Invitation to Tender for Training Consultancy (Project Planning and Fundraising)

Training Consultancy for Project Planning and Fundraising workshop in St Lucia

Start Date: Course dates: 24th – 28th of June 2024.

Preparation begins approximately one month prior to the workshop.
An exact start date will be discussed during interviews.

Duration of Contract: 10 - 20 days total over 1 year (June 2024 – June 2025)

Duration will be discussed during interviews.

Location: St Lucia (22nd – 28th June) & remote

Gross Salary: 8400 USD

Expenses Payable: Fauna & Flora will support expenses incurred for travel to and within

St. Lucia for the purposes of this consultancy. This will include international flights, domestic flights, accommodation and subsistence.

Location: St Lucia (22nd – 28th June) & remote

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world’s longest established international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

Fauna & Flora are looking to hire a consultant to deliver a training course and follow-up support for early career conservationists in the Caribbean. This opportunity will contribute to the ‘Building Caribbean civil society capacity in delivering sustainable financial strategies’ project in collaboration with Fauna & Flora and Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).

This training will focus on strengthening the skills of early-career conservationists working within priority KBAs to design effective conservation projects and secure restricted funding by applying for small grants. The training is based on ‘Institutional Fundraising for Conservation projects’, developed by Birdlife International and re-printed with support from CEPF, and delivered under CEPF Grant no. 63400 ‘Building Capacity in Project Design and Proposal Writing in the Eastern Afromontane Hotspot’.

For the workshop, Fauna & Flora will solicit participants from four Caribbean CSOs associated with the project as well as from other local CSOs, Universities and members of the Fauna & Flora and CEPF networks, within eligible countries as identified by CEPF.

Participants will be given the opportunity to obtain substantive feedback on their projects, and by the conclusion of the workshop they will have prepared a draft proposal for funding, which they will finalise and submit to a funding agency.

The closing date for applications is 22March 2024. Interviews are likely to take place during the week commencing 8 April 2024.