Learning Development Coordinator

CALP Learning and Development Coordinator

We are looking for someone to work with an experienced team to take forward CALP’s learning agenda. This is a multi-faceted role that requires strategic thinking, ability to foster new partnerships, great understanding of adult learning, hands on ability to develop quality learning and training materials and more. The Coordinator leads the strategic development of CALP’s training agenda, ensuring reach and maximising impact, promoting integration of CALP materials and other CVA resources into humanitarian courses and standards. You will need great people skills, you’ll need to be innovative, creative and, at the same time, systematic and pragmatic. It’s an exciting role with lots of possibilities for development. Interested? Read on.

This position is open to applicants with existing right to work in one of the following locations: Jordan, Kenya, Senegal or the UK. Other locations may be considered, depending on whether CALP can arrange a compliant employment mechanism with one of its hosts (Oxfam, ACF, NRC) in the country of the applicant’s residency.

Note: CALP contracts team members through its host agencies. The location of the applicant will determine the host (contract) agency.

In case of any queries about the position, please contact Kate.hart@calpnetwork.org.

About CALP

Role Purpose

The Learning Development Coordinator leads the strategic development of CALP’s training agenda, ensuring reach and maximising impact, promoting integration of CALP materials and other CVA resources into humanitarian courses and standards. The post holder, sitting within the Policy, Evidence and Learning team, works collaboratively across CALP, with member organisations and external institutions, to ensure CALP-branded learning content sets the quality standard for CVA.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the strategic development of CALP’s approach to learning and training, maintaining CALP’s core courses as the ‘gold standard’ whilst further increasing accessibility and use.
• Oversee the development of CALP learning and training resources, ensuring they are regularly updated, based on the latest evidence.
• Build partnerships and develop approaches that substantially increase the number of people who access and complete CVA courses, thus maximise reach and impact.
• Work with Regional teams to establish partnerships with academic and training institutions to facilitate and promote the integration of CVA learning and training resources into relevant courses.
• Develop strategies to increase the reach of CALP’s e-learning courses and resources, working in collaboration with the communications and regional teams.
• Engage with the learning and development teams of member organisations to promote the use of CALP training resources, providing briefings and explore opportunities for collective action.
• Lead the development of CALP’s approach to course certification and the accreditation of trainers.

Essential Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge

• Qualified learning and people development professional
• Experienced practitioner, skilled at developing innovative approaches to enhance learning.
• Qualification in an appropriate technical field (Masters or equivalent) or equivalent level of professional experience.
• Ability to develop quality learning and training materials and methods.
• Ability to forge strong partnerships and be influential across a breadth of stakeholders
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
• Proven strategic thinker.
• Cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a multi-cultural and multi-sectoral team.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English, with the ability to write clearly and succinctly for a wide audience.
• Strong project management and monitoring skills.
• Good understanding of humanitarian assistance

Desirable attributes

• Experience of working in a virtual network or remote team
• Well-developed understanding of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in a humanitarian settingWritten and verbal communication skills in Arabic, French or Spanish

We offer:

The details of the contractual package will depend on the CALP host organisation which would be determent by the location of the successful candidate. The position is a Grade C role (if Oxfam GB or affiliate contracted, or equivalent if contracted by another CALP host agency i.e. NRC or ACF).

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

We are committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom CALP and Oxfam GB engages. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate ourvaluesare recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitabilityagainst the job profile

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.

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