Consultancy - Support to TSIs

Consultancy* - Support to TSIs
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Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
TRADE is seeking to hire a short-term consultant to work with TRADE to assist
in coaching several Egyptian Export Councils to determine their strategic
priorities and plan of action by:
* Providing the step-by-step methodology
* Providing the templates to quickly structure the information that is necessary for the analysis
* Coaching each of the ECs during two-day workshops each, to determine their strategic priorities
* Finalizing a simple document that summarizes the strategic priorities of each EC, including the support activities that the project will deploy to support the action plans of each EC.

Period of Performance: on/about January ‎23, ‎2023, to o/a April ‎27, ‎2023
Total LOE: ‎45 person days*

Assignment Background

The R2 TRADE Team has been supporting the Export Councils to improve their
services and has prepared capacity building plans to guide the project 's
support priorities to each of the councils. The capacity building plans
outline their needs in terms of improving their services and their structure.
While R2 TRADE will continue, in the short term, to work with ECs in improving
their service offer, it is also evident that to improve the ECs[‎1]' and other
TSIs'[‎2] long-term sustainability and capacity to provide effective and
relevant services to their members, those organizations need to address some
basic challenges/weaknesses that affect their organizational performance. The
main common challenge that affects most TRADE partner ECs are related to their
strategic priorities in terms of:
* Objectives, value proposition and business model/financing model
* Key focus in terms of clients/sub-sectors and target markets
* Client management (including CRM systems)
* Service architecture
* Result measurement and targets

Activities


This R2 TRADE activity will put particular emphasis on determining the
strategic priorities in a simple but well-structured format that:
* Will guide and provide strong focus to the operations of the ECs
* Help them communicate their priorities both internally to staff and externally to key stakeholders
* Determine the short and mid-term support needs of each of the ECs and how TRADE will be able to facilitate that support.
Deliverables:
‎1. Virtual presentation to several TSIs, including ‎4-‎6 ECs on the importance
of the activity and the process that will be followed to determine their
strategic priorities and of the information (including formats) that each of
the TSIs will need to prepare in advance

‎2. Provision of all the formats necessary to prepare the information and
guidelines on how to complete them

‎3. Two-day Workshop with the FEC to determine their strategic priorities and
plan of action, and three days analysis with R2 TRADE team

‎4. Two-day Workshop with the EEC to determine their strategic priorities and
plan of action, and three days analysis with R2 TRADE team

‎5. Two-day Workshop with the ECPP to determine their strategic priorities and
plan of action, and three days analysis with R2 TRADE team

‎6. Two-day Workshop with the AECE to determine their strategic priorities and
plan of action, and three days analysis with R2 TRADE team

‎7. and ‎8. Two brief documents outlining all the main features of the
strategic priorities for each the FEC and EEC including the following
information:
* Key Objectives and Vision
* Focus: priority clients/subsectors and target markets
* Client management
* Service architecture and main pillars of action
* Key targets of each pillar of action
* Result measurement system and KPIs
Required Qualifications:
* ‎20+ years of experience in trade support institutions management
* Extensive track record in institutional development and strategy development of trade promotion and business support organizations
* International experience in organizational assessment, economic and market analysis, business development and international development assistance
* Wide expertise in international marketing and trade
* Hands-on experience establishing and directing organizational operation on country and regional levels
* Excellent planning and organization skills

Project Overview and Role:
USAID 's Trade Reform and Development in Egypt (TRADE) project builds on
decades of U.S. investments in Egyptian businesses and economic policy with
the aim of substantially increasing Egyptian exports from Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs). The TRADE project focuses on six selected sectors:
engineering products, food processing, home textiles, ready-made garments,
chemicals, and building materials. Through the project, USAID works with the
Government of Egypt to improve the trade and investment policy environment and
reduce barriers to trade. USAID also partners with business associations and
export councils to strengthen the trade services ecosystem for small- and
medium-sized exporters, as well as with private companies to help them access
new international markets to increase export sales. TRADE tackles many trade
and investment-related issues to sustainably increase Egyptian exports and
drive economic growth.
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