Full-Time
Request for Consultant: Governance Action Hub
Accountability and Citizen Engagement
Posted on 4/18/2024
Results for Development
201-500 employees
E-learning and support in health, education, nutrition
Consulting
Social Impact
Senior
Remote in USA
Required Skills
Communications
Public Policy
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD degree in Business Management/Administration, Public Policy, Public Administration, Developmental Studies, or a relevant field
- 10+ years of experience in governance, accountability, innovation, democracy, energy transition, or related fields
- Knowledge of innovative approaches to governance
- Facilitation skills and experience with participatory methodologies
- Fluent in Spanish and English
- Knowledge of natural resource governance issues in Colombia
- Based in Colombia
- Ability to build strong relationships across sectors
- Self-motivated and able to work as part of a team and independently
- Experience establishing and managing strong networks of stakeholders
- Experience with project management and reporting
- Organized and able to balance competing priorities
- Solutions-oriented
- Diplomatic communication style
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the implementation of MOUs with government officials
- Design 3-5 pilots around Alternative Energy Communities at the local level
- Capture the testimony of local voices engaged in transitions
- Coordinate learning and evidence collection methods
- Carry out high-level dialogue with government officials
- Oversee the design of a two-way learning and solutions system
- Identify additional entry points for GAH
- Support the publication and sharing of material for allies and partners
- Support the development of analytical material on governance around energy transition processes
- Domestic travel to locations where the Governance Action Hub is working
- Represent the program at selected events and meetings in Bogota
Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too.
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance our mission. Diversity—of ideas, identities, perspectives and backgrounds—is vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other in continuously building a better R4D.
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Project Background
The Governance Action Hub seeks to explore what is possible in governance action and reform through coalitions for change, connecting people, organizations and networks, and complementing or strengthening existing efforts. In resource-rich and non-resource-rich settings alike, we see a knowledge gap on how to build effective coalitions for systems-wide change, particularly at the local, sub-national level.
At the Action Hub, we understand governance as the ecosystem needed to achieve common, desirable, societal goals. The rethinking of our strategies to pursue a better governance environment requires the agency of local stakeholders, engaging them in the solutions of challenges they face. We do this through strengthening collective action strategies, elevating and supporting local stakeholder ideas, promoting cross-learning, and facilitating the coordination of local and global action.
At the country level, the Action Hub fosters coordination with national or international partners to support radical collaboration, elevate voices, and support problem-solving by testing solutions proposed by local stakeholders. At the global level, the Action Hub aims to progressively build a global community that promotes exchange and cross-learning between and among local and global level actors, leveraging new voices and connecting actors with different perspectives and experiences.
The Action Hub is currently testing a multi-phase locally-led co-creation process to identify entry points for intervention around the Just Energy Transition process in Colombia. Starting in early 2024, the Governance Action Hub completed the first stage of its co-creation process. This included sectoral political economy work and interviews with 50 individuals and organizations in Colombia with deep knowledge of: a) energy transitions, b) the extractives sector, and c) governance and anti-corruption.
In March 2024, R4D conducted the second phase of the co-creation process, which was a scoping trip to test some of the team’s hypotheses around feasible entry points in the country. As part of this trip, R4D traveled across the country and interviewed a diverse set of community stakeholders. Immediately following this trip, the Action Hub is trying to seize momentum and interest in Colombia to develop and establish our plan of action. The team has initial ideas about a systems-wide approach of support, focusing on undertaking pilots at the local level. This would be reinforced and complemented by targeted activities at the meso, national and global levels.
The consultant will be the primary in-country point of contact for the next steps around this process and supporting R4D to take concrete steps towards establishing and implementing some of the identified interventions.
More information about the Action Hub can be found here: https://r4d.org/projects/governance-action-hub/.
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Solicitud de consultor: GovernanceActionHub
Antecedentes del proyecto
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En marzo de 2024, R4D llevó a cabo la segundafase del proceso de cocreación, que consistióen un viaje de exploración para poner a pruebaalgunas de las hipótesis del equipoentorno a puntos de entrada viables enelpaís. Como parte de esteviaje, R4D viajóportodoelpaís y entrevistó a un conjunto diverso de partes interesadas de la comunidad. Inmediatamentedespués de esteviaje, elActionHubestátratando de aprovecharelimpulso y elinterésen Colombia para desarrollar y establecernuestro plan de acción. El equipotiene ideas inicialessobre un enfoque de apoyo que abarquetodoelsistema y se centre enemprenderproyectospiloto a nivel local. Esto se reforzaría y complementaría con actividadesespecíficas a nivelmeso, nacional y mundial.
