Key Lime International (Keylime) is a woman-owned small business working with the USAID community to make international development more fruitful. With 495 consultants based in 75 countries, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Keylime Marketplace supports the full life cycle of USAID programming. Send your project management and implementation needs to [email protected] and we will be sure to get back to you quickly with some options.
Project associates, managers, directors | MEL | Parental Leave | Surge Support | Report writing | F&A | Grants
Many Keylime clients have found themselves in a position where they require surge support for home office project management functions. Whether to backfill during recruitment or parental leave, or you are simply in a position where a 50%-LOE project manager would relieve your overworked staff, Keylime has the resources to support you. Our project management professionals bring experience with both contracts and cooperative agreements and can seamlessly fit into your work environment, providing you with the skillsets you need to continue delivering for your clients and field offices.
Home office recruiter | Project recruiter | Surge recruiter
Whether it be for proposals, existing projects, or home office roles, recruitment fuels our clients’ engines. Retaining top recruiters is a big challenge for many organizations, which is why they turn to Keylime. Our clients also lean on us because they have uneven demand for recruiters and they want just-in-time resources. Whether you simply need a recruiter to come in at 25% LOE for one month, or 75% LOE for an entire year, Keylime can fill your needs in just slightly more time than it took for you to read this one-pager.
Start-up specialist | Project operations | Subcontract manager | Recruiter | Field operations | COP advisor
With USAID’s fiscal year coming to a close, many of our clients are about to receive new awards and the start-up needs are many. Did you know that most USAID awards allow you to sign firm-fixed-price (FFP) subcontracts valued at under $250,000 without procurement competition? Whether you simply need your grants and operations manuals tailored for a new country context, or you require a full start-up team to set your new award up for success, Keylime can typically fill your needs within a matter of days.
Project close out specialists | Grants and subcontracts | MEL | Report writing
Project close out can be a large administrative undertaking. Do you need a final, in-house DQA? Or, perhaps a final report writer, close-out specialist, or simply someone to make sure that all of your project deliverables have been uploaded to the DEC? Keylime has you covered to ensure a smooth close-out. Your client will remember the close-out process when it comes time to write your final CPAR or project evaluation, so make sure you are resourcing it properly and efficiently.
Localization | Capacity strengthening | MEL | Training | Partner Landscape Analysis
Organizations typically reach out to Keylime when they are looking for proven solutions in capacity strengthening or they have a project deliverable or consultant need that they simply are not able to complete in-house within the timeframe the client is asking for. Whether you are looking for a single expert or a team to complete a more complex deliverable, the same FFP subcontract option exists as highlighted under Project Start-Ups. Our team is ready to work with you to quickly develop a payment schedule and assemble the right mix of talent to deliver for your clients and beneficiaries. Our consultants include experts in every technical sector within which USAID operates, and our systems allow Keylime to hire both expatriate and host-country national consultants.
Project systems | Finance and Administration | Grants | Subcontracts | Compliance | MEL
As an organization grows, it typically requires more sophisticated systems to manage finances, procurement, travel, security, grants, and the myriad other tasks required in our industry. The catch-22 that many of our clients find themselves in is that they are so busy doing the work, they do not have the bandwidth to develop the systems to make that work more efficient and effective. Keylime has supported dozens of clients with systems development, including some of USAID’s largest implementing partners. Don’t let lack of bandwidth put your organization at risk for non-compliance or prevent you from modernizing your internal systems.