Position Description

EnCompass LLC seeks experienced and innovative Organizational Development (OD) Advisor candidates resident in Nepal for a five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Localization Support project based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Localization Support activity provides USAID/Nepal with technical assistance to strengthen the Mission’s ability to ensure that local actors are in the lead role for Nepal’s development. The activity provides support for: capacity strengthening for local actors to apply, receive and manage USAID awards; strengthen the Mission’s government to government (G2G) programming; and support USAID to improve localization programming.

The OD Advisor will lead, manage, design, facilitate and evaluate organizational development interventions for the Localization Support project. As the technical expert in organizational development, change management and organizational learning, the OD Advisor works closely with the projects USAID/Government of Nepal (GON) Director and USAID stakeholders to co-create processes, tools, and structures that enhance organizational effectiveness. This position is focused primarily on supporting organizational change within the Mission, but the OD Advisor will also provide technical support to the other two project components of strengthening the capacity of Nepali entities and G2G programming to ensure integration of OD approaches and tools across the project.

The OD Advisor is a skilled project manager and facilitator capable of serving as client-facing point of contact for on-demand activities as well as designing/delivering Professional Development (PD) offerings as needed.

The position will be full-time and be based in Kathmandu with possible travel within Nepal. Citizens of Nepal are strongly encouraged to apply.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Essential functions:

Technical:

• Designs, delivers, and evaluates OD activities including but not limited to strategic planning, assessments, team building, retreats, change management, co-creation workshops, and facilitation of learning and other events in service of USAID/Nepal’s localization objectives.

• Works with the USAID/GON Support Director and USAID/Nepal client groups to conceptualize, assess, design, and implement change based on identified needs (e.g., organizational structure, ways of working, mindsets, organizational culture/climate, processes).

• Brings creative, leading-edge thinking, methodologies, and approaches to a range of organizational development and change management efforts in the Mission.

• Prepares facilitation designs and leads face-to-face, virtually, and/or hybrid workshops and retreats in an engaging, participative, inclusive, and collaborative manner.

• Leads collaborative processes for conducting staff and stakeholder engagement (e.g., co-creation, consultative processes).

• Effectively communicates progress on complex organizational development project deliverables to clients, team members, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

• Ensures integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender equality, and social inclusion lenses in all OD interventions.

• Implements OD-related monitoring and reporting activities that inform MEL and CLA processes and project reports in ways that demonstrate progress against project results in consultation with project colleagues and experts.

• Collaborates with and provides technical support to the other two components of the project (capacity strengthening of Nepali entities, capacity strengthening of G2G programming), that result in greater integration and complementarity of efforts.

• Develops and documents good, emergent, and best practices to improve organizational performance and effectiveness in service of localization, as well as systems to integrate the lessons across project components.

• Prepares reports, summary briefs and other material to support programming.

• Develops and maintains positive and productive relationships with all project stakeholders.

Management:

• Manages OD initiatives from design to implementation to evaluation, including scope, budget, timeline, and quality assurance for assigned activities.

• Manages activities, including engagement with clients, and members of the Localization Support core and extended teams.

Other:

• Participates actively as a project team member.

• Other duties as assigned by the Chief of Party.

Position Requirements

Qualifications

Academic Qualifications

• Minimum of a Master’s degree and 5 years of experience, Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience, or an Associate’s degree and 9 years of relevant work experience

• Certificate or Degree in Organizational Development, Change Management, Coaching, Leadership Development, Human-centered Design, International Development or related fields

Experience and Skills

• 5+ years’ work experience within organizational development, strategic planning, capacity strengthening, international development or related field required.
• Expertise in leading-edge thinking, methodologies and approaches in organizational development, leadership development, team effectiveness, including leadership assessments (360s, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, DISC, and/or other assessments)- qualification preferred.
• Experience successfully designing and facilitating engaging and effective organizational development interventions employing foundational and cutting-edge approaches to meet the needs of the client group.
• Experience successfully leading and implementing high visibility initiatives, in a complex environment with multiple tasks from ideation through implementation.
• Extensive knowledge of the field of organizational development, including state-of-the-art diagnostic methodologies with a proven ability to analyze and use various forms of data.
• Proven experience identifying and framing needs and opportunities, setting priorities, making critical assessments and identifying creative solutions.
• Strong planning, organization, critical and strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Committed to providing the highest level of service while challenging the status quo through organizational development interventions.
• Exceptional presentation, communication (verbal and written), facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
• Knowledge of and/or willingness to learn Appreciative Inquiry and ability to apply it in designs, client engagement, and all professional processes a plus.
• Adaptive, collaborative, complexity-oriented, and strengths-based leadership style, including cultivating peer to peer learning so that capabilities are shared across the team.
• Ability to work in English required.
• Ability to work in multiple languages of Nepal (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to work across diverse groups of people in the Nepali context and bring a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens to all designs and deliveries.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands and to seek supervisory assistance as appropriate.
• Ability to travel within Nepal.
• Experience working with USAID, the UN System, or international NGOs preferred.
• Committed to providing the highest level of service.

How to Apply

• Please submit CV and cover letter, and complete the application online.
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs to write your application materials or to submit answers to screening questions could disqualify your application and/or candidacy.

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