Consultant - Market-Based Coping and Recovery Program Technical Guidance - Sudan

Description

• Support completion of SOMOUD I and II deliverables, particularly by helping the teams design and implement agriculture input delivery methodologies, SME and consumer cooperatives component.
• Assist in designing and implementing agriculture input delivery methodologies, ensuring alignment with program goals and local context.
• Strengthen the SME and consumer cooperatives component by providing technical guidance, reviewing and advising on existing models, and ensuring effective implementation.
• Collaborate with program leadership and technical team to identify and address bottlenecks, ensuring timely delivery of program outputs.
• Support SOMOUD II CoP as needed through regular calls and tasks.

• With the Sudan MSD Technical Lead, enable program technical quality and coherence by supporting staff capacity building for relevant programs, both at the technical and managerial levels,
• Work closely with the Sudan MSD Technical and Implementation Lead to build staff capacity at both technical and managerial levels.
• Assist in developing and delivering training sessions, tools, and resources to enhance staff understanding of MSD principles and practices.

• Contribute to program learning by supporting program assessments, contributing to data-driven decision making, and capturing information for future program opportunities.  
• Contribute to the design and implementation of baseline, midline, and market assessments, ensuring alignment with program objectives.
• Support the development of survey tools, data collection processes, and analysis frameworks to generate actionable insights.
• Document lessons-learned, cases, and successes and challenges.
• If and when appropriate, assist in presenting assessment results to stakeholders, ensuring clarity and relevance for program adaptation and decision-making.

• Facilitate program consistency and coordination by facilitating regular calls with relevant program staff, managers, and the MSD Technical Lead and ad-hoc engagement. Support harmonization of approaches across programs and ensuring efficiency in programmatic processes. Focus on ensuring consistency through senior program- and country-level staffing transitions.
• Organize and lead coordination calls with program staff, managers, and the MSD Technical Lead to ensure alignment and address challenges.
• Provide ad-hoc support to program teams as needed, ensuring timely resolution of issues and maintaining program momentum.
• Ensure continuity during senior program- and country-level staffing transitions by maintaining consistent communication with SOMOUD Program Directors, the Sudan DoP, and other key stakeholders.
• Advise DoP on program structures and management lines to ensure programs deliverables are met.

• Finalized methodologies, reports on cooperatives, and progress updates
• Training materials and trainings conducted and a harmonization plan
• Survey tools themselves, analysis reports, and presentation decks. Internal and external learning documents
• Meeting action points

• Minimum 10 years MSD/Markets experience
• Previous Sudan MSD Experience preferably with MC
• Mercy Corps MSD Program design and implemetaiton experience
• Country Leadership experience, as DOPC/D/COP.