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Girls Not Brides
Consultancy: Facilitation of Capacity Building Sessions During the Africa Team Retreat at Girls Not Brides
KenyaFull TimeMid-Senior Level
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Scope of WorkÂ
The consultant is expected to:
Hold preparatory meetings, review background materials, and develop the retreat agenda and facilitation plan.
Facilitate Work Planning for 2027 sessions. Guide the team through collaborative work planning to develop clear workstreams, activities, deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and individual accountabilities for 2027.
Guide country focal teams to present their contexts and support the team to reach portfolio and priority decisions.
Design and facilitate team building integration of new colleagues, and communication sessions.
Capture all decisions and outputs, photograph the sessions, and submit the post-retreat report.
Deliverables
A comprehensive facilitation plan, including methodology, detailed agenda, session designs, and activities, agreed with the Africa Team ahead of the retreat.Â
Africa Team's 2027 Work Plan using the agreed work planning template, with clear workstreams, activities, deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and individual accountabilities.
Country Portfolio and Strategic Priorities document with documented decisions on regional focus areas for 2027.
Power-Shifting Framework document defining how powershifting will be operationalized across hiring, governance, partnerships, and member engagement
A retreat report summarising discussions, decisions, insights, outcomes, and recommendations, alongside pre- and post-retreat evaluations to document baseline expectations, outcomes, learnings, and participant feedback.
All supporting materials, presentations, templates, and resources used during the retreat.
Photographs capturing team members during team-building activities and sessions.
Duration and locationÂ
The Africa Team Retreat is scheduled to take place on the week of 29th September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.Â
The consultant is expected to be available for preparatory meetings, retreat facilitation, and post-retreat reporting.
Qualifications and ExpertiseÂ
The ideal consultant should have:
Proven experience in team facilitation and organisational development, including facilitating strategy operationalisation and change processes.
Demonstrated experience designing and facilitating working sessions and workshops that produce concrete decisions and documented outputs.
Expertise in team building, communication, and collaboration strategies, including integrating new staff into established teams.
Understanding of organisational values and dynamics of remote and distributed teams across diverse regional contexts.
Familiarity with power-shifting and localisation approaches in international development and understanding of how these principles shape organizational practice.
Experience working with international development organisations, ideally in Africa or with Africa-focused teams.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work sensitively across diverse country contexts and build psychological safety for open dialogue and decision-making.
Full computer literacy and fluency in English both written and spoken are essential.
Application ProcessÂ
Interested individual consultants or companies are invited to apply. Please provide details of similar projects undertaken. Applications must not exceed five pages and should include the following:
Technical capacity of the consultant/s in terms of their qualifications and competencies for the assignment. Please attach detailed C.Vs.
Clear understanding of the assignment/interpretation of the TORs.
Methodology to be used during the assignment.
Work plan indicating the maximum time/duration required for the assignment, including a detailed financial proposal.
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