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Duties/Responsibilities
Global Learning and Development Unit SMT Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of Learning and Development’s Senior Management team, and contribute to its strategy development and establishment of L&D priorities connected to IRCs Strategy 100 goals.
• Lead a core L&D global initiative (e.g. Onboarding, Performance, Mentorship, Sponsorship) that is aligned to strategic L&D goals.
• Influence, advocate and develop strategies for creating funding sources to support the execution of L&D ambitions across the organization.

CRRD-Specific Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of CRRD People & Culture leadership team, and contribute to its strategy development and establishment of L&D priorities connected to IRCs Strategy 100 goals.
• Manage and implement L&D-related programs, initiatives and strategy across CRRD’s Regions, while providing advice and guidance on how programs should flex and be tailored to varying contexts.
• Contribute and co-develop Talent Management programs designed to equip, engage, assess and retain CRRD staff and leaders.
• Design and implement talent review and succession planning programs that will identify diverse, high performing talent for achieving organizational outcomes. Collect, analyze and maintain data to inform targeted leadership development and create customized development plans.
• Identify leadership competencies for specific roles, coordinate training programs, and other development opportunities to enhance leadership effectiveness.
• Oversee nominations, monitor completion rates, and nurture post training adoption of marquee IRC development programs such as Navigator supervisor training, or Talent Development career workshops.
• Support the development and launch diversity, equity, and inclusion learning and development initiatives in collaboration with the Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.

Supervisory Responsibilities & Working Relationships

• Reports to the Sr. Director of Learning and Development
• Partners closely with (and dotted line to) the Senior Director, P&C for CRRD
• Collaborate with colleagues across the People & Culture function including all CRRD Regional P&C Directors, Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (GEDI), HR Operations, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Experience and others to operationalize programming and achieve meaningful impact.
• Work closely with CRRD Leadership at all levels.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in both talent management and development, driven by curiosity, empathy, and purpose of work.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing talent management programs that seek to elevate both traditional and non-traditional views of talent that have resulted in measurable impact.
• Proven expertise in Organization Effectiveness (OE) strategies, including organizational assessments, cultural transformation, and performance optimization.
• Executive coaching experience a plus.
• Global acumen and strong cultural competency.
• Demonstrated experience in engaging and consulting employees on topics related to career development with a dedicated focus on employee experience.
• Excellent collaboration skills working in a complex ecosystem, demonstrating an ability to take initiative, bring focus, problem solve, and balance both administrative and high value creating work.
• Background includes diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts that result in a diverse workforce at all levels.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse partners.
• Experience with Workday or other HRIS.
• Advanced skills in analytical thinking, problem solving, executive relationship management, organizational change management, and leading groups of functions toward collaborative decisions.
• English fluency. Proficiency in an additional core IRC language (French, Arabic, Spanish) is preferred.

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Purpose

• The purpose of this individual consultancy is to support the organizational capacity strengthening.
• Specifically, this consultant will support IRC grantees to conduct a comprehensive Organizational and Technical Capacity Self-Assessment using a co-designed self-assessment tool; and support the IRC grantees to implement the organizational capacity strengthening activities, coordinating the process with sub-consultants and internal consortium partners.
• The tool will help them identify their organizational strengths, challenges, and gaps and use the findings to develop comprehensive organizational capacity improvement plans.

Deliverables

• The consultant's deliverables for this consultancy are as follows:
• Methodology and Work Plan;
• Capacity Sharing offer strategy;
• Tailored and Contextualized Capacity Assessment Tools;
• Online meetings with grantees;
• Individualized capacity sharing plans for grantees;
• Coordination with country level consultants;
• Facilitators manual;

Minimum Qualifications:

Qualifications and Expertise

• The ideal consultant should possess the following qualifications:
• An advanced degree in International Development, business administration, management, education, social sciences, gender studies or a related field.
• Proven experience in conducting and implementing Organizational Capacity Assessments especially using the facilitated self-assessment methodology preferably for local organizations.
• Clear understanding of feminist and women’s rights organizations and feminist movements
• Experience working with feminist movements and grassroots organizations across Africa
• Strong knowledge of the local organizations landscape especially in Africa.
• Experience in assessment tools development and customization to fit diverse contexts.
• Knowledge of best practices in capacity building and organizational development
• Ability to develop standardized processes and quality assurance tools and mechanisms
• Instructional design skills and experience in developing training materials and manuals
• Ability to distill key insights and recommendations from assessment processes
• Experience in compiling and synthesizing data and information.
• Proficiency in online meeting platforms, collaborative tools, facilitation and participatory methodologies.
• Ability to develop engaging session plans and agendas and experience in designing and delivering training materials and capacity enhancement interventions for local organizations.
• Fluency in English and French is mandatory- (the ability to communicate effectively in both languages is necessary to collaborate with Consultants and local organizations across all target Countries Reporting and Coordination