WASH Expert Facilitator at SoCha

Background: To support USAID/Kenya East Africa seeks to advance what self-reliance means for Kenya and the broader region.

To support USAID/KEA to align programming toward promoting self-reliance outcomes, SoCha LLC implements a two-year (optional third year) mission support program to enable USAID to pivot into this journey to self-reliance (J2SR).

The Mission Support for the Journey toSelf-Reliance Pivot (MSP) supports USAID/KEA to understand context, align programs, collect data, understand complexity, and apply learning to program adaptation.

To better understand and develop innovative solutions with public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit partners USAID/KEA released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) in November 2020.

This BAA is a competitive and collaborative process that guides how USAID will co-create activities in western Kenya to address water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenges. Local and international partners will be invited to participate in a series of workshops to be held in February 2021.

USAID requests the assistance of the Mission Support for the Journey to Self-Reliance Pivot (MSP) to work with USAID/KEA to design and execute two multi-day virtual co-creation workshops with stakeholders.

Scope of Work: The MSP program, implemented by SoCha LLC, seeks a consultant to serve as a short-term co-creation facilitator to support USAID WASH activity co-creation workshops. MSP seeks to engage a WASH Expert Facilitator to collaborate with MSP staff and USAID/KEA to design, plan, and execute two separate multi-day virtual co-creation workshops to address WASH challenges in western Kenya.

Roles and Responsibilities

To plan and execute two separate multi-day virtual co-creation workshops the WASH Expert Facilitator will collaborate with MSP staff to

• Support the USAID/KEA WASH team to develop and finalize two multi-day workshop agenda;
• Prepare detailed facilitation plans for the workshops, and continuously update facilitation plans as the workshops progress;
• Prepare workshop materials, including workshop session slides, instructions, participant worksheets;
• Consolidate workshop presentations from participants and produce overall workshop slide decks, including integration of Mentimeter or similar participation tools where appropriate;
• Prepare and host virtual workshop meeting spaces (share links with USAID);
• Facilitate the overall workshops, including question and answer sessions and group discussions, control break out rooms;
• Assist MSP and the workshop rapporteur to gather appropriate workshop outputs as required to assemble the workshop proceedings report, and
• Conduct two after-action reviews to reflect on lessons learned and advise USAID on future co-creation workshops.

Deliverables for each multi-day

• Workshop materials: slides, worksheets
• Workshop session facilitation
• Workshop after-action review

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
• Experience designing and facilitating activity or project design workshops preferred; experience designing and facilitating donor and stakeholder workshops required.
• Experience working with USAID.
• Experience in East Africa, Kenya preferred.
• Understanding of USAID program cycle and USAID activity design processes.
• Experience working with and securing sensitive information.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field, Master’s preferred.
• Five years or more of professional experience working in the development sector preferred.
• Experience designing and facilitating virtual workshops and meetings is highly preferred.