Role Description Prevail Fund is exploring a new area of giving, and this consultancy will help assess whether there is a strong enough implementer landscape to support it. We are looking for a Senior Implementation and Field Consultant to join us for roughly three months to assess promising livelihoods interventions and the organizations delivering them. The consultant will assess delivery models, operational capacity, and the practical risks of scaling. This is a rare opportunity to shape a major strategic decision for a potential new fund. You’ll work closely with Claudia, Varsha, and the research team to support the calls, field visits, and operational assessments behind Prevail’s scoping work. You will help determine whether organizations in this sector have the operational strength, leadership, growth potential, and delivery model needed to absorb funding and deliver impact as part of a potential fund. The core components of this role are to: - Pressure-test implementers. - Co-lead screening calls with senior leaders of livelihoods organizations to assess whether their delivery model is credible, aligned with the evidence, and capable of absorbing funding and delivering impact. - Ensure efficient, effective field visits through thorough preparation and tools. - Write the operational read-ups for each organization, covering budget, scale, growth trajectory, geographic footprint, MEL maturity, government relationships, leadership strength, absorptive capacity, and key risks or flags. - Set up the sector conversations by identifying implementers, funders, and field experts. - Get in the field by joining visits to implementing organizations, walking through their operations, and comparing delivery models. - Help sketch the fund by contributing to the first cut of the fund design: allocations, deployment pace, grant sizes, and the team needed to run it. - Contribute to the recommendation by drafting the implementation sections of the decision memo. Qualifications - 8-15+ years working with NGOs, philanthropy, or implementing organizations in low- and middle-income countries, in program management, field operations, or implementation. - Experience working with on-the-ground NGO teams in low- and middle-income countries, ideally in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia. - Strong relationship management skills, building rapport quickly with NGO leaders and staff. - Strong logistics and organization skills for planning and running multi-country field visits end-to-end. - Sound judgment and independence, translating site visits into clear operational reads. Requirements - Experience running programs or organizations in low- and middle-income countries. - Ability to assess how an organization actually works beyond its own account of itself. - Comfort leading multi-country fieldwork from planning through execution. Benefits - Flexible working arrangements. - Competitive day rate, commensurate with experience. - Remote work with candidates ideally based within 2/+4 hours of Central Africa Time. - Travel expenses covered by Prevail Fund. Company Description Prevail is a new foundation dedicated to pursuing bold goals. We set a social change goal, find philanthropists who have a similar vision, raise a pooled fund, and then make grants. Rather than choosing a general issue area (e.g., education), each pooled fund chooses a simple, targeted goal. - Provided $55M in funding to date, to support 27 partners across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. - Helped partners to strengthen foundational learning outcomes for over 3 million children. - Hired 35+ mission-driven team members. - Executed dozens of in-field projects to help support key functions for our implementing partners.