Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Search for Common Ground is seeking a consultant or consulting team to evaluate lessons from crisis-related programs and broader fields to develop a transferable crisis management and response framework. The role will produce a guidance document, tools and templates, validate findings with staff, and deliver training on the finalized resources.
Responsibilities
- Review those lessons, plus lessons, as appropriate, from the wider fields of conflict management, crisis response and communications, organizational psychology, and leadership development - plus other related fields at the selected contractor’s discretion - to generalize those lessons in such a way that helps other sectors at the center of conflict know what to expect and provide approaches for response
- Use those insights to update existing project resources into generalized, transferable guidance and resources appropriate to multiple contexts
- Collaborate with CG-USA program managers to gather their insights and validate findings, and be supervised by a Senior Specialist
- Inception report, including review of project documents and literature review
- 1 90-minute validation session of initial findings with CG-USA staff
- Drafting of a new guidance manual, providing a framework of, - What does it look like to be a sector in crisis?: Diagnostic and remedy - What are the transferable lessons from the sectors CG-USA has engaged? -Tools and templates
- 1 90-minute training on the finalized resource to CG-USA staf
- Comprehensive and systematic inquiry: Consultant should make the most of the existing information and full range of stakeholders available at the time of the review. Consultant should conduct systematic, data-based inquiries. They should communicate their methods and approaches accurately and in sufficient detail to allow others to understand, interpret and critique their work. They should make clear the limitations of the review and its results
- Competence: Consultant should possess the abilities and skills and experience appropriate to undertake the tasks proposed and should practice within the limits of their professional training and competence
- Honesty and integrity: Consultant should be transparent with the contractor/constituent about: any conflict of interest, any change made in the negotiated project plan and the reasons why those changes were made, any risk that certain procedures or activities produce misleading review information
- Respect for people: Consultant respect the security, dignity and self-worth of respondents, program participants. Consultant has the responsibility to be sensitive to and respect differences amongst participants in culture, religion, gender, disability, age and ethnicity
Skills
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken)
- Instructional Design: Demonstrated ability and skills for structuring content logically to teach or advise others in the form of training materials and/or SOPs
- Technical Writing & Communication: Experience simplifying complex, jargon-heavy processes into plain and accessible language
- Subject Matter Expertise: Direct experience working as or closely with practitioners on peacebuilding, crisis management, or similar work in the United States
- Graphic and Document Design: This capacity may be outsourced, but must be included in contract price
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