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About the Project

This is the third year of Intersex Asia’s existence as a registered organisation. Also, it has been three years since our Constitution and Governance Manual was updated. Recently, the organisation completed a wide-ranging consultation process for preparing the Strategic Plan for the next three years. The new Strategic Plan, coming into effect in 2024, highlighted the need to prepare an organisational development strategy keeping in view the needs of the regional intersex movement and how the projects taken by Intersex Asia have increased in scale and financial impact.

By engaging a consultant for this activity, the organisation hopes to understand the progress over the last three years and how the current organisational processes can be improved further to increase our effectiveness. This exercise will lead to specific changes in our current governance manual and ensure our organisational processes are suitable to the growing needs of the movement.

The outcome of this consultancy will be an organisational development strategy for the next three years. It’ll also have an impact on the other important organisational policy documents which need to be prepared for the organisation, namely- HR Manual, Finance Manual and Communications Strategy.

Scope of Work

The Consultant will be expected to evaluate the current governance structure, policies and approach as well as the strategic plan and how it is aligned with the project implementation approach. In view of the above, the consultant(s) will be expected to consider the following:

a.     Board Composition and Structure

b.     Board Governance

c.     Operational and Financial Management

d.     Stakeholder Engagement

e.     Organizational Culture

4.      Approach:

The consultant(s) is expected to follow the following approach while developing their work plan and implementing the project:

a.     Conducting assessments

b.     Developing evaluation plans

c.     Facilitating stakeholder engagement

d.     Analyzing data

e.     Reporting findings 

Deliverables:

The consultant/s are expected to assess the areas mentioned in the scope of work and prepare a plan for IA to implement for organization improvement. The deliverables include:

1.    Compile a final assessment report of the areas mentioned in the scope of work

2.    Develop an organization development strategy for IA for the next 2 years.

3.    Prepare a realistic plan for IA to fill the gaps discovered during the assessment including suitable recommendations for amending IA’s Governance Manual and Constitution.

Qualifications and working experience

An ideal candidate would have:

●      Extensive experience (8-10 years) in running or advising civil society organisations working at the regional level.

●      The ability to take creative initiative and bring new ideas to the table. A willingness to take ownership of the life-cycle of new ideas in terms of conceptualizing, researching, risk assessment, outreach, execution, and closure.

●      A highly collaborative approach and good time-management and problem-solving skills. This role involves collaborations with the research and advocacy team, board members and senior staff, and also a few external stakeholders.