Training Specialist
TAP EG - USAID/Honduras’ Projects Executed by the Community (PEC)
Reports to: Project Director for TAP EG
Location: Remote in Honduras
Status: Local National
Period of Performance: ~4-5 Months
IDG was awarded the USAID Technical Assistance Project for Economic Growth (TAP EG) under the OASIS Small Business (Pool 1) contract mechanism. TAP EG provides technical leadership, advisory support, data collection and analysis, and evaluations and assessments while delivering knowledge management support and capacity-building services to assist in the design and implementation of USAID programs, projects, and activities globally. In addition, TAP EG conducts a range of applied research—including macroeconomic analyses, financial analyses, policy studies, private sector assessments, and stakeholder landscape assessments—and provides on-demand technical assistance services across a wide range of USAID sectors. TAP EG services are available to USAID Bureaus, offices, and operating units who buy into the mechanism.
Position Description:
Increased insecurity, high gang violence, and high poverty levels, in addition to other contextual factors, have resulted in a crisis that has increased vulnerabilities among historically marginalized populations, including Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Honduras. To address this crisis, USAID Honduras - through the Projects Executed by the Community (PEC) model - identified and harnessed the power of locally-led CLA (Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting) to promote a bottom-up community engagement approach that identifies context-specific priorities for building community assets and solutions to advancing equity for historically marginalized racial and ethnic communities. The PEC model allows communities to continuously learn through audits and stakeholder feedback, adapt to changing situations, and work collectively with accountability. The main outcome of PEC is an empowered and self-reliant community that develops, implements, monitors and evaluates inclusive action plans in collaboration with public and private stakeholders.
The USAID Racial and Ethnic Equity (REE) Team seeks to work with TAP EG to customize, in collaboration with Indigenous communities, the design and implementation of the replication of the PEC model in at least 1 USAID Mission. We hope to combine peer-to-peer and co-creation strategies to design a tailored PEC model for another USAID Mission.
The pilot and replication of the PEC model requires close learning and coordination with FHIS. The training specialist will be required to work closely with FHIS to gain knowledge of their PEC implementation processes and training implementation. The purpose of this position is to ensure that the knowledge from field implementation of PEC is transferred into the two manuals that IDG will be developing, the employee and the participant handbooks, as well as providing training to FHIS when the handbooks are completed.
IDG seeks a Training Specialist to serve on the USAID Racial and Ethnic Equity (REE) Team’s Projects Executed by the Community (PEC) Replication Activity.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
◦ To work closely with FHIS staff to ensure their understanding of the intricacies of the PEC model and training.
◦ To develop a deep understanding of FHIS operations in the field of PEC implementation using the PEC modules and pieces of training.
◦ Collaborate with other team members to incorporate findings into employee and participant handbooks.
◦ Provide Honduras and FHIS context in all deliverables.
◦ To train FHIS and other PEC pilot and replication actors in implementing the PEC model using the replication manual and handbooks.
• Deliverables:
◦ PEC Training package/presentation
◦ Employee handbook
◦ Participant handbook
Qualifications:
• Advanced degree in international development, public administration, development analytics, economics, knowledge management, or related fields.
• At least five years of progressive experience in public financial management, democracy and governance, economic growth, and infrastructure development within the Latin America region; and managing interdisciplinary teams, preferably with demonstrated experience leading similar localization activities in the Latin America region.
• Extensive professional experience working with USAID and knowledge of their operations, regulations, reporting requirements, and formats.
• A practiced understanding of USAID/Honduras’ Projects Executed by the Community (PEC) is preferred.
• Experience working with FHIS preferred.
• Knowledge and experience implementing bottom-up, country-led approaches to development.
• Demonstrated experience working on training USAID or relevant government entities.
• Experience with comprehensive economic analysis, field data collection, surveys, and infrastructure work, preferably concerning socioeconomics, race, and ethnicity.
• Outstanding experience working alongside local actors, preferably in Latin America.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong multicultural, interpersonal, and supervision skills.
• Demonstrated leadership, strategic planning, and adaptive management skills and experience leading a team of several personnel.
• Experience working with or collecting data from ethnic communities preferred, especially with the Garifuna and Lenca communities.
• Fluency in English and Spanish is required
