Pact seeks a Capacity Development (CD) Officer for the USAID-funded Strengthening Youth and Women’s Civic Participation Project. The Project aims to increase collaboration, sustainability, and resilience of civil society and independent media to advance the inclusion, participation and leadership of youth and women in Sudan. The activity will apply locally led, problem-driven, adaptive approaches. This program is in Year 2  of an anticipated five-year activity, with a dramatic shift in the operating context since the program startup in Khartoum in October 2022. This position will be based in Kampala, Uganda with potential for occasional travel throughout the East Africa region.

Contribute to the implementation of the project’s comprehensive and adaptive CD strategy to strengthen the organizational and technical capacity of local partners.
Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of CD activities in close alignment and coordination with activities across the project. Regularly collect, analyze, and report on CD data.
Provide written inputs and/ contribute to the development of tools required to monitor the implementation and monitoring of project capacity development activities.
Foster strong collaboration and coordination with the grants management team to integrate CD and subaward monitoring processes and support capacity development to be incorporated into subawards, as appropriate.
Directly implement capacity and performance assessments of partners/subgrantees and support the development of Institutional Strengthening Plans for partner/subgrantees.
Oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of Capacity Action Plans (CAPs) for local partners to enhance achievement of expected outcomes.
Support high-quality technical programming through participatory methodologies, co-creation, and contextualization, as per Pact’s capacity development overarching principles, approaches, and tools.
As feasible, conduct regular field visits to provide technical support, capacity development, mentorship, or coaching to subawards.
Employee complies with all company policies and procedures, including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that the training has been completed.
Lead the CD communication with partners and establishing a high level of trust that contributes to a positive CD relationship.
Foster peer learning and CD collaboration among our partners.
All other duties as assigned.