Creative Associates International
Location
Jordan | India
Job description
•Consultancy service Summary:
TAP is seeking applicants for a 7-months Future Foresight and Strategic Planning Advisor with an estimation of 80 days LOE.
TAP anticipates sourcing Future Foresight and Strategic Planning Advisor who will support TAP s efforts to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Youth in reviewing the updated current strategic plan (2021-2024), conducting future foresight analysis, developing a new strategic plan for the ministry (2025-2028), developing of an execution plan (2025-2028), and building the capacity of the leaders and relevant staff in strategic planning and future foresight.
•Duties and Responsibilities:
• Conduct desk review: Review the National Youth Strategy (2019-2025), the MoY s strategic Plan (2021-2024) documents and national documents such the Economic Modernization Vision, the public sector modernization roadmap, the Government Indicative Executive Program, and the Royal Commission to Modernize the Political System, the recently enacted Administrative Organization Bylaw, and any other related documents, to assess the National Youth Strategy's alignment with the government's broader strategies, and to reflect all on the future planning of MoY.
• Analyze the present strategy's results and identify any shortcomings or deficiencies in comparison to the strategy's achievement indicators (lessons learnt).
• Benchmarking with other relevant countries MoY's future foresight plans such as UAE, Egypt, Tunisia, KSA, and any other international experiences.
• Engaging with the ministry stakeholders such as ministry officials and staff, youth representatives, and external partners to ensure that the strategic plan reflects a comprehensive understanding of the needs, aspirations, and expectations of all relevant parties.
• Defining the scope and area of future foreseeing foresight and the needed time frame, besides identifying the affected parties that might be involved.
• Environmental Scanning: Analyzing the current global trends and drivers of change in the youth sector to identify potential future challenges/threats and opportunities using quantitative and qualitative methods and identify the impact (influence) and level of ambiguity of trends to identify priorities.
• Scenario planning: identify ranges of potential outcomes and impacts to identify potential alternative future scenarios for youth and youth-related organizations (possible, preferred, and probable), and evaluate responses and manage for both positive and negative possibilities. Then determine the preferred future after evaluating different scenarios.
• Strategic Plan Development: Assisting the ministry in developing a comprehensive strategic plan (based on the preferred future) that includes the vision, mission, and goals, strategic objectives, strategic initiatives/programs/projects, cost estimates, key performance measures (KPIs), and targeted values for KPIs.
• Execution plan: Assisting the ministry in developing a four-year executive plan.
• Facilitating Workshops: assisting the ministry in planning and facilitating internal and external workshops for the relevant employees and key stakeholders involved in the strategic planning process.
• Finalize the Strategic plan of MoY based on all the above and prepare the final draft of the strategic plan and execution plan.
• Training and Capacity building: Providing training to the leaders and related employees on future foresight and strategic planning concepts and tools to build their capacity. Training should coincide with the strategy preparation workshops.
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Required Qualifications:
• Minimum bachelor s degree of Industrial Engineering, Business or Public Administration, strategic planning, or related field. A higher degree is preferable.
• At least 10 years of experience in Strategic Planning and policy analysis: Prior experience in developing strategic plans, especially for government entities or similar organizations, is crucial. Experience in working on multi-year plans that involve policy development and implementation is highly valuable. preferably has regional /international experience.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in future foresight. Professional certificates in these areas are highly favorable.
• Hands-on experience in preparing well-written documents such as strategic plans, future foresight analysis and executive plans.
• Experience in conducting capacity building, training, and coaching is highly desirable.
• Work experience with international organizations is highly favorable. Practical knowledge and experience with government ministries and departments are highly favorable.
• Experience of working with the MoY, is highly desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required to engage diverse stakeholders, facilitate workshops, conduct interviews, and lead discussions effectively.
• Proficiency with relevant computer software programs, especially MS Office.
• Proficiency in both Arabic and English languages.
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ESTIMATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE and LEVEL OF EFFORT (LOE)
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ESTIMATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 7 Months.
* Creative anticipates issuing a Consultancy Agreement (CA) valid for a Period of Performance for approximately 7 Month.
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LEVEL OF EFFORT (LOE): 80 Days
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Ordering Procedure
Purchases may only be made by Creative via written Fixed Price Level of Effort (LOE) Consultant Agreement.
Daily rates are based on an 8-hour working day. Any hours worked in excess of 8 hours will not be paid. Working days consisting of less than 8 hours shall be prorated accordingly.
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Key Working Relationships:
This consultant will administratively report to the Operations and Security Manager and technically report to the Institutional Development and Automation Lead in TAP.
This consultant will coordinate with the manager of the Monitoring of Achievements and Institutional Performance Department at MoY and the Institutional Development Specialist.
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