Provider Network Initiative Consultant

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All requested items are required for consideration.     

Provide is seeking to engage a dynamic, engaging consultant with organizing and relationship-building experience to launch a pilot network building initiative.   

Provide is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, People of color, women, LGBQIA+, Trans and Nonbinary people, and those with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We prioritize applicants from our program states. These states are Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.   

About Provide

Founded in 1992, Provide is a national remote-only organization working to ensure there is access to abortion. We envision an equitable sexual and reproductive health system that cares for the whole person with dignity and respect, centering marginalized communities where access to abortion care is restricted.  

Provide offers free professional development for healthcare and social service providers to give accurate, informed, and non-judgmental referrals for abortion care. Through training and customized technical assistance, we partner with organizations to integrate abortion referral practices into their standards of care. We see the potential for every person to play a role in ensuring accessible abortion care. We focus on five of the most critical systems of care for people of reproductive age: substance use, domestic and sexual violence, HIV, primary care, and family planning. By centering client autonomy and addressing pregnancy within the context of whole-person care, we help providers proactively and compassionately respond to their community’s needs around abortion.   

Background  

Provide seeks to build and support a network of healthcare and social service providers to facilitate abortion and other stigmatized care referrals across the southeast region. This work is an opportunity to engage our abortion referrals training audiences beyond the training and to capitalize on the success of this initiative by building buy-in and partnership around Provide’s vision for equitable reproductive and sexual health in the southeast.  Both feedback from our external stakeholders and an analysis of the current landscape indicate that this proposed intervention is more relevant now than ever.  Since 2021, Provide has conducted two pieces of exploratory work to better understand the needs, motivations and interests of our external stakeholders.  The first was a survey distributed after the Dobbs decision, the Post-Roe Needs Assessment. The second piece of work was related to Provide’s exploration of advocacy work and involved interviews and a survey.  The findings of both pieces of work indicated a strong appetite for a network of providers devoted to providing support and sharing resources related to stigmatized care.  These findings are consistent with earlier needs assessment which indicated that over 90% of our trained sites would be potentially interested in joining a network of organizations committed to stigma-free inter-agency referrals.  This strong stakeholder interest, combined with funder support, and an external landscape that is driving care seekers and providers to find state-by-state and regional solutions to access, all point to a significant, persistent opportunity for Provide to develop a network of providers that meets stakeholder and landscape needs.   

Purpose  

The purpose of this consultancy will be to execute the work of engaging potential members of the network and hosting an initial kickoff meeting for the network.  Provide is interested in launching this network in one of the following two state groups: 

• State Group 1: Upper -Appalachia – This group includes Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia 
• Stage Group 2:  Southeast -  This group of states include Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.  

We ask that applicants base their proposals on ONLY ONE of those state groups. The consultant will work closely with the Senior Director of Programs and Deputy Director of Organizational Strategy to ensure execution of the work is aligned with agreed upon priorities and outcomes.   

Process  

The process is TBD by the consultant contingent upon approval by the Senior Director of Programs and Deputy Director of Organizational Strategy. Our initial vision for the project includes four stages:  

• Discovery: This includes providing any internal background documents and conducting any necessary internal interviews to get the consultant up-to-speed on the project. 
• Planning: Create outreach and initial event plan based on discovery information and network related metrics from Provide’s strategic plan 
• Implementation: Execute planned outreach and host kick-off event 
• Wrap-Up: Complete final deliverables and debriefs with Provide team 

Timeline 

September – February 2024 

Deliverables  

1. PFN Launch Work plan: Create implementation plan based concept memo, Strategic Plan KPIs, and other internal discovery docs  
2. Plan and execute first official PFN convening  
3. Document potential 2024-2025 priorities for group and create 2025 schedule of meetings 
4. Documented contact information and outreach notes for any leads and connections made as a result of engagement 

Budget 

The budget for this contract is $30,000 not inclusive of travel. Proposals should be in alignment with this range. 

Qualifications & Skills  

We are looking for someone with a strong commitment to equitable reproductive and sexual health care and experience working with healthcare and social service providers in one of the following systems of stigmatized care: Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Substance Use, or HIV Care. Applicants should have 7+ years of professional experience and demonstrated success in building buy-in with individuals and groups and facilitating joint action towards a common goal. Expertise in creating, documenting, and executing detailed outreach plans that communicate priorities, broad goals, and specific objectives, tactics and choice points for the work. The engagement will require a mix of in-person and virtual program outreach, relationship-building and group facilitation. Experience in these areas should be highlighted in the application materials.  Applicants based in the following Provide project states will be given priority in the application process: North Carolina, Kentucy, Tennessee, Virginia Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia. 

Application Process  

Please submit ONE PDF file that includes a letter of interest that explicitly addresses the qualifications and skills listed, resume/CV, sample of work product demonstrating your expertise and proposed scope of work.  Submissions without all of these items will not be considered.