Current and future needs)
• Information technology (as part of the ease of doing business and the creation of efficiencies)
• Finances and grant management (including general resource management, Workplans- including target setting (e.g., review of performance framework for the ongoing programs that identifies key outputs and outcomes, performance indicators, and targets)
• Service Delivery

Phase 1 deliverables:

• Inception report with detailed workplan, tools for review, desk review
• Preliminary assessment report based on the current strategy

Phase 2- Development of the New Costed Strategic Plan

KD will expect the selected consultant(s) to:

• Based on the assessment and feedback in phase 1, facilitate strategy development workshops and support KD in drafting the corresponding strategy document**.**
  • Deliverables: preparation and facilitation of strategy development workshops; drafting support on the strategy as required by KD.
• Ensure that the final strategic framework clearly identifies KD’s impact ambitions and provides a stronger basis (key impact ambitions and indicators) for stronger monitoring and communication of results.
  • Deliverables: finalization of the strategy based on KD feedback; co-development of the results framework part of the strategy; identification of how M&E will be performed at the strategic level and budget.
• Help KD identify how it should organize itself (structure/division of organizational roles) to deliver on the strategy optimally.
  • Deliverables: Facilitate the development of an operational plan that charts out how the organization will deliver on its strategy (approaches, structure, capacities) and clarifies the organizational division of roles and responsibilities.

Timeframe & coordination

• This assignment is expected to be completed by March 2024 and should start in early November 2023, with the goal of finishing phase 1 in mid-January.
• The consultant(s) will work closely with the KD staff, who will supervise the consultant’s work, progress, and deliverables. The progress will be assessed on a regular basis so that any required adaptation can be agreed upon in a timely manner.

Consultancy Competencies, Experience, and Skill Requirements:

Individual consultants and a team of consultants possessing the qualifications outlined below are invited to apply.

• Demonstrated track record of successfully facilitating participatory strategy development.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating organizational development of non-profit organizations, including in relation to the development/revision of organizational structures
• An understanding of the context (socio-political context)
• Familiarity with KD’s thematic areas of focus (Health, Education, Young People Programming, human rights advocacy). Program design and methodological experience in relation to KD’s fields of work will be considered assets.
• Experience with the development of results and resource frameworks
• Experience with donor relations will be considered an asset.