Short-Term Technical Assistance Subject Matter Experts (STTA) [PR0006A]

ProSidian Seeks a Short-Term Technical Assistance Subject Matter Experts (STTA) (Time and Materials) in Mid Atlantic Washington Metropolitan Area (Northern Virginia | Washington DC | Maryland) to support an engagement for an independent agency of the United States Federal Govt. that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance . 

ProSidian Team Members work to provide technical, management and program support services and deliverables supporting an international Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) Local Sustainability Institutional Support Contract (LS-ISC).  Under this contract, The ProSidian provides staffing, institutional, operational, technical, and administrative support to “E3/LS” present and future programs, including long-term technical assistance (LTTA) and short-term technical assistance (STTA).  We support the E3/LS vision, development objective, and three Practice Areas (locally-led development | volunteerism | cooperative development).

Short-Term Technical Assistance Subject Matter Experts (STTA) Candidates work to support requirements in the form of subject-matter experts (SMEs) to various Functional Area (FA) management issues related to Foreign Aid and Development Assistance including monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance Foreign Aid and Development Assistance Mission Effectiveness.   We work across all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth with a particular focus on Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) initiatives through Local Sustainability Institutional Support (LS-ISC).  The three main technical areas within E3/LS’s portfolio are locally-led development, volunteerism, and cooperative development.

ProSidian Short-Term Technical Assistance (STTA) Subject Matter Experts will support E3/LS Development Objectives with staff and partners that have the knowledge, skills, tools, and resources to ensure that assistance aligns with the priorities of local actors; is inclusive of marginalized populations; leverages local capacities and resources; and engages with local systems in ways that build upon and strengthen local leadership, capacity, and self-reliance to sustain development over time.  To achieve this vision and these objectives, E3/LS focuses on three practice areas: (1) technical leadership, where locally led approaches to development are put to work in The Foreign Aid and Development Assistance Agency Programs and USG policies and strategies; (2) evidence and learning, where USAID builds evidence for locally owned and sustained development through research, innovation, and evaluations; and (3) agency policy, capacity, and culture, where Agency staff and leadership are champions and practitioners of locally led approaches through uptake of new knowledge, skills, and mindsets.

ProSidian Consulting is pursuing a five-year Local Sustainability Institutional Support Contact (LS-ISC) Contract.   The goal of this mechanism is to create a central platform for support services that will strengthen, support and facilitate The Agency’s E3/LS-ISC  Mission. 

*** MULTIPLE QUALIFIED CANDIDATES SOUGHT ON CONTRACT CONTINGENT BASIS ***

• Provide Short-Term Technical Assistance (STTA) Subject Matter Expert For:  Program Analysis (PA) | Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) | Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) | Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) | Knowledge Management Practices (PMP) | Public Financial Management [PFM] | Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Planning (PMEP) | Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Planning (PMEP) Services | Public Financial Management (PFM) Support | Evaluation and Assessment Services | Administrative Support | Program Support (AS/PS) | Award Management (AM) | Event And Travel Support (AM) | Other Logistical Support As Needed
• Lead and support knowledge audits focused on The Local Sustainability Institutional Support Contact (LS-ISC) Mission, including conducting a knowledge needs analysis involving questionnaires, focus group discussions, interviews with key stakeholders and workshops; knowledge inventory analysis to cover workflow and business processes analysis, content analysis and systems analysis; knowledge flow analysis; and knowledge mapping.
• Lead and support Actions And Activities for creating a knowledge-sharing culture, including augmenting position descriptions for staff members whose job is primarily to share or distribute knowledge; knowledge-sharing and/or mentoring goals as part of an employee’s performance plan; establishing a reward system to recognize staff for sharing knowledge through formalized incentives; and formalizing regular networking opportunities within the Mission for the sharing of knowledge, including brown bags, presentations by experts and subject-matter workshops.
• Lead and support actions supporting the knowledge management process, including integrating knowledge sharing and learning into development programs and activities, including drafting language to be included in contracts for implementing partners; providing incentives and recognition for knowledge sharing and innovation by implementing partners; integrating the use of  subject areas and workspaces as a knowledge sharing platform for mission staff and operating units; creating capacity for simplified information access by developing a system for standard information classification (taxonomy) and filing structures in the mission; and establishing After Action Learning processes to enable strategic planning teams to benefit from and pass on lessons learned.
• Actions and activities for the effective utilization of technology, including establishing and maintaining expertise directories for use by the mission on the Intranet and  platform; developing a document management system for organizing and retrieving documents; carrying out knowledge mapping to identify the knowledge that the Mission wants to manage; instituting After Action Learning programs; and institutionalizing and promoting available training programs that provide staff members at The Foreign Aid and Development Assistance Agency with the understanding and skills to use new knowledge sharing technologies and processes.
• Ensure that short- and long-term knowledge management team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.