• Lead/coordinate strategy development, implementation, and monitoring of all project activities concerning capacity development
• Provide input to the development of annual implementation plans, project reports, and other key project deliverables that contribute to the development of the project’s analytical products including research policy briefs, presentations, project updates, environment scans, or newsletter articles, etc
• Introduce/facilitate network analysis and network strengthening activities to identify barriers and opportunities for advancing shared civil society strengthening programming and to improve coordination and integration of activities
• Complete capacity and performance assessments of partners/subgrantees and support the development of institutional strengthening plans for each partner/subgrantee
• Identify partner/subgrantee training needs, identify trainers, and support the development of curriculum for all trainings
• Identify opportunities for partner/subawardee mentoring needs and provide mentoring on a range of organisational development topics
• Regularly review subgrantee capacity needs
• Contribute to the development of sources/documents for specific technical areas identified for capacity development of subgrantees, including training, mentoring, and coaching, etc
• Support collaboration with donors, multilateral organisations, host country governments, and implementing partners to apply civil society strengthening approaches and best practices for the purpose of capacity building, especially through training, mentoring, and learning activities
• Contribute to capacity building on quality assurance/continuous quality improvement of project tools, methodologies, and approaches
• Document CD-related best practices
• Regularly collect, analyse, and report on CD data
• Provide written inputs and/contribute to the development of tools required to monitor the implementation and monitoring of project capacity CD activities
• Coordinate on/off line training sessions, workshops, mentoring of subawardees to ensure the efficient and timely implementation of project activities
• Conduct CD learning sessions/coordinate peer exchange sessions for subawardees on various technical areas
• Conduct regular field visits to provide technical support, capacity development, mentorship, or coaching to subawardees
• Coordinate CD technical assistance activities between the country office and Pact headquarters

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline
• Ten years, minimum, of experience in designing and implementing technical and organisational capacity building programmes
• Knowledge of and experience with key democracy, human rights, governance programming in Sudan will be a strong advantage
• Knowledge of, and experience with, USAID’s collaborating, adapting, and learning (CLA) approaches
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Knowledge of the political, social, and economic context of Sudan
• Demonstrated ability to partner successfully with team, partner/subgrantee organisations, and other stakeholders
• Management and supervision experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programmes, i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc., as well as other relevant software

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