About Avina Foundation
With roots in Latin America, Avina Foundation is a global organization that connects, guides, and mobilizes resources (financial and non-financial) to promote collaborative efforts designed to address systemic imbalances affecting the most vulnerable people in the global South. Our vision is a sustainable, prosperous, democratic, and just world inspired by its diversity. To achieve this, we promote collaborative impact, focusing on these three interconnected pillars of sustainable development: 1) Climate Action; 2) Fair and Regenerative Economy; 3) Democratic Innovation. For more information, visit the website www.avina.net.
As Avina expands in the Global South, in this case to Africa, it seeks to co-learn in other geographical, political, and cultural contexts based on its long-standing experience in Latin America, as reflected in ColaborAcción, a guide to guide collaborative change processes. It also aims to share with philanthropy and African organizations alternative forms of cooperation, different from the traditional model of large organizations marked by colonial visions and practices.
Influencing and impacting in an interconnected world, expanding the scale and depth of impact through South-South partnerships and collaborative processes of global advocacy, is another purpose of Avina.
Objectives of the Consultancy
To accompany the design and lead the implementation of Avina Foundation’s cooperation and collaborative impact strategy in the African continent, ensuring a proper understanding of the context and opportunities, care in building alliances, a constructive and learning approach, and institutional positioning aligned with the organization’s pillars, priorities, and strategic definitions.
Consultancy Functions
a. Development and coordination of regional strategy
• Co-build Avina’s strategy for action in Africa through a process of listening and learning with the continent’s social capital and based on Avina’s principles, Five-Year Strategic Plan, and framework.
• Contribute to Avina’s programmatic strategies for impact and programs from an African perspective.
b. Institutional representation and management of social capital
• Act as responsible for Avina’s institutional relations in African countries where Avina operates.
• Manage relations with social capital in African countries where Avina operates, in coordination with the local team and global programmatic team and service areas.
• Ensure quality connections with existing social capital, contributing to Avina’s positioning in the countries where Avina operates.
• Support the prospecting of new key allies relevant to the organization’s strategies.
• Identify allies and innovations in African countries where Avina operates that can inspire and enrich Avina’s Latin American and global action.
c. Coordination of public positioning in the region
• Co-build the narrative of Avina’s action in Africa.
• Co-build and execute the institutional positioning strategy in the region in coordination with the local team, regional agendas, and the organization’s communication guidelines.
• Accompany and support the construction of the narrative of institutional achievements through our integrated management system.
d. Support for alliance development and implementation of Avina Foundation’s agendas in the region
• Participate in the design of projects and collaborative processes with execution in African countries.
• Promote the articulation of thematic areas with local and regional presence.
• Support in the articulation with social capital and selection of partners for project execution on the continent.
• Add value to existing social capital, linking Avina Foundation’s agendas with potential allies and co-investors.
• Facilitate the visibility of Avina Foundation’s strategy in the region and its programmatic agendas in public events, dissemination spaces, and media.
e. Context analysis, contextual intelligence, and risk management
• Provide information and reflection to the construction of context analysis in generating inputs for diagnosis and contributing contextual intelligence to defining the intervention model of institutional agendas.
• Share key aspects of social, economic, and political context of countries where Avina operates with the organization.
• Accompany and propose actions for identification and weighing of potential risks in coordination with the local team.
• Map possible risks associated with Avina Foundation’s work strategy.
• Design actions for mitigation and/or anticipation of risks.
• Manage active risks with the support of Collaborative Intelligence and Impact Management.
f. General collaboration with the operation of Avina Foundation
• Participate in institutional meetings.
• Coordinate with different areas of the organization.
• Collaborate in the implementation of the Five-Year Strategic Plan.
• Accountability to the organization for products produced.
• Accountability for activities and products.
• Other related activities.
Profile of the Person to be Hired The applicant for this position should have:
• Degree in Social Sciences or related fields.
• Postgraduate training will be valued.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in multi-stakeholder coordination agendas, international cooperation, intersectoral coordination, and public-private linkage.
• Knowledge and/or experience in sustainable development-related issues.
• Experience in or with the private sector and civil society.
• Experience in managing processes and projects at the national and international levels.
• Proficiency in English and a second language, preferably Spanish or Portuguese. French is desirable.
Competencies
• Ability to dialogue and cooperate with actors from civil society, governments, and companies with a vocation to build convergence.
• Ability and willingness to work with multicultural teams.
• Openness and flexibility to participate in different simultaneous processes and topics.
• Capacity for relationship in virtual teams.
• Collaborative leadership.
• Knowledge and analysis of the socio-economic-political and cultural context of the country.
• Capacity to innovate and provide assertive responses in changing and uncertain contexts.
• Result oriented.
• Analytical ability and decision-making.
• Accountability.
Contracting Conditions
• Requires availability for occasional international travel.
• The consultancy is in a home-office mode but preferably based in one of the following countries: Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, DRC, Ghana, Zambia, Uganda, or Mozambique.
• Fee range: USD 5000 – USD 6000 per month.
• This consultancy coordinates actions with the organization’s Directors and Managers.
Professionals interested in applying for this consultancy are requested to send a CV of up to two pages, including professional fee expectations, by january 30th, 2024.
Job application procedure
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More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
