Short Term Communications Consultant

**ABOUT INSTIGLIO**:
Instiglio is a fast-growing global and niche International Development advisory firm, whose mission is to ensure that every cent spent on delivering social services to the people who need them the most has the greatest possible impact. Instiglio aims to be instrumental in shaping expectations, raising standards, and promoting best practices of the international development community's impact on the world. Its mission is achieved by: (1) continuously innovating on the existing Results-Based-Financing (RBF) and capacity-building tools, uncovering new approaches, and openly sharing its experience and insights with the development community; and (2) improving public sector performance and delivery in low
- and middle-income countries through deep strategic engagement and technical assistance.

During our journey, we have worked with a range of actors; including governments (e.g., Governments of Colombia, Peru, Morocco, and Egypt), multilateral development banks (e.g., World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank), development aid agencies (e.g., USAID, MCC, DFID, GAC, SECO), service providers (e.g., Educate Girls, Mercy Corps, World Vision), and private foundations (e.g., IKEA Foundation, UBS Optimus Foundation, Fundación Corona, Fundación Bancolombia). Instiglio has successfully launched RBF projects in over 25 Latin American, African, and South Asian countries, totaling over $500 million tied to results. Particularly important milestones include the world's first Development Impact Bond (education, India); the first Social Impact Bond launched in a middle-income
country (workforce development, Colombia); the first Outcomes Fund (poverty graduation, Kenya and Uganda); and the launch of performance-based contracts with governments in Africa (employability, Morocco). Instiglio has also advised pioneer RBF transactions in the areas of agriculture and rural development in Colombia and Peru with the Canadian (GAC) and Swiss (SECO) development aid agencies, respectively. Furthermore, Instiglio has increasingly supported governments in strengthening their systems of delivery through multi-year reform processes.

**THE TEAM**:
We are a diverse team of 50+ people, representing 10+ nationalities, with offices in Colombia (HQ), Kenya, Morocco, Peru, and the USA. Our team of practitioners has extensive development and government experience, including previous roles in impact evaluation (e.g., J-PAL), development banks (e.g., World Bank), country governments (e.g., Rwanda Ministry of Finance, Colombia's National Planning Department, Congress of Colombia), and research (e.g., Harvard's Center for International Development).

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**:
Instiglio's journey started with the integration of Results-Based Financing (RBF) in development projects and programs 10 years ago in Colombia. So far, we've done so in more than 100 projects, in over 25 countries, for more than 30 funding institutions. Some of those early projects have demonstrated the transformative power of RBF for the institutions that participate and the people they serve. Instiglio is now at a point where we would like to amplify our impact significantly. We aim to grow our ultimate impact much more significantly (100x) over the next 5-10 years than might naturally happen at 50% growth yearly. As such, we undertook a major strategic review in 2021 around how to accelerate our impact and we are now in the process of writing our 5-year Strategic Plan in order to operationalize this vision.

Instiglio is interested in contracting an individual consultant to cover the following key pieces:

- Impact report for our 10th anniversary: Create a report on our story and impact over the past decade, which will serve to recognize our team and external partners, position our brand and impact story, and build some hype about what comes next
- Long term strategy plan: The consultant will help us turn our strategy into a short, inspiring, clear, and compelling document that can be shared externally
- Fundraising pitch support: The consultant will help us refine our fundraising pitch documents and presentations, supporting tailoring for different contexts
- Blog writing: This entails interviewing our Partners and bringing their ideas to life through ghost writing or copy-editing their articles

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Excellent writing skills
- Storytelling skills
- Experience in global development (we would prefer experience working on communication teams for multilaterals, bilaterals, big philanthropic funders, academia, think-tanks, public sector, as opposed to service providers or non profits; but all is welcomed)
- Able to translate complex ideas into compelling and clear narratives
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English (C2)

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Experience with Results-Based Financing
- Strategy consulting experience
- Marketing experience
- Fundraising experience (unrestricted grants)
- Second stage growth v