DESCRIPTION OF THE MISSION:

1. Based in Luanda, the change support expert will be part of the technical team. This team is in charge of:

§  Identifying needs in terms of expertise and ensure the mobilization of companies, public and private experts, implementation partners;

§  Guiding and co-leading the work of companies, experts and implementation partners;

§  Preparing and participating in steering committees and technical committees;

§  Ensuring the quality, internal and external coherence of the project, particularly with other ongoing programmes in the intervention areas.

§  The expert is expected to operate at both strategic and operational levels, ensuring effective coordination with institutional stakeholders and alignment with project governance mechanisms.

2. More specifically on his theme, the resident expert in change support will mainly be responsible for the following:

§  Lead the co-creation of the change management strategy and plan with the Project Team and national counterparts,

§  Lead the implementation of the change management strategy and plan;  

§  Support the implementation of the roadmaps planned in the AGEPI project; identify and analyse the risks linked to the adoption of the change induced by the project/reform and propose the implementation of mitigation measures;

§  Propose detailed analyses of the impact of change and disseminate them to stakeholders;

§  Analyse stakeholders; design and implement stakeholder management activities while contributing to the identification and mitigation of resistance;

§  Support the efforts of the Ministry of Finance by proposing the creation and effective operation of a network of change facilitators to support the deployment of the reform at the level of the Ministries and public institutions concerned;

§  Identify and analyse learning needs and design and implement training plans to strengthen change capacities, in close collaboration with the project manager, experts and beneficiaries;

§  Participate in the establishment of the project monitoring and evaluation system: review of the logical framework and definition of relevant monitoring indicators, information on the baseline situation, implementation of monitoring tools at the level of primary and secondary beneficiaries;

§  Work in close collaboration with the Project Team in order to adapt the monitoring tools to the different activities.

The expert will be expected to apply recognized change management approaches (e.g. stakeholder mapping, change impact analysis, communication and training strategies), while adapting them to the Angolan institutional context.

The detailed methodology and approach to the assignment will be requested from shortlisted candidates at a later stage of the selection process (technical note and interview).

MAIN EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

·         Scoping a change management Strategy;

·         Development of the following plans:

o   Strategy action plan;

o   Stakeholders engagement plan;

o   Training plan.

·         Design and implant the correlated M&E system;

·         Draw up the quarterly reports;

·         Elaboration of final evaluation report.

Deliverables will be validated by the Project Management Team in coordination with the main institutional counterparts.

An indicative timeline and detailed methodology for the production of deliverables will be defined during the inception phase.