Consultancy: Strategic Plan Development

The consultant/ consultancy will work under the direct guidance of the Senior Management Team (SMT) of FORUM-ASIA. The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Programme will serve as the primary contact point.

The consultant will be asked to lead on the following activities:

• Review and adaptation of existing programme strategic guide, recent evaluation reports and theory of change templates and finalising an overall strategy template in the inception report of the consultancy.
• Adaptation and application of modern day strategy development tools and methodologies such as stakeholder analysis, power and gender analysis, environmental and climate change screening and mapping tools etc.
• Ensuring a participatory and inclusive process with involvement of all stakeholders.
• Ensuring privacy and non-disclosure of sensitive data and information.

Duration:

• The consultancy will be for a period of 4-5 months with a start date in the first week of May 2021.

Essential Criteria: skills and experience required:

The consultant/ consultancy should have the following individual/ collective skills and qualifications:

• A consultant or a team of consultants with advanced degree in the field of human rights, international relations/ affairs, or related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience in the areas of human rights, justice, peace and
• sustainable development in Asia. Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience of using a ToC framework approach of developing strategies preferably for NGOs working on human rights.
• Demonstrated experience of designing and implementing participatory research methodologies.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of using Results Based Management principles in monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Ability to consolidate and triangulate data and derive meaningful information from multiple sources.
• Flexible, organized, and ability to perform in high stress environments.
• Excellent writing and editing skills (Written and oral fluency in English is a requirement).

Desirable skills and experience; Preferable

• A consulting firm registered and based in Thailand.
• A diverse team representing a range of Asian, Gender, Racial and linguistic identities.
• Firms and/or individuals with teams based or having access to sub-regions such as East Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.

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