USAID DAI – PFMA STTA – Governance Trainer
USAID DAI – PFMA STTA – Governance Trainer
SCOPE OF WORK
USAID Public Financial Management and Administration (PFMA)
Proposed Personnel |
TBD |
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Position |
STTA – Governance trainer |
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Period of Performance On/About (From – To) |
From: May 7, 2023 |
To: May 8, 2023 |
Maximum Level of Effort |
Up to 2 LOE days |
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Base of Operations |
Amman, Jordan |
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position reports to |
PFMA’s Obj1 Team Lead |
Project Background:
USAID Public Financial Management and Administration (PFMA) aims to work in partnership with USAID/Jordan and the Government of Jordan (GOJ) to improve Jordan’s revenue system and enhance their budget management process. PFMA will build the capacity of the Jordanian Ministry of Finance and other government institutions to modernize the revenue collection system, encourage compliance—including making it easier for taxpayers to comply with tax obligations—upgrade public procurement management, and improve budget planning, preparation, and execution. Key objectives include: 1) improving the revenue raising system; 2) streamlining the budget management process; 3) optimizing public expenditure management; and 4) implementing crosscutting Public Financial Management reforms such as interventions to address COVID-19. Through a combination of technical assistance, capacity building, and facilitation, tangible and measurable results are expected during the anticipated five-year duration of the activity.
To these ends, PFMA works closely with the relevant Government of Jordan entities, USAID and other donor programs to identify opportunities to improve revenues and enhance the budgeting process through building the capacity of the Ministry of Finance and other government institutions and provide on-hand support upgrading of different internal and external systems.
Objective:
PFMA is seeking to engage the services of a Short-Term Consultant to assist with the transformational activities that are being undertaken by PFMA’s Obj1 team. The Trainer will work closely with the PFMA’s Obj1 team and counterparts on providing two days training in Governance, as a part of full training course in corporate performance and governance, the training will be delivered to part of ISTD strategy staff and the ISTD different directorates strategy coordinators to ensure their ability to track the strategy performance and implement the ISTD strategy policy
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The consultant will perform the following tasks:
- Review existing PFMA’s Obj1 counterparts’ business needs and the currents governance achievements.
- Identify counterpart’s training needs in governance and suggest a recommended topics to be delivered to the target audience.
- Perform one day training to transfer the governance knowledge to the trainees.
- Provide the PFMA objective 1 team with a detail report of his/her remarks and evaluation of the attendance’s levels and contraptions.
Schedule of Deliverables
Deliverable |
Details |
Expected Delivery Date |
Study the current situation about the governance at ISTD |
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7-May-2023 LOE (1) |
Deliver the governance training session |
Conduct the training session |
8-May-2023 LOE (1) |
Final Report |
USAID Template- Final summary of the assignment |
Upon Completion LOE 8-May-2023 |
REPORTING:
The Consultant will report to the PFMA’ Objective 1 Team Lead.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering or public administration; higher education degree preferred.
- 10+ years of professional experience in issues related to project management, Governance, and performance management (KPI), knowledge management, strategies, benchmarking, data analysis and its transition to applications and execution.
- Good experience in providing similar training courses.
- Knowledge of strategies and business methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, ISO 9000 methodologies.
- Ability to provide the knowledge transfer sessions and provide a clear, well-written materials, training scenarios, KPI analysis and results, requirements’ documents, functional specs, service cards, and to conduct oral presentations.
- Ability to interview and facilitate focused group discussions as well as to work collaboratively and build consensus among process owners and the project components.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Certification or advanced courses in business process reengineering, TOT with Microsoft MS Office Suite and process improvement applications such as ARIS or similar discipline.
- Ability to use business, workflow, and organizational modeling software tools.
- English and Arabic fluency