El consultor será el principal punto de contacto en el país para los próximos pasos en torno a este proceso y para ayudar a R4D a dar pasos concretos hacia el establecimiento y la aplicación de algunas de las intervenciones identificadas.
Encontrará más información sobre el ActionHub en: https://r4d.org/projects/governance-action-hub/.
Role of Consultant
- The consultant will play an important in-country role for R4D. They will be working closely with groups of international governance experts and R4D staff, none of whom are based in Colombia. The following tasks are expected from the consultant:
- At R4D’s direction, facilitate the implementation of MOUs with government officials
- Design 3-5 pilots around Alternative Energy Communities at the local level and present pilot designs to R4D for approval and to determine next steps. Pilots will include providing methodological support and identifying resources around innovative approaches to governance as a systems intervention.
- Find innovative ways to capture the testimony of local voices engaged in transitions
- Coordinate learning and evidence collection methods to ensure the sustainability of efforts and provide lessons for other countries.
- Be the main point person to carry out high level dialogue with government and respond to their requests for support at the micro, meso and macro level as they emerge.
- Oversee the design of a two-way learning and solutions system, with support from R4D’s learning team, to ensure: (i) prompt solution of problems throughout the system, (ii) a replication effect of the pilots at scale, and (iii) action research that can be used to collate robust evidence on this experiment.
- Identify additional entry points for GAH and ways to leverage ongoing work in Colombia
- In coordination with the research fellow, support the publication and sharing of material for other allies and partners inside Colombia and outside.
- Upon mutual agreement, the consultant may support the development of analytical material on the Action Hub’s approach to governance around energy transition processes to be discussed in other countries.
- The consultancy will involve domestic travel to locations where the Governance Action Hub is working, as well as program representation at selected events and meetings in Bogota, upon agreement between the consultant and the program director.
- A Master’s (or PhD) degree in Business Management/Administration, Public Policy, Public Administration, Developmental Studies, or a relevant field is preferred
- 10+ years of applicable experience in governance, accountability, innovation, democracy, energy transition, or related fields from roles within donor/funder organizations, governmental bodies, or multilateral institutions
- Knowledge of innovative approaches to governance, drawing on relevant tools from other disciplines.
- Facilitation skills and experience with knowledge of participatory methodologies.
- Experience in coordination roles – able to shift between leadership and team membership roles
- Fluent in both Spanish and English
- Knowledge of natural resource governance issues in Colombia required
- Based in Colombia
- Knowledge of the history of clean energy transition policy in Colombia and the plans of the present administration is a plus
- Ability to build strong relationships across sectors (government, civil society, private sector, international funders, etc.). Already established relationships with these stakeholders are a plus
- Self-motivated and able to work as part of a team and independently
- Experience establishing and managing strong networks of various stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience with project management and reporting
- Organized and able to balance competing priorities at the same time
- Solutions-oriented
- Diplomatic communication style
- El consultor desempeñará un importante papel en el país para R4D. Trabajará en estrecha colaboración con grupos de expertos internacionales en gobernanza y con el personal de R4D, ninguno de los cuales está basado en Colombia. Se esperan del consultor las siguientes tareas:
- Bajo la dirección de R4D, facilitar la implementación de MOUs con funcionarios del gobierno.
- Diseñar 3-5 proyectos piloto en torno a Comunidades Energéticas Alternativa a nivel local y presentar los diseños piloto a R4D para su aprobación y para determinar los próximos pasos. Los proyectos piloto incluirán la prestación de apoyo metodológico y la identificación de recursos en torno a enfoques innovadores de la gobernanza como intervención en los sistemas.
- Encontrar formas innovadoras de recoger el testimonio de las voces locales implicadas en las transiciones.
- Coordinar los métodos de aprendizaje y recopilación de pruebas para garantizar la sostenibilidad de los esfuerzos y proporcionar lecciones para otros países.
