Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) is seeking to engage a qualified and competent firm to build the technical report writing skills of PIND program/project teams using coaching and mentoring to improve the overall quality of its documented reports.

PIND is a Nigerian non-profit Foundation established in 2010 with initial funding by Chevron Corporation to support a portfolio of socio-economic development programs for Nigeria’s Niger Delta in order to improve standards of living of communities in the region.

PIND supports projects in collaboration with a diverse range of donor partners including bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, federal and state government agencies in Nigeria, private companies and foundations. With an overarching goal of increasing income and employment in the region, the Foundation has four distinct but interrelated program areas. They are:

● An economic development program focused on generating opportunities for pro-poor market development and employment generation.
● A capacity building program that will build the service delivery and engagement capacity of government, civil society and communities.
● A peace-building program that strengthens conflict resolution mechanisms for enabling integrated peace and economic growth.
● An analysis & advocacy program that improves analysis and understanding of systemic constraints to growth in the Niger Delta region.

The PIND team carries out various levels of program/project management activities aimed towards achieving the goal of the organization. As a learning organization, PIND requires that the tacit knowledge gained by its team in the course of implementing activities be transferred into explicit knowledge which can be accessed and used by members of the organization to improve planning and delivery of projects, increase performance at all levels and share organizational results and outcomes with stakeholders.

Objective of Assignment

PIND teams transfer their tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge by producing various forms of report depending on the type of activity the knowledge is generated from. Examples of documentations produced in PIND include quarterly technical M&E narrative reports, trip reports, meeting reports, research/scoping study reports, and activity reports PIND held a 3-day report writing training workshop for its long term consultants in 2015 which looked at effective writing: planning, structure and language and now desires to use a coaching and mentoring system to help institutionalize knowledge gained.

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