OPPORTUNITY
The Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is looking for a consultant with technical expertise in Digital Financial Technology Solutions for Inclusion.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) project is the new five-year, USAID-funded Resilience Learning Activity (RLA). The activity supports USAID and its resilience partners with learning, collaboration, and research around resilience issues in Ethiopia. RLA serves as a “learning sidecar” to USAID/Ethiopia and its implementing partners, helping them to better understand what relief and development interventions can help make households, communities, and systems more resilient to increasingly persistent shocks and stresses. RLA provides support with learning processes and frameworks, development and consolidation of learning and research agendas, and support to resilience partners for adaptive management, results measurement, and the increased integration of systems thinking and rapid feedback into their respective toolboxes.
ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL INCENTIVES
At Environmental Incentives (EI), our purpose is to create the conditions for human and natural communities to thrive. We do this by helping our partners improve the performance of conservation and development programs. Our clients trust us to design and support implementation of programs that (1) use evidence to develop effective strategies within complex systems, (2) center local stakeholder experiences and facilitate collective action, and (3) produce results that support learning about what works. Environmental Incentives is a certified B Corporation with offices located in Washington, DC, South Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Nairobi, and Lima (pending registration). Our remote staff and consultants are based in multiple states within the United States, and across five continents.
CONSULTANCY DESCRIPTION
The Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is looking for a Digital Finance Consultant with experience working on improving access to finance for poor households, women and youth. The Consultant will facilitate and provide technical inputs into a Community of Practice (CoPr) that RLA is organizing to explore technology driven financial products that improve access to finance and build on existing VESA experiences. This may include field testing and documentation of learning that emerge. The approach aims to aid the resilience community in addressing issues related to effective access to finance disaster and better sequence, layering and integration among RLA partners.
The ideal candidate for this position will have strong knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, demonstrated abilities to facilitate groups in learning processes, and be capable of providing direction and technical support to the CoPr. The financial instruments and digital technology community of practice activity is established and will continue for several months into 2024.
The consultant will work closely with the RLA team in Ethiopia to support the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPr in organizing and facilitating CoPr learning events together with the RLA team and CoPr members. The consultant will also provide technical support such as leading technical discussions with the CoPrs, defining the learning process for the CoPr. The consultant will document each process of the CoPr activities such as event report, After Action Review summary, next steps and points, lessons learned, among others.
Following the conclusion of the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPr activity, the consultant will prepare one generic report in addition to each event report. The consultant will hand over all knowledge products generated including presentation meeting notes, reports photos, and videos during the period of this contract.
This consultancy will be up to 20 days with a possibility of extension to 40 days. The period of performance will be from October 2023 to April 2024.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES
Convening and Facilitating the Digital Finance Community of Practice for USAID Partners
Lead the learning activities for CoPr including the design and implementation of the evidence generation and analysis
Support the adaptive management for CoPrs
Monitoring and measuring progress and effectiveness of the Digital Technology and Financial Instruments CoPrs
DELIVERABLES
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Legally authorized to work in Ethiopia with no restrictions.
BASE STATION
The position is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your application. We will review CVs on a rolling basis and contact qualified applicants for additional information.
Read Full Description