Education for the Modern Economy

PO Box 96690-80110, Mombasa, Kenya

Info@HatuaNetwork.org

Hatua Network 5-Year Strategic Planning Consultant TOR

Organization Overview:

Hatua Network’s mission is to end generational poverty by preparing promising youth from low-
income families to thrive in Kenya's modern economy. We do this by providing youth with
scholarships, mentoring focused on soft skills, and links to professional networks.

Our Scholarships provide for students’ educational needs through high school and university. Our
in-person and online mentoring programs develop students’ communication, collaboration,
emotional intelligence, problem-solving, and responsibility skills. Our career coaching and
employer partnerships programs support our students to build professional networks and secure
job opportunities. As a result youth that would have dropped out of school after primary and
remained trapped in a cycle of generational poverty instead build successful careers.

We are on the verge of serving 1,000 youth, including 200 alumni who have completed our
program. Among our alumni, 94% are working within 1 year of graduating, earning an average
income of 40,000/- Ksh per month. This is 3x the average total household income of students who
join our program and 5x the average income of Kenyans without education. Projected outward,
this will result in a 20x return on investment in increased lifetime income.

This not only transforms the lives of our alumni but also creates a fundamental change in their
family’s circumstances. Already, our alumni have helped educate more than 300 children and
youth, including younger siblings, nieces, nephews, and neighbors.

Looking ahead, we intend to make our mentoring curricula and career coaching resources
available to organizations free of charge to increase access to soft skills education in Africa.

By providing youth born into poverty with access to education, mentoring, and professional
networks- the same opportunities we all aspire to provide to our own children- we successfully
end the cycle of generational poverty. To us, this is the full meaning of equity. Read more about
Hatua’s work in our latest Annual Report.

Hatua’s 5 Year Goals:

● Expand our scholarship, mentoring, & professional network programs in Mombasa, Kenya
● Incorporate existing and future library programs into Hatua’s mission
● Through partnerships with other organizations, make soft skills mentoring accessible to
youth across Kenya and beyond
● Strengthen our partnerships to include Kenya’s top firms and a broad base of multi-year
donors
 ● Develop a customized database to track and measure our KPIs
● Conduct an external evaluation to confirm the efficacy of our programs
● Optimize our team structure and culture
● Develop our Kenyan & US Boards to best support our governance and growth

Objectives of this Task:

In close collaboration with Hatua’s leadership, develop and document Hatua’s next 5 year
strategic plan, covering the period from Oct 1st 2024 to Sept 30th 2029. The plan should be
ambitious and achievable. We aim to begin this project in Nov 2023 and complete it by the end of
Jan 2024.

● Landscape Analysis / Benchmarking

○ Identify a relevant pool of peers, map Hatua’s impact and value relative to peers
● Programmatic Objectives & Strategies
○ Conduct a SWOT analysis to understand which elements are driving or impeding
progress toward our goals
○ Establish Hatua’s programmatic goals, priorities, and strategies based on our
mission, strengths, weaknesses, and context
■ Question and validate our goals, refine them and make them smart
■ Identify critical capabilities to build, such as recruiting and talent
development, data and technology, expertise in critical areas, learning and
innovation, and partnerships
○ Update Hatua’s Theory of Change
○ Establish objectives and strategies for partnerships with mentors, employers and
peer organizations
● Intended Impact
○ Define the results Hatua will achieve over the next 5 years
○ Determine the KPIs we will measure and monitor
○ Identify the important questions or knowledge gaps that we must address to
achieve our goals for impact
● Team Structure & Culture
○ Recommend Hatua’s ideal organigram to achieve our 5 year goals
○ Clarify roles and responsibilities
○ Develop a strategy for recruiting, talent development, and succession throughout
all levels of the organization
○ Identify the main attributes of Hatua’s culture including strengths and weaknesses
■ Recommend ways to maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses
● Funding Model
○ Create a strategy to increase Hatua’s revenue, focused on multi-year funding
○ Identify the internal capacity needed to cultivate and steward these funders
● Financial Model
○ In close collaboration with Hatua’s leadership and finance manager, develop a 5
year budget that incorporates the implementation costs of all aspects of our
strategic plan
○ This can either be within the scope of this task or as a secondary task to begin
after the strategic plan is complete
Expected Main Activities of this Task:

● Engage with Hatua’s leadership to further clarify the objectives of the Strategic Plan, and
understand the organization’s main goals and desired impact
● Review organizational documents and data provided by Hatua
● Identify peer organizations, conduct benchmarking / landscape analysis
● Design stakeholder engagement and engagement data collection tools
○ Stakeholders to be invited by Hatua, including founders, team, board members,
alumni, mentors, employer partners, leaders of peer organizations, industry experts
and funders
● Facilitate conversations with stakeholders using questions and activities to gather input
○ Set guardrails to focus input on key objectives
● Summarize key input and recommendations, share with Hatua’s leadership, and agree
together on the conclusions to incorporate into Hatua’s Strategic Plan
● Draft all components of Hatua’s 5 Year Strategic Plan in line with the objectives above
● Collect and incorporate final feedback from Hatua’s leadership
● Write a short, clear summary of the Strategic Plan for a wide audience

Skills & Expertise Requirements:

We are seeking a consultant who is deeply passionate about our mission to end generational
poverty. In order to allocate our resources wholeheartedly toward this cause, we aim to hire a
consultant or consulting team ready to deliver exceptional results at a rate that aligns with our
budget and reflects our mission-driven focus.

The ideal consultant for this task has the following skills and expertise:
● Demonstrated experience in nonprofit strategic planning and a history of successful
strategic planning engagements
● Commitment to aligning the plan with Hatua’s mission and values
● Readiness to work collaboratively with Hatua’s leadership and stakeholders. Ability to
facilitate productive discussions and consensus-building
● Deep respect for local wisdom and expertise. Familiarity with the Kenyan context is an
added advantage
● Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills to assess the organization's current state,
identify risks and opportunities, and make sound recommendations
● Proficiency in project management to ensure the plan's execution stays on track
● Strong written communication skills for effective plan presentation
● Availability and commitment to seeing the process through to completion

Application Guidelines:

Thank you for your interest in helping us to chart our next 5 years of impact. To apply for this role
please email your CV, a relevant work sample, your proposed approach and timeline for
developing the strategic plan, and a budget to gabi@hatuanetwork.org by Oct 20th, 2023 using
the subject line "Strategic Plan Consultant Application - [Your Full Name]".