Background information about the job or company

We are seeking a highly experienced consultant trainer and strategic advisory professional to lead high-impact assignments in institutional strengthening, strategic planning, water-sector economics, and organizational performance. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, facilitate senior stakeholder engagements, and support practical learning on strategy, results-based financing, and institutional reform.

Responsibilities or duties

• Lead multidisciplinary consulting and training assignments, ensuring quality, coherence and timely delivery.
• Design and deliver executive-level sessions on strategic planning, institutional reform, organizational performance and results-based financing.
• Guide assignment architecture, methodology, quality assurance and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops involving government institutions, development partners and other stakeholders.
• Integrate practical case studies, sector evidence and real-world institutional challenges into learning sessions.
• Provide technical input into proposals, concept notes, consultancy reports and thought-leadership materials.
• Support strategic and corporate planning processes, including performance frameworks and implementation reviews.

Qualifications or requirements

Academic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Public Policy, Strategic Planning, Management Sciences, Business Administration or an equivalent field.
• Training and certification in the Balanced Scorecard.
• Professional training in Corporate Strategy, Management, Business, Accounting, Change Management, or Human Resource Management is an advantage.

Professional Experience

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience.
• Proven command of commitment/transaction-cost framing and results-based financing.
• Demonstrated experience in water-sector institutional reform and service-delivery models.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic and/or corporate planning and management support.
• Demonstrated working experience with the Kenyan public sector, particularly the water sector.
• Experience working with donor partners, government partners and other development stakeholders.

Technical Competencies

• Strategic and corporate planning; institutional reform; results-based financing; Balanced Scorecard; water-sector economics; stakeholder engagement; organizational performance management.

Key Skills and Attributes

• Excellent executive-level presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical, strategic and problem-solving ability.
• High professional integrity and sound judgement.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver outcome-oriented assignments.
• Proficiency in English; Kiswahili is an added advantage.

Training & Facilitation Experience

• Proven experience as a consultant trainer, facilitator, technical adviser, or subject-matter expert.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical and professional concepts into practical, participant-centred learning.
• Training of Trainers (ToT) certification is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of adult learning methodologies and competency-based facilitation.

Consultancy Role Focus:

• Overall technical leadership of strategic planning, institutional reform and water-sector economic assignments, including quality assurance and stakeholder coordination.

Mode of Engagement:

• Successful candidates will be engaged as external consultant trainers on a need basis.
• Assignments may involve training delivery, technical advisory support, curriculum/content development, workshops, facilitation, and related consultancy services.
• Further details, including assignment scope, duration, and professional fees, will be provided during the initial engagement meeting.

• Lead multidisciplinary consulting and training assignments, ensuring quality, coherence and timely delivery.
• Design and deliver executive-level sessions on strategic planning, institutional reform, organizational performance and results-based financing.
• Guide assignment architecture, methodology, quality assurance and delivery commitments.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops involving government institutions, development partners and other stakeholders.
• Integrate practical case studies, sector evidence and real-world institutional challenges into learning sessions.
• Provide technical input into proposals, concept notes, consultancy reports and thought-leadership materials.
• Support strategic and corporate planning processes, including performance frameworks and implementation reviews.

• Excellent executive-level presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical, strategic and problem-solving ability.
• High professional integrity and sound judgement.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver outcome-oriented assignments.
• Proficiency in English; Kiswahili is an added advantage.

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Public Policy, Strategic Planning, Management Sciences, Business Administration or an equivalent field.
• Training and certification in the Balanced Scorecard.
• Professional training in Corporate Strategy, Management, Business, Accounting, Change Management, or Human Resource Management is an advantage.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience.
• Proven command of commitment/transaction-cost framing and results-based financing.
• Demonstrated experience in water-sector institutional reform and service-delivery models.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic and/or corporate planning and management support.
• Demonstrated working experience with the Kenyan public sector, particularly the water sector.
• Experience working with donor partners, government partners and other development stakeholders.
• Strategic and corporate planning; institutional reform; results-based financing; Balanced Scorecard; water-sector economics; stakeholder engagement; organizational performance management.
• Proven experience as a consultant trainer, facilitator, technical adviser, or subject-matter expert.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical and professional concepts into practical, participant-centred learning.
• Training of Trainers (ToT) certification is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of adult learning methodologies and competency-based facilitation.