Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 22 Jun 2015
Plan UK is a global children’s charity. We work with children in the world’s poorest countries to help them build a better future. For over 75 years we’ve been taking action and standing up for every child’s right to fulfil their potential.
Bids and tenders have been identified as a key strategic priority for Plan UK; as Plan UK seeks to build its capacity in this area and secure further funding in this manner, it is essential that lessons from the design and implementation of large complex programmes are identified and learned from.
Plan UK is committed to ensuring programmatic work is based on solid evidence and strong methodological approaches. Plan UK endeavours to draw on its existing best practice, learning from its experience and sharing this with the development community. This is particularly pertinent as regards learning from existing large programmes; ensuring that systems, processes and in-house expertise is built to ensure effective management of complex contracts.
It is our intention to learn from these experiences in order to achieve continual improvement in systems and standards that guide the management of large complex programmes from bid stage through to inception, ongoing management and the impact on programming.
This piece of work requires a neutral facilitator to ensure effective data collection and analysis from multiple relevant stakeholders. Plan UK is seeking a review which addresses systems, challenges and opportunities within Plan in regards to complex partnerships and contracts.
This piece of work is designed to assess what Plan does well and what it needs to improve in order to effectively manage complex tenders from design to contract closure through to implementation. The purpose of this learning piece is to document key learnings from the experience of complex tender design and implementation to inform future tender development, start-up and management.
How to apply:
Interested parties should request a copy of the Terms of Reference from sophie.freeland-haynes@plan-uk.org and submit the following by 22nd June:
- An up to date CV;
- A cover letter (no more than 3 pages) highlighting your experience, suggested approach, timeline for this consultancy and highlighting two previous examples of relevant work;
- A top line budget.
Interviews will take place w/c 22nd June (Skype interviews optional).