Irish Red Cross: Request for Tender Face-to-Face Support Consultant April 2025
Request for Tender Face-to-Face Support Consultant April 2025
The Irish Red Cross background
The Irish Red Cross Society (IRC) is dedicated to serving people in need whether they are in Ireland or caught up in humanitarian crises in countries and regions throughout the globe. With our network of over 4,000 volunteers at over 70 branch locations across the Republic of Ireland, as well as our professional staff of more than 120 people, the IRC provides a wide range of health, mental health & wellbeing programmes for those in need.
The Irish Red Cross is also part of the global Red Cross Red Crescent Movement of over 190 National Societies across the globe and is guided by the fundamental principles of the Red Cross (Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality).
The Irish Red Cross is a registered charity.
Our Vision
To be the leading humanitarian organisation in a world where people’s essential humanitarian needs are provided for.
Our Mission
To provide humanitarian assistance, at home and abroad, to those most in need and inspire policy and attitudinal change
Our work
- Preventing and alleviating human suffering, protecting life and health and ensuring respect for all.
- Helping those who are most vulnerable to prepare, withstand, and recover from emergencies in theircommunities.
- Restoring families who have been separated by war, forced migration, or other circumstances.
- Delivering first aid and psychological first aid training and providing first aid and ambulance cover atevents and incidents throughout the country – including mountain & lake rescue.
- Supporting older people and remote members of our community – assisting with the delivery of foodand medicine and transport for hospital appointments.
- Providing interactive and educational opportunities for our youth members.
- Delivering local and national support for refugees in need of food, water, shelter, and medicalassistance.
- Delivering a targeted international programme focusing on livelihoods, medical assistance andprevention of gender based violence
- Promoting the seven fundamental principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement to inspirepolicy and attitudinal change.
The Assignment
The IRC are looking to engage a highly experienced Face-to-Face fundraising consultant to help us set up and launch a Face-to-Face pilot. This is a critical initiative as we aim to significantly expand our regular giving donor base to advance the work of the IRC at home and abroad.We are looking for a consultant with a proven track record in the establishment of Face-to-Face programmes, specifically with experience in leading in-house teams and third-party agencies for more than 10 years. This role presents and exciting opportunity to shape the success of acquisition at the IRCby helping setting up infrastructure and skills needed for long-term success.
The key objectives of the assignment:
1.Select and tender relevant suppliers in cooperation with the Individual Giving manager, preparetechnical inputs for RFP and communicate with winning agency to coordinate systems.2.Ensure performance management is prioritised after launch.3.Establish internal processes - including paperless Direct Debit setup for fundraisers and donor on-boarding - as well as best practices in collaboration with the Individual Giving manager to ensure thesuccess of the pilot.
Scope and Deliverables
The consultant will work directly with the Individual Giving Manager on the set up and launch of the IrishRed Cross Face-to-Face programme. The key objectives are those noted above.
Timeline
Six months engagement, starting April 14 (circa).
Cost
The tendered price should not exceed €25,000 including vat.
Application Process
To apply, please submit a PDF or MS Word Document with details under the following headings:
- Contact details of individual or organisation tendering
- Relevant experience, including CVs of people who will work on the project
- Your understanding of the work to be completed
- Proposed methodology and timeline
- Cost, including VAT
- Evidence of tax clearance
- Evidence of insurances
- One reference related to similar work undertaken
The work may be attractive to a firm that has the internal capacity to second someone from their team for the project duration, or to an independent consultant.
Tenders will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Understanding of the work to be completed 20 points
- Experience of tenderer 25 points
- Proposed methodology 25 points
- Cost 30 points