Vital Strategies strives to purchase high-quality goods and services at the best value in a timely and transparent manner, which includes the publication of all solicitations. All of our open solicitations for business and consulting opportunities are listed in this section for any prospective supplier to see and consider. Instructions on how to respond are included within each solicitation.
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Current Opportunities
These solicitations are for goods and services to be provided to Vital Strategies in any countries it works in.
Consultant opportunity: Regional Communication Manager, Latin America region
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants
Due Date: January 20, 2025
Site of Work: Remote
Description: The Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative is expanding, and the Regional Communication Manager, Latin America Region, is a new consultant role. This position will work closely with city communication officers and the global and regional Partnership for Healthy Cities teams to identify and deliver opportunities to strengthen internal and external communication efforts that promote healthier, safer cities and amplify the initiative’s impact on NCD and injury prevention at the city-level. The consultant should be fluent in Spanish and English.
Consultant opportunity: Senior Manager, Africa Region, Partnership for Healthy Cities
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal
Due Date: December 31, 2024
Site of Work: Remote
Description: The Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative is expanding and the Senior Manager for the Africa region is a new consultant role. This role will be responsible for project managing select cities in the Africa region, including managing key stakeholder relationships, facilitating and coordinating technical assistance, providing project management direction, maintaining regular communications, monitoring, and reporting on progress. The consultant should be fluent in English and French.
North Carolina Community-Powered Overdose Prevention RFP
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal
Due Date: January 31, 2025
Site of Work: United States
Description:
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Vital Strategies is partnering with Frontline Solutions to request proposals from organizations led and powered by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities in North Carolina that are seeking to adopt or deepen the use of harm reduction principles to reduce the incidence of negative health effects and the number of fatal overdoses among Black, Indigenous, and Latine people who use drugs (PWUD).
This funding initiative will award grants of $25,000 and $50,000, with total funding available set at $1,000,000. Funding will be for one year, with projects starting in April 2025. Organizations can only apply for one grant funding amount.
FUNDING ELIGIBILITY
Organizations applying for this grant opportunity must be:
–A 501(c)(3), a business, a Tribal government, or a fiscally-sponsored organization. If your organization neither holds a 501(c)(3), business, or Tribal government status nor is fiscally sponsored, yet maintains sound fiscal recordkeeping practices, we invite you to contact us. We are open to considering alternative demonstrations of fiscal responsibility on a case-by-case basis.
–Engaged with under-resourced communities in North Carolina, prioritizing predominantly Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities, rural areas, and/or communities struggling to access opioid settlement funds.
Learn more via the PDF linked below.
Road Injury Surveillance Consultant
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants
Due Date: January 13, 2025
Site of Work: Kenya
Description: Vital Strategies seeks an experienced consultant who will engage closely with our road injury surveillance team and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), Kenya, to produce a comprehensive national road safety report, and support our road injury surveillance systems strengthening work in Mombasa County.
Consultant opportunity: Program Officer, Africa Region, Partnership for Healthy Cities
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal
Due Date: December 31, 2024
Site of Work: Rwanda
Description: The Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative is expanding and the Program Officer for the Africa region is a new consultant role. This role will be responsible for providing administrative and operational support that will contribute to the efficient running of initiatives that advance healthier and safer cities in the Africa region. The consultant should be fluent in English, and French is preferred.
Consultant opportunity: Program Officer, Latin America Region, Partnership for Healthy Cities
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants
Due Date: January 20, 2025
Site of Work: Mexico
Description: The Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative is expanding and the Program Officer for the Latin America region is a new consultant role. This role will be responsible for providing administrative and operational support to the Deputy Directors of the Latin America region. This position is ideal for candidates with 4-5 years of administrative experience. The Program Officer’s administrative support will contribute to the efficient running of initiatives that advance healthier and safer cities in the Latin America region. The consultant should be fluent in English and Spanish.
Consultant opportunity: Regional Communication Manager, Africa region, Partnership for Healthy Cities
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants
Due Date: December 31, 2024
Site of Work: Remote
Description: The Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative is expanding and the Regional Communication Manager, Africa Region, is a new consultant role. This position will work closely with city communication officers and the global and regional Partnership for Healthy Cities team to identify and deliver opportunities to strengthen internal and external communication efforts that promote healthier, safer cities and amplify the initiative’s impact on NCD and injury prevention at the city-level. Fluency in English and French is strongly preferred.
Community Engagement Consultant to support “Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque” community-led overdose prevention policy agenda
Type of Solicitation: Request for proposal from independent consultants
Due Date: January 31, 2025
Site of Work: United States
Description: Vital Strategies is seeking to hire a Community Engagement Consultant to work with the Coalition for a Safer Albuquerque, aiming to develop and implement a local behavioral health strategy in response to the overdose crisis. This full-time, 18-month position involves equity-centered community engagement, public meeting facilitation, and intensive outreach to expand behavioral health and substance use services in the Greater Albuquerque area.