Learning Designer and Facilitator

Job Title: Learning Designer and Facilitator
Team: Learning Services

Contract: Fixed-term contract

Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Please refer to our Capability Framework
Location: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, UK

Apply by: We're interviewing on a rolling basis until we close the role. We advise you to apply early as we may close the role early if we have a sufficient pool of candidates. 

ABOUT US

At Climate-KIC, we are wholeheartedly committed to building a diverse and representative team and an inclusive workplace that values different life experiences and perspectives, and we encourage personal development, learning and growth.

When recruiting, we look to achieve diversity in the candidate pool. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments that will foster success in potential employees from diverse backgrounds and life situations. And because our team has differing needs and personal circumstances, we offer a high degree of flexibility to accommodate all working patterns. We’re happy to discuss your situation during the interview and see how best we can support you.

Don’t let Imposter Syndrome stop you from applying!

Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative, entrusted by the European Commission to catalyse transformation through innovation. Headquartered in Amsterdam, with circa 160 people distributed all over the EU, Climate-KIC leads and orchestrates innovation with a community of more than 400. Together we conduct activities in 39 countries. We partner with cities, regions, governments and communities with the highest climate action ambition; providing the framework and expert support to holistically manage the complexity of climate change and deliver accelerated climate action.

Climate-KIC operates as a not-for-profit platform working through public-private partnership, wielding both public and private funding. We consist of 3 Legal entities: a Dutch BV Holding company (for profit) with 14 branches in European jurisdictions, providing grant management, innovation orchestration services, and impact investment advisory owned by a Dutch-based foundation with charity status – Climate-KIC International Foundation. Historically, we have been funded by our founder and core funder, the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), but we are currently transitioning to a multi-funder model.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Learning Designer and Facilitator whose primary role is to design and develop capacity building activities and learning modules in a series of cross-cutting projects following Climate-KIC Innovation approach & methodology. The successful candidate will work alongside ongoing and upcoming projects where we will need to design and facilitate learning experiences (like workshops, communities of practice, peer-to-peer learning) from a systems innovation approach. The candidate will dedicate most of its time to projects related to Climate-KICs Climate Leadership Academy and its customisable modules.  

The newly launched Climate Leadership Academy is drawing on Climate-KICs 12 years’ experience in delivering over 100 green transition programmes in Europe and beyond. The modular approach of the academy is aimed at addressing the gaps in leadership skills needed for the transition to the green economy supporting its participants to emerge as climate leaders be capable of creating collaborations, implementing scalable solutions and leading systemic transformation. The successful candidate will through their skills and expertise bring in the complementary capabilities that are needed to accelerate the growth and success of the academy. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead the development of learning materials and modules that meet both the educational and commercial objectives of the Climate Leadership Academy  

• Conduct learners needs analysis and establish high-level learning objectives  

• Collaborate and engage with subject matter experts to identify target audiences and training needs, ensuring alignment with the objective of the Climate Leadership Academy  

• Align learning content with Climate-KICs learning environment and platforms and leveraging innovative approaches to enhance the Climate Leadership Academy learning experience  

• Design and oversee the design of assessment tools for evaluating learner progress and understanding  

• Design learning content in series of cross-cutting projects in alignment with Climate-KIC Systems Innovation approach, contributing to transformational educational approach 

• Facilitate and drive learning sessions with community members, within and across Climate-KICs ecosystem. 

• Make sense of complex ideas and apply design methodologies to turn these into educational assets that can contribute to projects, initiatives, or experiments.  

Key Working Relationships 

• Climate-KlC Teams, in particular: The Hub including the Learning, Strategic Partnerships, Communicatons, Community and Policy & EU Affairs teams, Cities and Regions, Industry Value Chains, Finance, Operations, Legal, Climate-KlC Challenge Owners, Partners  

• European Commission stakeholders, EIT and other funders  

• International funders like philanthropies, public and private institutions.   

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role you will be passionate about making a critical contribution with your skills to Climate-KlC’s mission of making a positive impact on climate change through systemic innovation. You are deeply curious, perceptive, respectful and resilient; oriented toward networking with people and teams and facilitating conversations.  

Education/Qualifications 

• Relevant academic degree or qualification such as Social Sciences Fields (Education, Sociologist, Anthropologist, Political Science), Environmental Sciences or Design fields (Service Design). 

Experience 

• +3 years working experience in facilitating large scale multistakeholder workshops and designing learning contents (online and in-person).  

• Proven experience, expertise and track record as a practitioner in systems transformation applications and development.  

• Proven experience in designing, developing and implementing engaging and effective learning experiences  

• Knowledge of adult learning theories, education design and innovative technologies and ability to use this knowledge towards designing courses, curriculums and learning materials   

• Experience and expertise in building coalitions of organisations and individuals, working to expand the space of engagement, and to stretch learning.  

• Knowledge and experience of supporting senior decision-making, facilitating and enabling change, nurturing and shaping dialogue in uncharted waters and stimulating thinking about new possibilities.  

• Strategic thinking with an ability to influence and support self and group-reflection.  

• Active participation and engagement with internal and external stakeholders.   

Skills 

• Fluent in English with additonal language knowledge being favored 

• Systems thinking: especially as applied to and derived from experience with real world change.  

• Accountability: good at taking decisions with a consideration of risk and following through on commitments to completion.  

• Highly developed adaptive leadership / leadership in complexity skills, emphasizing listening to learn, empathy, human-centred design, agility, empowerment, and collaboration.  

• Familiarity and proficiency in coaching others; able to build capacity by investing in the development of others and in the development of self. 

• Experience or willingness to work with collaborative IT applications (we use Office365 and Microsoft Teams, as well as Miro, Zoom, Mentimeter etc.) 

Qualities, Personal Style, and Approach 

• Articulate and dynamic, with highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, inspire and motivate people.  

• Growth mindset; highly adaptable, flexible and resilient.  

• Solutions focused, with a “can do” attitude; willing to undertake a range of tasks to meet needs.  

• Structured and organised  

• Curious with a learning mindset  

Location

Candidates must have the right to work in the location they’re applying for (I.e. not require visa sponsorship) prior to applying for the position. Ideally, the successful candidate will be based close to one of the EIT Climate KIC offices, but we support fully remote or hybrid forms of working and offer a high degree of flexibility.

To ensure that we can respond to every single applicant, we will close the role once we receive a reasonable pool of candidates to assess.