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AACS Consulting is an international development consulting firm working with and serving domestic and foreign governments, organizations, companies, and communities across Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen. Combining global expertise and local insight, we use evidence-based, result-oriented approaches to meet the specific needs of our valued clients ranging from international giants to local organizations and firms across different industries in the public, private and aid sectors. Since our founding in 2009, among others, we have helped international donor agencies such as The World Bank, UN, USAID, development organizations such as DAI, AECOM, and Chemonics, and global corporate brands such as BBC, Monster Energy Europe, and Alokozai to achieve organizational objectives, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and have a lasting positive impact.

Our expertise lies in gathering data from varied sources using proprietary methodologies and translating it into meaningful insights and actionable information. Over the last decade, AACS Consulting has successfully and proudly served 120+ clients on a wide variety of 140+ projects spanning across multiple industries.

AACS Consulting is looking for qualified Capacity Assessment Experts who will work on a project focusing of capacity assessment in Afghanistan. The experts must have a rich background in conducting capacity gap assessments and designing strategic capacity-strengthening plans for NGOs and CSOs in Afghanistan. Please refer to the following duties and responsibilities of the incumbent.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Undertake capacity gap assessment of NGOs and CSOs in Afghanistan
• Design a capacity assessment framework or strategy that will be used to conduct the gap assessment
• Design and develop appropriate assessment tools and procedures for interviews and focus group discussion
• Conducted literature review at the very start of the assessment the literature review for the identification of existing CSOs
• Undertake Interviews with NGOs and CSOs in Afghanistan to get their perspectives on strengths, weaknesses, desired skills, and capacity gaps
• Based on the Capacity Gap Assessment, identify priority Training Needs and develop training plans
• Compile the results of the assessments and the proposed capacity-building activities for each organization into a summary report
• Review and identify gaps of NGOs and CSOs using different domains of capacity strengthening such as organizational management, project management, human resources management, financial management, and technical capacities
• Develop an action plan for capacity improvement of CSOs for further oversight and collaborating the education sector activities
• Conduct training of trainer for field assessors to understand how to conduct data collection
• To ensure that the data management team is collecting coding mining cleaning triangulating and analyzing the collected data according to the given methodology
• Develop and contribute to report writing of the assessments and presentations for the client.

Interested candidates are requested to send their CVs in word format to vacancies@aacs-consulting.com immediately before November 15, 2022. (Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.)

Note:

1. Please mention the position and vacancy number in the subject line of your email (Capacity Assessment Specialist–AACS-VA-173); otherwise, your application may not be considered.