Overview
The role focuses on strengthening knowledge management, learning, and systemic capacity development within the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) to enhance replicability, institutional effectiveness, and large-scale impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop an OCB-customized experience capitalization methodology.
- Conduct knowledge management and learning audits, needs assessments, and stakeholder consultations.
- Assess and support the establishment or strengthening of knowledge-sharing platforms and Communities of Practice.
- Support the establishment and operationalization of KML working groups.
- Develop project and programme-level KML strategies.
- Develop monitoring frameworks for learning, knowledge-sharing, and capacity development activities.
- Provide methodological quality assurance for training materials and capacity development products.
- Support the integration of systemic capacity development approaches.
- Conduct systemic capacity needs assessments and design capacity development interventions.
- Review project-level KML and capacity development approaches.
- Design methodological frameworks for identifying, validating, and disseminating good practices.
- Develop and support plans for twinning, learning exchanges, and peer-to-peer support.
- Support the development, deployment, testing, and improvement of knowledge portals and digital platforms.
- Work with communications specialists to ensure KML products are accessible and aligned with standards.
- Support the design, production, and dissemination of knowledge and communication products.
- Ensure alignment with relevant FAO and OCB programmes and contribute to coordination mechanisms and events.
- Contribute to OCB-wide KML initiatives and institutional learning processes.
Required Experience
- For Consultants/PSA Cat C, a minimum of one year; for Consultant/PSA Cat B, a minimum of five years of relevant experience progressively responsible professional experience in knowledge management, learning, systemic capacity development, and/or organizational or institutional development, preferably in the context of environment, climate change, biodiversity, natural resources management, agrifood systems or sustainable development programmes.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work.
- Proven experience in designing or quality-assuring practitioner manuals, training materials, learning packages, facilitation tools, guidance documents and/or other knowledge management and capacity development products for diverse audiences.
- Ability to conduct field work and work effectively in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, establishing constructive working relationships with national and local stakeholders, technical experts and institutional partners.
- Proven experience in facilitating inclusive stakeholder analysis, consultations and engagement processes and familiarity with participatory approaches, including rural participatory appraisal, community-based learning, co-creation processes or similar methodologies, would be considered an asset.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in social sciences, knowledge management, communication, adult learning, rural development, organizational development, institutional development, environmental governance, natural resources management, public policy, or another relevant field. Consultants with a bachelor's degree need two additional years of relevant professional experience.
- For PSAs: University degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in social sciences, knowledge management, communication, adult learning, rural development, organizational development, institutional development, environmental governance, natural resources management, public policy, or another relevant field.
