Partnerships Incubator Djibouti Market Research Consultant

Position: Djibouti Market Research ConsultantAnticipated Start Date: September 1, 2020Location: VirtualProject: New Partnerships Initiative Incubator (Partnerships Incubator)Contract Duration: September 1, 2020 - November 30, 2020Project Director: Donna Vincent Roa, Ph.D., ABC, CDPM?About Kaizen The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally-driven, organizational, and institutional performance improvements, and shift the development model into one that is bottom-up and ongoing. We leverage existing knowledge along with new technologies and innovative business models to support local reform that is sustained through market forces.The Kaizen Company is seeking to hire up to two short-term Consultant positions for the USAID-funded New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) Incubator (Partnerships Incubator).About the Partnerships IncubatorThe USAID/New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) Incubator is designed to target the combined skills, innovation, networks, relationships, and resources of an expanded and diversified partner base. Currently, 75 implementing partners deploy approximately 80% of USAID?s obligations. Expanding USAID?s partner base will bring increased innovation, cost-efficiency, and development impact?which translates to greater effectiveness for USAID programming and faster and more sustainable progress for partner countries on their journey to self-reliance. USAID seeks to partner with new and underutilized local and locally established organizations, including faith-based, community, and civil society groups but recognizes that there may be barriers to successful collaboration. With the support of the Partnerships Incubator, USAID will inform and equip potential partners to more effectively design and implement successful development programs.Position Summary The Consultant(s) will work closely with the Incubator Internal Services Director and other team members to deliver a partner landscape analysis (market research). The Consultant(s) will be responsible for researching, compiling, analyzing, and reporting on 1) a range of local civil society and private sector organizations in Djibouti, with a particular emphasis on education, health, and gender equality and women?s empowerment, and 2) the history of and opportunity for the client and local organizations to engage with the Government of Djibouti, specifically the Ministries of Education & Professional Training; Health; and Promotion of Women & Family Welfare & Social Affairs, and the modalities for such engagement. The Consultant(s) will ensure that final work products are error-free, consistent, and accurate. The level of effort for the position is up to 325 hours.Main roles and responsibilities include:

Define the approach and establish a work plan for conducting a partner landscape analysis (market research) project.

Perform the landscape analysis of local organizations based on client requirements.

Sectors will include education; health; and gender equality and women's empowerment.

Organizations will include civil society organizations and private sector companies.

Ministries will include Education & Professional Training; Health; and Promotion of Women & Family Welfare & Social Affairs.

Ensure the accuracy of the content and verify the accuracy of all referenced information.

Meet a tight deadline based on client needs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, communications, humanities, social sciences, international development, or a related field.

Must be fluent in written and spoken English and French.

Must have professional familiarity with the Horn of Africa region, preferably Djibouti.

The ideal candidate will have served clients or completed projects in Djibouti or is local to Djibouti or the region.

5-7 years of experience in consulting within the international development sector.

Detail-oriented, analytically-minded, and multi-tasker.

USAID experience a bonus, but not required.

Application DetailsStart Date: As early as September 1st or soonerHours: 325Initial Term: 3 monthsTo ApplyIf you are interested in this position and have most or all of the desired qualifications, please submit a resume, a cover letter explaining key qualifications and availability, and the names and contact information for three references (professional and/or academic) by Friday, August 21, 2020. The Kaizen Company may hire either one or two consultants for this opening.Here at The Kaizen Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. The Kaizen Company is an equal opportunity employer.