- Ser la persona de contacto principal para llevar a cabo un diálogo de alto nivel con el gobierno y responder a sus peticiones de apoyo a nivel micro, meso y macro a medida que surjan.
- Supervisar el diseño de un sistema bidireccional de aprendizaje y soluciones, con el apoyo del equipo de aprendizaje de R4D, para garantizar: (i) la pronta solución de los problemas en todo el sistema, (ii) un efecto de réplica de los pilotos a escala, y (iii) una investigación-acción que pueda utilizarse para recopilar pruebas sólidas sobre este experimento.
- Identificar puntos de entrada adicionales para GAH y formas de aprovechar el trabajo en curso en Colombia.
- En coordinación con el becario de investigación, apoyar la publicación y el intercambio de material para otros aliados y socios dentro y fuera de Colombia.
- De mutuo acuerdo, el consultor podrá apoyar el desarrollo de material analítico sobre el enfoque del Action Hub para la gobernanza en torno a los procesos de transición energética para ser discutido en otros países.
- La consultoría implicará viajes nacionales a lugares donde el Action Hub está trabajando, así como la representación del programa en eventos y reuniones seleccionadas en Bogotá, previo acuerdo entre el consultor y el director del programa.
- Es preferible tener un máster (o doctorado) en Gestión/Administración de Empresas, Políticas Públicas, Administración Pública, Estudios de Desarrollo o un campo relevante.
- Más de 10 años de experiencia aplicable en gobernanza, rendición de cuentas, innovación, democracia, transición energética o campos relacionados, desempeñando funciones en organizaciones donantes/financiadoras, organismos gubernamentales o instituciones multilaterales.
- Conocimiento de enfoques innovadores de la gobernanza, aprovechando las herramientas pertinentes de otras disciplinas.
- Habilidades de facilitación y experiencia con conocimiento de metodologías participativas.
- Experiencia en funciones de coordinación: capacidad para alternar entre funciones de liderazgo y de pertenencia a equipos.
- Dominio del español y del inglés
- Conocimiento de temas de gobernanza de recursos naturales en Colombia
- Basado en Colombia
- Conocimiento de la historia de la política de transición a energías limpias en Colombia y los planes de la actual administración es un plus
- Capacidad para establecer relaciones sólidas entre sectores (gobierno, sociedad civil, sector privado, financiadores internacionales, etc.). Se valorarán las relaciones ya establecidas con estas partes interesadas.
- Automotivado y capaz de trabajar en equipo y de forma independiente.
- Experiencia en el establecimiento y la gestión de redes sólidas de diversas partes interesadas
- Experiencia demostrada en gestión de proyectos y elaboración de informes
- Organizado y capaz de equilibrar al mismo tiempo prioridades contrapuestas.
- Orientado a las soluciones
- Estilo de comunicación diplomático
Payment Structure and Level of Effort
Payment will be deliverables-based and to be negotiated with final candidate. R4D anticipates that this contract will be an average of 20-30 hours per week from July to December 2024 with periods of more and less intensive work. Travel costs will be included as part of the final negotiated deliverables.
Requirements and Qualifications
Application and Evaluation
Please submit a CV, a letter of interest highlighting relevant skills and experience, and your daily rate by May 8, 2024. Applicants will be evaluated based on how well they fit the requirements stated above with strong preference for individuals who have worked on governance issues in Colombia. In addition, applicants may be asked for an interview and to provide references.
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Papel del consultor
Estructura de pago y nivel de esfuerzo
El pago se basará en los resultados y se negociará con el candidato final. R4D anticipa que este contrato tendrá una media de 20-30 horas semanales de julio a diciembre de 2024 con periodos de trabajo más y menos intensivo. Los gastos de viaje se incluirán como parte de los resultados finales negociados.
Requisitos y cualificaciones
Solicitud y evaluación
Por favor, envíe un CV, una carta de interés destacando las habilidades y experiencia relevantes, y su tarifa diaria antes del 8 de mayo de 2024. Los candidatos serán evaluados en función de su adecuación a los requisitos indicados anteriormente, con especial preferencia por las personas que hayan trabajado en temas de gobernabilidad en Colombia. Además, es posible que se pida a los solicitantes una entrevista y que proporcionen referencias.
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