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Attachment A Diversity & Inclusion Consultant RFP appropriate strategies to reach targeted audiences. This Best Practices guide, along with recommendations from the consultant will be used to develop an Engagement Plan which the city can implement to ensure key stakeholders have an opportunity to inform implementation of the external strategies as well as build awareness of the plan. 3.CAPACITY BUILDING: Provide expertise to build staff capacity and support the city’s efforts to embed a racial equity lens within day-to-day work. The selected consultant will work closely with the GARE team and other key staff including Department Heads and the City Manager. The consultant is expected to build staff capacity, and empower staff to apply a racial equity lens specifically in two areas: policy review and engagement strategies. The city is seeking advice and recommendations from the consultant on the following items: a.Provide advice and recommendations on building an internal structure for the on-going work of the GARE team(s). b.Recommend a systematic approach to review policies to ensure that they do not have disparate impact on residents, businesses, and other stakeholders. This approach should include identifying staff positions and an organizational structure. VI.Services and Tangible Work Deliverables 1.Action Plan: The city’s Racial Equity Action Plan sets forth a vision for how the City of Roseville can ensure a welcoming community for all. The plan makes an intentional effort to address historical and systemic racism in government processes, policies and programs. The consultant will be responsible for providing a final version of the city’s Racial Equity Action Plan which will include implementation strategies, timelines, performance measures and intended outcomes. 2.Engagement: The consultant will review and recommend improvements to the Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Best Practices Guide, and help develop and prepare an Engagement Plan to engage key community stakeholders as outlined in Section IV (3). 3.Capacity Building: The consultant will provide a minimum of one training/workshop for key staff members (including the GARE Team, Department Heads and City Manager) on the following topic: How to integrate a racial equity lens into your team’s daily workflow. In addition, the consultant will provide coaching techniques, tips, and/or resources for supervisors to embed a racial equity lens in day-to-day work for their teams. These resources shall include racial equity analysis tools that can be used to assist in integrating racial equity into routine decision making, and which can subsequently be applied to programs, policies and initiatives. 4.Written documents and training materials: The consultant will have the ability and latitude to produce written documents in the form of PowerPoint presentations; training materials; summarizing documents that articulate key take-aways from meetings; recommendations to inform future strategic decision making; among other materials which are high-quality, easy to understand and professionally presented. Page | 6