Key Lime International, Inc is a US woman owned small business founded in 2018. Our senior leadership team brings nearly 70 years of experience leading business development, project management, and direct implementation for a dozen of USAID’s implementing partners. We recognize the market need for streamlining the process of identifying and mobilizing short-, medium-, and long-term consultants. We and our colleagues were spending far too much time scouring LinkedIn and reaching out to colleagues and friends with consulting opportunities, only to find out that many/most were not available when we needed them. Not to mention the paperwork! From Contracts to Finance, every department had an urgent form that needed completion. And then, a whole new round of forms started rolling in when it came time to close the assignment out. Oftentimes, multiple consultants were required at the same time, which meant additional forms, timesheets, invoices, and payment processing hoops to jump through. And thus, Keylime was born.
OUR VALUES
At our core, we are here to enable our clients’ workforces to increase focus on the life-changing international development work, and reduce the time spent on recruiting consultants and moving paperwork around today’s remote offices. Our values continue to drive our work:
- Time is the ultimate commodity—use carefully, use wisely, reward directly
- Technologically leading the way for the industry
- We favor innovation and risk
- Anything is possible with a thoughtful strategy
- Things will go wrong. We will still be good partners. Together we will solve it.
OUR SERVICES
Keylime offers three distinct services, primarily to USAID implementing partners and USAID directly:
- Keylime Marketplace – Fielding Consultants More Efficiently and Effectively. Our original service offering continues to grow year-on-year. Since launching in 2018, the Keylime Marketplace has been used to deliver approximately 300 days of short-, medium-, and long-term consultants to 53 unique clients with a 81% repeat client rate.
- Keylime Academy – Training for USAID and Implementing Partners. Through Keylime Academy, we deliver courses on USAID proposal writing, cost and pricing, recruitment, and compliance. Our courses are available to the public or as custom in-house offerings. Beginning in 2022, we have begun offerning one-on-one mentorship for international development professionals, which they can access using their professional development funds beneft.
- Marketplace as a Service (MaaS) – Bespoke Online Platforms for STTA, Vendor, and Grants Pools. Keylime’s MaaS solution enables companies and non-profits to build a custom marketplace for their IDIQ, HQ, or project that can be launched in hours. Tailor designed for USAID programming, our marketplaces integrate into existing organizational systems, and include marketplace launch and management toolkits.
MARKETPLACE MANAGER POSITION
In anticipation of multiple contract awards leveraging Keylime’s MaaS service (detailed above), Keylime is recruiting for Marketplace Managers to be named in proposals to USAID and other USG agencies, and join project teams upon subcontract and prime contract awards. These positions are contingent to contract award and location of work will be based on the specific contract. Therefore, some will be remote positions, others will be based in Washington DC, and others will be international positions with expatriate benefits provided.
Position Responsibilities:
- Manages both the front-end and back-end of the Marketplace platform to meet long-term and short-term program needs.
- Conducts on-boarding session with all new Marketplace applicants/consultants to provide an overview of the system.
- Conducts orientation for all actual and potential project staff who will use the Marketplace to fill long-term and short-term needs.
- Follows up with both project staff and applicants/consultants to ensure timely two-way reviews are conducted after assignments.
- Conducts quarterly feedback sessions with project staff to receive input into Marketplace adaptation needs, and works to incorporate feedback into platform adjustments
- Markets the project Marketplace to continuously on-board new applicants/consultants and expand the network of qualified candidates for long- and short-term assignments
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 3 years (with a Master’s degree) or 5 years (with a Bachelor’s degree) in the field of international development.
- Experience with USAID-funded programming required.
- Strong network providing relevant expertise to quickly populate project Marketplace based on the unique requirements of the project.
- Professional-level bilingual candidates will have an advantage.
- Familiarity with ICT4D platforms.
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