Recruitment of three (3) county engagement specialists

LINKSSUDAN · December 9, 2021, 8:23am

USAID’s four-year (2021-2025) Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan (RASS) Activity will improve food security and community household recovery and resilience in 13 target counties, reducing long term reliance on humanitarian assistance. To achieve this ambitious aim, RASS will employ a resilience pathways approach to improve the effectiveness of local systems and strengthen the capacities of community groups to achieve gender responsive and diversified market-sensitive production; facilitate increased production of diverse nutritious foods by strengthening productivity, reducing food loss, and improving nutrition behaviors; and strengthen and expand household and community opportunities for sustainable, locally driven livelihoods. RASS targets graduating communities from high integrated food security phase classifications to low IPC acute food insecurity and support a change from a focus on humanitarian assistance to inclusive development assistance and economic growth.
DAI/RASS hereby invites individual Consultants eligible to provide consultancy services as County engagement specialist. Individual consultants are invited to submit their application. The period of performance is expected from January 15, 2022, and end on February 15, 2022. DAI will award a contract as follows:

Level	County	Estimated Number of Days for Completion
Juba	Akobo	10 days travel included
County	Budi and Kapoeta North	20 days travel included
County	Wau and Jur River	20 days travel included

The selected candidates must have the following qualifications, experience and skills:

Relevant Master’s degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, and developmental studies or any other related field.
Minimum experience of 5 years in conducting Development Planning using participatory methodologies with proven results.
Proven experience in conducting stakeholder engagement and local planning or related assignment. This should be backed up by the number of similar Areas Based Planning that has been conducted by the individual.
Demonstrated ability to write high quality, methodologically sound, analytical papers, and reports in user-friendly English language.
Excellent organizing, facilitating, presentation, communication, and report writing skills.
Experience using gender and social inclusion practices and methodologies.
Experience in facilitating participatory workshops and/or consultations.
Good knowledge and proven experience in research design, implementation, and data analysis.
Sound knowledge of the context in South Sudan and the geographic scope of the study area.
Having completed similar scope for project funded by international donors such as USAID, World Bank, UN agencies etc… is an advantage
Perfect command of the English language is required (written and spoken)
Knowledge of a local language is an advantage
This RFQ is open to qualified national individual Consultants wishing to participate in the DAI/RASS activities.

Further details on consultant services, qualifications and eligibility criteria are provided in the RFQ document attached herein. Interested Individual Consultants may seek clarifications regarding this RFQ by e-mail to rass_procurement@rassactivity.org.
Interested Consultants are invited to submit their Application: CV, Financial Proposal and past performance references in separate files to be sent all at once using the forms included in the RFQ documents to DAI/RASS at rass_submissions@rassactivity.org only with the email subject «Consultancy Services for Joint County Planning-Name of consultant» no later than December 23, 2021 at 5:00 PM CAT

Contact Information :

|**E-mail: |rass_procurement@rassactivity.org|