Engagement of a Facilitation Team for a Three-day Governance and Strategic Leadership Workshop

Engagement of a Facilitation Team for a Three-day Governance and Strategic Leadership Workshop

• The Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a non-governmental, non-profit making coalition, made up of organizations with a shared vision to transform Nigeria into a country where every citizen is food and nutrition secured. We pursue this lofty goal by engaging government and non-state actors to raise awareness, sustain commitment and ac...

Engagement of a Facilitation Team for a Three-day Governance and Strategic Leadership Workshop

• Job Type Full Time , Onsite
• Qualification MBA/MSc/MA , PhD/Fellowship
• Experience 5 - 10 years
• Location Abuja
• Job Field RFP / RFQ / EOI

Procurement number: CS-SUNN/2026 – 10/001

Date of Committee Review: 29th October 2026

Proposed Date of Workshop: 4th – 6th November 2026

Location: Abuja

Background

Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) is a multi-stakeholder civil society alliance advancing food and nutrition security through policy advocacy, accountability, systems strengthening, capacity development, and citizen engagement. CS-SUNN intends to convene a practical three-day workshop for its Board of Trustees (7), Steering Committee (8), and National Secretariat Management (7).

The workshop will establish a shared institutional view, clarify mandates and decision rights, strengthen strategic and fiduciary oversight, improve the governance-management interface, and produce time-bound governance actions. It is a facilitated learning and application process, not a substitute for a full independent organisational, financial or programme evaluation.

Purpose

CS-SUNN seeks an independent corporate organization, firm/agency, or facilitation team to prepare, design, and deliver the workshop; consolidate its governance tools and decisions; and facilitate a subsequent implementation review. The approach should combine concise expert input with substantial application to CS-SUNN’s circumstances.

Objectives

• Provide a shared understanding of CS-SUNN’s vision, mandate and strategic priorities.
• Clarify mandates, fiduciary duties, authority limits and accountabilities of the three leadership groups.
• Distinguish governance, strategic oversight and management responsibilities, including reserved, delegated, consulted and reported matters.
• Strengthening oversight of strategy, performance, finance, risk, safeguarding, ethics and sustainability.
• Identify governance strengths, gaps, risks and opportunities.
• Agree practical recommendations and a prioritised 90-day and 12-month Governance Improvement Plan with owners, milestones and review arrangements.

Scope of Work

Preparation

• Leadership briefing to confirm scope, participants, confidentiality, decision authority and outputs.
• Inception note, workplan, document request list and final agenda.
• Confidential pre-workshop questionnaire and anonymised synthesis.
• Focused review of governance, strategy, performance, financial, risk and compliance documents.
• Tailored cases, tools, participant materials and evaluation instruments.

Workshop delivery

• Facilitate all three days using approximately 30 percent expert input and 70 percent applied learning.
• Use plenary dialogue, group work, case simulation, mandate and decision mapping, peer exchange, reflection and action planning.
• Manage time, participation, sensitive discussion and psychological safety.
• Close each day with a structured reflection and decision log; assign unresolved matters for further work rather than force premature agreement.

Reporting and follow-up

• Consolidate decisions, commitments, unresolved matters and evaluation findings.
• Finalise the decision-rights matrix, governance calendar, dashboard requirements and Governance Improvement Plan.
• Facilitate an implementation review approximately 90 days after the workshop.

Deliverables

Deliverable Minimum content

1. Inception package Inception note, workplan, final agenda, document request and confirmed facilitation approach.

2. Diagnostic package Questionnaire, anonymised governance snapshot and baseline synthesis.

3. Workshop package Participant workbook and/or slides, cases, practical tools and evaluation instruments.

4. Applied governance outputs Mandate and decision-rights matrix, governance calendar, dashboard requirements and 90-day/12-month improvement plan.

5. Final workshop report Decisions, commitments, unresolved issues, evaluation results and recommended follow-up actions.

6. Follow-up review note Implementation status, evidence, barriers and agreed corrective actions following the 90-day review.

Proposed Facilitation Team

We propose a three-person core team to provide senior governance leadership, strong group-process support, and focused technical expertise. Bidders may combine the co-facilitation and documentation functions if capacity is demonstrated. Any alternative configuration must show full coverage without weakening participation, documentation or technical quality.

Role Core responsibilities Minimum profile

Lead Governance Facilitator / Team Lead Overall design; document synthesis; core facilitation; sensitive dialogue; decision synthesis; quality assurance; final accountability. Senior nonprofit governance and board-development specialist with strong adult-learning and strategic leadership facilitation experience.

Co-Facilitator and Learning/Documentation Specialist Group exercises; participation support; decision and action capture; learning assessment; evaluation; drafting of tools and report. Demonstrated participatory facilitation, learning evaluation, documentation and action-tracking experience.

Technical Legal Resource Person – Governance, Legal Compliance and Institutional Risk Provide expert legal guidance on nonprofit governance, statutory and regulatory compliance, fiduciary duties of Board members, conflict-of-interest management, ethics, accountability, and institutional risk. Review relevant provisions of the CS-SUNN’s Constitution and Governing Manual and recommend amendments to strengthen governance, clarify roles and decision-making authority, and ensure consistency with applicable laws and regulations. A qualified legal practitioner with an LL.B. and a current licence to practise law in Nigeria, with at least 7 years of relevant post-call experience, including demonst