UNDP Crisis Academy Outreach Specialist (Office-Based) || Apply Now |
The Crisis Academy ensures that each participant’s unique background is acknowledged and respected, creating a collaborative and supportive atmosphere that enhances learning outcomes. The Outreach Specialist will report directly to the Crisis Academy Manager, ensuring that outreach efforts align with the Academy’s strategic goals.
Duties and Responsibilities of Crisis Academy
1) Ensure Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Management:
- Curate engagement with Steering Committees and Technical Working Groups: Coordinate and prepare for regular meetings of Steering Committees and Technical Working Groups pertaining to the various governance bodies under each Campus. This includes drafting agendas, coordinating logistics, preparing presentation materials, consolidating minutes and ensuring effective follow-up on decisions.
- Stakeholder feedback mechanisms: Design and implement formal mechanisms (e.g., surveys, interviews, feedback sessions) to gather input from key stakeholders on the effectiveness of Academy programs, and report insights to leadership for continuous improvement.
- Partners engagement and reporting: Advise and support the Academy Manager and the Campus coordinators with the drafting of activity and annual reports summarizing accomplishments and challenges across the learning offer under each Campus.
2) Facilitate Community and Knowledge Sharing:
- Knowledge Base Development: Contribute to the development and maintenance of a centralized knowledge base that captures the insights and lessons learned from Academy engagements.
- Content Creation: Develop and curate high-quality content for the Academy’s online platforms, including articles, blogs, and webinars, in coordination with Comms colleagues.
- Community Building: Foster a vibrant online community of the Academy’s alumni and related practitioners and experts through social media engagement and virtual events.
- Platform Management: Overseeing the technical aspects of the community platform, including updates and maintenance.
- Capacity Building: Supporting capacity building initiatives for humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding actors.
3) Lead Advocacy and Outreach
- Planning and Design: Contribute to the planning and design of internal and external strategies for communications and outreach.
- Capacity Development Outreach: Lead Crisis Academy outreach efforts to stakeholders for activities related to capacity development.
- Advocacy and Promotion: Facilitate advocacy and promotion of Crisis Academy through the development of an annual course catalogue.
4) Promote Learning Innovation:
- Technology Selection: Advise the Crisis Academy Learning Manager in Identifying and selecting appropriate educational technologies to enhance learning experiences.
- Training Support: Providing training and support to learners and educators on the use of educational technologies.
- Integration: Integrating technology into the learning environment to support effective instruction and assessment.
- Evaluating Programs: Advise and support the Crisis Academy Learning Manager in evaluating the effectiveness of learning programs and initiatives to ensure they meet their goals.
Check : Adobe Design UX Quantitative Research Internship 2025
Required skills
- Proven experience in designing and delivering adult learning programs.
- Proven track record of strong understanding of humanitarian, development, peace nexus.
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section
- Experience and familiarity with UNDP Crisis Academy is an asset.
- Experience working in different capacities across UNDP (i.e. Country Office, SURGE mission, etc.) is an asset
- Experience designing and delivering learning programmes in crisis contexts is an advantage.
- Proven experience working in different geographical areas, and development settings, including crisis and fragile environments is highly desirable.
Required Language(s)
- Fluency in English is required.
- Working knowledge of another UN language is desired.
Join us on Telegram for more opportunities !