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Senior Implementation and Field Consultant
Prevail Fund
Global Village, UAE
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Senior
Remote
3 weeks ago
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About the Role
Prevail Fund is seeking a Senior Implementation and Field Consultant for a 3-month consultancy to assess livelihoods interventions and implementing organizations. The role involves pressure-testing implementers, conducting field visits, and writing operational assessments.
Key Skills for This Role
Program ManagementField OperationsOrganizational AssessmentRelationship ManagementLogistics PlanningJudgment
Responsibilities
- Co lead screening calls with senior leaders of livelihoods organizations to assess delivery model credibility and capacity
- Ensure efficient, effective field visits through thorough preparation and tools
- Write concise operational summaries covering budget, scale, growth trajectory, and key risks
- Help identify implementers, funders, and field experts to pressure test views on delivery and operational risk
- Join visits to implementing organizations, walk through operations, and compare delivery models against observations
- Contribute to fund design: allocations, deployment pace, grant sizes, and team needed
- Draft implementation sections of decision memo covering delivery models, operational capacity, and cost realities
Requirements
- 8+ years working with NGOs, philanthropy, or implementing organizations in low and middle income countries, in program management, field operations, or implementation
- Experience working with on the ground NGO teams in low and middle income countries, ideally in Sub Saharan Africa and/or South Asia
- Builds rapport quickly with NGO leaders and staff, leads productive conversations, and accurately identifies operational strengths and weaknesses
- Strong at planning and running multi country field visits end to end
- Translates site visits into clear, structured operational reads, comfortable with travel, and works well with ambiguity
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- Prevail Fund is exploring a new area of giving, and this consultancy will help assess whether there is a strong enough implementer landscape to support it. We are looking for a Senior Implementation and Field Consultant to join us for roughly three months to assess promising livelihoods intervention
Core Components
- Pressure test implementers. Co lead screening calls with senior leaders of livelihoods organizations to assess whether their delivery model is credible, aligned with the evidence, and capable of absorbing funding and delivering impact.
- Ensure efficient, effective field visits through thorough preparation and tools.
- Write the operational read ups. For each organization, draft concise summaries that cover budget, scale, growth trajectory, geographic footprint, MEL maturity, government relationships, leadership strength, absorptive capacity, and key risks or flags.
- Set up the sector conversations. Help identify implementers, funders, and field experts who can pressure test our emerging views on delivery, scale, and operational risk.
- Get in the field. Join visits to implementing organizations, some of which are alongside the Prevail team. Walk through their operations, talk to participants and leadership, and compare delivery models, bottlenecks, and scaling claims against what you see.
- Help sketch the fund. Contribute to the first cut of the fund design: allocations, deployment pace, grant sizes, and the team needed to run it.
- Contribute to the recommendation. Draft the implementation sections of the decision memo, covering delivery models, operational capacity, and cost and scaling realities.
Who We’re Looking For
- Experience. 8+ years working with NGOs, philanthropy, or implementing organizations in low and middle income countries, in program management, field operations, or implementation.
- Field and operations experience. Experience working with on the ground NGO teams in low and middle income countries, ideally in Sub Saharan Africa and/or South Asia, assessing or supporting how programs are delivered.
- Relationship management. Builds rapport quickly with NGO leaders and staff, leads productive conversations, and accurately identifies operational strengths and weaknesses.
- Logistics and organization. Strong at planning and running multi country field visits end to end.
- Judgment and independence. Translates site visits into clear, structured operational reads, is comfortable with travel, and works well with the ambiguity of early stage scoping.
Consultant Contract Details
- Start date: As soon as possible.
- Contract duration: Around three months.
- Time requirement: Full time preferred, with part time arrangements considered for the right candidate.
- Compensation: Competitive day rate, commensurate with experience.
- Location: Remote, with candidates ideally based within 2/+4 hours of Central Africa Time.
- Travel: Up to 40% of the time, concentrated around the field visit period, and negotiable. Any required travel expenses will be covered by Prevail Fund.
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