Sustainability and Impact Consultant for EpiC Thailand Project

Detailed Description of Tasks to be Performed:

The USAID Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) Project, implemented by FHI 360, is designed to break through remaining, persistent barriers to the 95-95-95 goals and promote self-reliant management of national HIV programs. In response to USAID Mission and country needs, EpiC will deliver efficient, affordable, results-based technical assistance and direct service delivery tailored to context and epidemiology that is effective in surging, scaling, and sustaining HIV services and systems for long-term epidemic control among key populations. In Thailand, EpiC supports numerous key population-led health service (KPLHS) organizations that focus on HIV cascade services to predominantly men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (TG) women populations.

EpiC also supports the financial sustainability of these organizations through engagement and advocacy with the National Health Security Office (NHSO) to provide increased reimbursements to KPLHS organizations, social enterprise development to provide additional program income, and support for diversified blended financing and market-driven opportunities through resource development business plans.

Furthermore, EpiC supports its KPLHS partners to document the measurable impacts of the innovations they use to improve the HIV cascade for the clients they serve. This documentation is also key to sustainability since it illustrates the key roles these organizations play in HIV epidemic control in Thailand – and globally through their replication and adaptability in other settings.

FHI 360 seeks consultant services to support these areas of sustainability and documentation of measurable impacts. Particular areas of support will include the following:

• Provide KPLHS partners with strategic planning and business plan development assistance that will diversify their resources in the future. This will include introducing them to a Sustainability Primer currently in development by FHI 360.
• Identify appropriate resource development opportunities for KPLHS partners and collaborate with them and FHI 360 to develop successful proposals and/or concept notes
• Work with KPLHS partners and FHI 360 to identify innovations and solutions that they have implemented to improve the HIV cascade of their clients and to provide support for data analysis and narrative writing to document these successes for a variety of audiences, including USAID, national and international conferences, and peer review articles.

Specific tasks the consultant will perform include:

1. Identify resource development opportunities for KPLHS partners based on their needs and capacities.
2. Develop business plans for selected KPLHS partners that incorporate innovative market-driven strategies appropriate to their organizational setting.
3. Contribute to proposals and/or concept papers in collaboration with FHI 360 and KPLHS partners that lead to diversified funding for KPLHS partners.
4. Identify areas of success or innovations implemented by KPLHS partners that merit documentation or presentation at national or international conferences or in peer-review publications.
5. Based on the above, collaborate with EpiC/FHI 360 and KPLHS partners to analyze data and construct narratives and/or articles that document the success of the KPLHS model and contributions by each organization.

Sample deliverables/Milestones (to be finalized during negotiations with selected consultant):

The consultant is expected to work in close cooperation with EpiC Thailand/FHI 360. Deliverables include, but are not limited to the following:

• Business plans for selected organizations that lay out appropriate blended financing and resource development opportunities.
• Capacity building plans that lay out the technical and organizational needs of KPLHS partners to meet their business plan goals.
• Proposals or concept notes based on organizational capacities and funder(s) needs.
• Conference abstracts based on data analyses related to each organization’s impacts and tailored to regional or international conference themes.
• Draft peer-review articles and/or success narratives and blogs based on data analyses similar to the above.
• Monthly progress reports.
• Comments/inputs on key documents.
• Meeting minutes and documentation.

Qualifications and Minimum Experience and Skills:

• A degree in public health, nursing, medicine, business administration or any other relevant public health and social science
• Knowledge and experience in working with key populations in HIV/AIDS programming.
• Experience in HIV/AIDS and PLHIV management, prevention, care, and treatment.
• Experience in proposal writing, sustainability and futures/business planning, and/or innovative financing.
• Minimum of 10 years of cumulative experience in public health, project management, evaluator or consultant and experience in working with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience working with a national or international development organization or agency.
• Experience in working with KP-led organizations.
• Fluent in spoken Thai and English.
• Thai citizen or other country citizen lawfully admitted to work legally in Thailand.
• Able to travel throughout Thailand.

Duration/Period of Performance: November 2022 to April 2023 with a possibility of extension.