Assisting in long-term organizational visioning, positioning, and planning.
Preparing organizations to become eligible for work with the U.S. government, more competitive for work, and more successful with operational systems for project compliance.
Supporting organizational decision-making, strategic positioning, desk research, in-country data collection, outlining, and writing proposals.
Supporting the development of low-cost, user-friendly systems to help manage and monitor business implementation.
Supporting branding, messaging, and communications plans.
Supporting the development of annual and multi-year work plans for organizations, projects, and programs.
Reviewing fidelity of implementation, compliance with contractual commitments and regulations, cost-effectiveness, and efficacy of implementation.
Developing staffing plans, job descriptions, and candidate outreach; screening; interviewing; and referring vetted candidates for key positions.
Developing partnership plans, partner profiles, and organizational outreach; and referring vetted organizations as vendors, resource organizations, and longer-term partners.
- Education content includes early childhood education, primary and secondary education, tertiary education, educational leadership, curriculum development, teacher professional development, teaching and learning materials, reading literacy, socio-emotional learning, universal design for learning, and educational planning and policy.
- Health and nutrition emphasize the role of balanced diets and scratch cooking in healthy living; and balancing nutrition and environmental sustainability.
- Workforce includes linking labor markets and training, youth employment, soft skills development, career counseling, entrepreneurship education, and home-based businesses.
Conducting research reviews on key issues in education, health and nutrition, workforce development, and other sectors.
Reviewing proposed research to ensure the protection of human subjects, and assisting organizations in creating their own IRBs.
Helping design and implement applied research, monitoring activities, and evaluation studies; reporting on project/program outputs and outcomes; and helping organizations increase the efficacy of report findings for organizational, program, and project improvement.
Reviewing organizations’ project portfolios for tools and processes that can be generalized, named, and then adapted for use in other projects and the social development community more broadly.
Arranging site visits in the Washington, DC area for foreign leaders related to education, health and nutrition, and workforce development.
Organizing and/or facilitating meetings, conferences, panels, and site visits on topics related to education, health and nutrition, and workforce development.
