ThaiNGO

1. OVERVIEW

Save the Children (SC) has been working in Thailand for over three decades. In 2019, SC Thailand had an annual budget of approximately USD $5.5 million and implemented programs directly benefitting over 340,000 children in the areas of education, child protection, humanitarian response, and child health and safety.

Save the Children Thailand is seeking a consultant(s) to support its resource mobilization efforts in Thailand. Under this TOR, SC Thailand is seeking consultant(s) to undertake two assignments. Prospective consultants may wish to undertake either one or both of the assignments.

2. CONSULTANCY OBJECTIVES

Multinational Corporate Donors:

The purpose of consultancy service provider is to research and identify at least 25 multinational companies working in Thailand or interested to invest in country that could be potential donors who are aligned with Save the Children’s focus on children as well as other criteria set out by SC Thailand (eg. They must pass SC’s due diligence requirements). A key deliverable of this consultancy is a mapping of corporate donors that includes data on (at a minimum) the following:

• Size of CSR budget.
• Funding priorities, sectors and/or geographic areas
• Grantees in Asia (with a focus on Thailand) and size of grants
• Application process, contact information, websites with relevant data
• Headquarters location
• Any existing relationship with SC
• Contacts

The list of potential corporate donors should be segmented by tiers indicating those donors with the highest potential. The consultant is then expected to meet with SC Thailand to determine how best to approach the donors and detail a 6-12-month engagement plan. The consultant should, to the extent possible, analyze the information gathered and identify themes or trends in the corporate philanthropic sector and present his/her findings, recommendations and engagement plan in a power point presentation to SC Thailand

Domestic Fundraising:

The purpose of consultancy service provider is to conduct a literature review of domestic fundraising to date; and, to identify and conduct face to face interviews of at least 15 international organizations, foundations and NGOs currently fundraising domestically in Thailand to understand the following:

• the scope and scale of their fundraising
• different fundraising channels including their success/failures
• different types of donors and how they have performed over last 5 years
• levels of investment and returns
• challenges experienced and any other insights in the domestic fundraising market.

SC is interested in understanding the above mentioned in relation to both domestic fundraising to benefit Thailand-based project and domestic fundraising to respond to other timely appeals/program throughout the world. Therefore, SC expects findings to be disaggregated. The consultant is expected to summarize the findings of the literature review, write up case studies of each IO/INGO interviewed, analyse the trends, issues and experiences and also present his/her findings as well as recommendations as to how SC Thailand should enter the domestic fundraising market.

3. SCOPE OF WORK

The key outputs will include: 1) Multinational Corporate Donors and 2) Domestic Fundraising as below.

Summary of outputs:

4. REPORTING

The consultant will report to Prasert Tepanart, National Director and Mark Pierce, MST Director

5. DURATION OF CONTRACT

The duration of this assignment will begin as soon as possible and ends by 31 December 2020.

6. COMPETENCIES

It is expected that the competency of the contracted consulting agency should meet the following requirements:

• Experience in market intelligence for resource mobilization and fundraising mapping for NGO business;
• Capable to work in data collection with research and fundraising identification as well as literature review for both multinational and domestic fundraising;
• Good understanding of fundraising nature including its scope and scale, different fundraising channels and other possible factors in this area of business
• Experience in conducting similar assignment in Thailand (for corporate or non-profit);
• Ability to work within strict deadlines.

7. APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Applications should be addressed to Save the Children via email:

THA_Procurement_BKK@savethechildren.org

Not later than 18th November 2020. 

Please include:

• Expression of interest (Cover Letter)
• Resume/CV
• Quotation with the profession fee/rate of each activity
• Additional documents include Scan of ID card/Passport; Bank details

Please indicate in the subject as “Application for selection process: Resource Mobilization Consultancy - Thailand”. Only shortlisted consultancy service provider will be notified.

Also, please note that we open for all potential candidates to apply separately for each key deliverable; this means if you are interested just only working for Multinational Corporate Donor, please submit your interest along with budget for this job. Or, if you are only interest just only Domestic Fundraising, please submit your interest along with the budget for this job. If you consider that you can work for both key deliverables and have a team to work on that, please submit your interest along with a total budget for this job.

The notified consultancy service provider will come in/phone in/online meeting for further discussion (with a chance to ask key questions) in regards to the submitting resume/CV or proposal.

8. BUDGET RANGE

Multinational Corporate Donors: USD $ 3500 – 5,000

Domestic Fundraising: USD $ 7,000 – 10,000