Call for proposals: Strategic advisor to FOUND on impact and partnerships
Deadline for applications: Monday 12th January 2026
Link to full tender doc here.
Background
Disappearances remain one of the most critical human rights and justice challenges in Mexico. More than 130,000 people are officially reported as missing, with thousands of clandestine graves identified across the country. While formal search commissions operate at both state and national levels, gaps persist in resourcing and access to appropriate tools. As a result, families, particularly groups of mothers searching for their missing children, continue to play a central role in locating clandestine graves.
The Frontier Tech Hub’s FOUND pilot explores how emerging and repurposed technologies could support safer, more effective, and more systematic searches for clandestine graves, while respecting and valuing the lived experience and knowledge of searching families. The pilot was recently reported on in The Guardian.
We are now looking to consolidate learning from the pilot, strengthen how impact is understood and evidenced, and position FOUND to attract partners, adopters, and future funding beyond short-term grant support.
We are seeking a Strategic Advisor to support this.
Mothers and sisters search for evidence. Image credit: Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco
The opportunity
The Frontier Tech Hub is seeking strategic advisory support to help FOUND transition from a successful pilot into a more sustainable and clearly positioned initiative.
This consultancy will focus on two interrelated areas of work:
Focus Area 1: Impact Framing and Evidence Use
This focus area concerns how FOUND defines, evidences, and communicates impact. Impact in this context extends beyond the number of discoveries made, and includes changes in practice, confidence in methods, adoption of technology into protocols, knowledge transfer, and shifts in how searches are undertaken. The work will explore which impact stories and data are most meaningful to adopters, funders, and strategic partners, and how evidence can be framed to support responsible scaling of the project.
Focus Area 2: Market Positioning, Partnerships, and Sustainability
This focus area concerns where and how FOUND should be positioned to enable longer-term sustainability. This includes understanding who the most promising adopters, funders, and champions are; how different stakeholder groups perceive FOUND’s value; and which partnership or programme pathways are realistic. The aim is to inform strategic decisions about engagement, positioning, and future funding models beyond reliance on short-term grant funding.
The work is intended to be fast, iterative, and decision-oriented, supporting the Frontier Tech Hub and its partners to make informed choices about FOUND’s future direction.
For the full scope of work, evaluation criteria and application instructions - please access the full call for proposals document here
Date published: 18th December 2025