Ipas NIGERIA – HEALTH ACCESS RIGHTS
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS CONSULTANT
Ipas Nigeria, is looking for an organizational effectiveness consultant to assist us in optimizing Ipas resources to achieve a more significant impact. We want to engage a business efficiency consultant to review our business processes and resource utilization to identify opportunities to improve efficiency. The primary focus will be on the country office and look across all functions, including finance, human resources, and technical teams. As all these teams interact with our global technical and operational teams in our headquarters in North Carolina, USA, there may also be observations and recommendations on business processes and resource utilization from critical internal business partners at HQ. The consultant must consider value for money using our impact measures, core values, and new strategic framework and outcomes
Ipas is a global non-governmental organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to increase women’s access to, and improve the quality of sexual and reproductive health services.
Ipas has been in Nigeria since 2000 through a bilateral agreement with the Federal government represented by the National Planning Commission.
Ipas Nigeria is a 20-year-old organization whose mission is to respond to factors including sexual violence, stigma, lack of information, and lack of access that fueled death from unsafe abortion. Ipas Nigeria works in partnership with numerous stakeholders, including government officials, health providers, youth groups, women’s groups, law enforcement, journalists, and legal professionals, to improve women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Ipas Nigeria also focuses on research to better understand women’s needs and desires about their reproductive health and wellbeing. Ipas Nigeria current operations are in the following states; Adamawa, Gombe, Jigawa, Taraba, Kano, FCT, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Anambra, and Abia. Ipas, Nigeria, currently have 19 full-time employees.
Required experience or competencies:
• Experience working with non-profits/non-governmental organizations.
• Possess a strong background in non-profit human resource management.
• Experience in process mapping Experience using different efficiency methodologies like LEAN Impact, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management in Not-For-Profit organizations.
• Written and spoken fluency in English
• Available to develop a final proposal for Ipas by July 1, 2020
• Available to begin work from July 3, 2020
• Length of contract and key deliverables to be determined.
Scope of Work
The consultant will work closely with Mr. Lucky Palmer, Ipas Nigeria Country Director, and US based HR consultant for Ipas.
In collaboration with Ipas leadership, the consultants will:
• Conduct an organizational efficiency assessment, including in the key areas of culture, leadership, decision-making and structure, people, and work processes and systems.
• Document the key process flows, functions and positions.
• Analyze the data to identify inefficiencies.
• Recommend alternative process or streamlined process to get higher value for money and allow Ipas Nigeria to implement its program in line with updated organizational policies, procedures, and our strategic framework
Deliverables
• Process mapping and analysis
• Documentation of the current state Ipas Nigeria processes and resource utilization
• Report detailing the analysis and recommendations
Timeframe
The expected period of performance July 1-31 2020 (negotiable). Deadline for deliverables to be determined during contract negotiations
EXPRESSING INTEREST
Send the following in an email with “Ipas Nigeria Organizational Effectiveness Consultant in the subject line to IpasNigeria.Procurement@ipas.org by July 01, 2020, no later than 9 PM.
• Statement expressing your interest and relevant experience
• One or two paragraphs giving a sense of your approach to the project scope and goals
• Two or three references
• C.V. or Resume with relevant experience or consultant project descriptions
• Day and/or hourly rate
• Availability for work starting from July 3, 2020
