Learning and Development Consultant for Young Innovator Fellowship Programme

This consultancy will customize and deliver a cutting-edge capacity development programme for fostering leadership, innovation and creativity, specially customized for young people working on issues of human rights, gender equality and social justice. It will develop a learning plan to provide Innovation Fellows with the skills they need to transform organizations, governments and businesses for the new and complex challenges of a rapidly changing world. The programme should provide them with the frameworks and tools to be able to consolidate knowledge across disciplines, to design effective strategies and implement innovative initiatives that achieve measurable results.

A training curriculum to build the following skills:

• Self-awareness: including emotional, social, cultural and ecological intelligence, identity and profiles, biopsychosocial and integral models.
• Analytical skills: including systems thinking, strategy and tactics, immediate, intermediate and underlying causes, designing policies and programmes, making budgets, decision-making processes, handling complexity, stakeholder analysis and network building
• Communication skills: Listening, speaking, lobbying, advocating, enrolling, compassionate communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, making committed requests, social media and ICT
• Innovation and Creativity: divergent and convergent thinking, effective brainstorming, everyday creativity, designing innovation engines, incremental and disruptive innovation, big data
• Policy and programme design: including results-based management, coordinated management of meaning, fundraising, building networks, teams and partnerships.
• Customise the learning plan for fourteen fellows over a period of six weeks in person and six months remotely (that includes in-person workshop, coaching and final evaluation and feedback) in consultation with UNFPA staff and innovation fellows
• Facilitation of in-person workshop at UNFPA Headquarters in New York during April-May 2019
• Providing preparation and post-workshop coaching to innovation fellows between April 2019 – December 2019 (via phone/ internet) to design and implement innovation initiatives, and provide psycho-social support throughout the fellowship (involving at least 1 hour of coaching every two weeks)
• Final feedback and evaluation by end of December 2019.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• The consultant must offer the following demonstrated experience, knowledge and skills:
• Postgraduate qualifications in leadership, conflict resolution, negotiation, or relevant field, as well as psychology or a related field
• Minimum of seven years’ experience demonstrating significant knowledge of and experience in leadership programmes for young people and coaching, counselling and psycho-social support, including in conflict/ post-conflict settings
• Facilitation skills and skills for involving diverse and inter-disciplinary stakeholders
• Good knowledge and understanding of the UN system, UNFPA’s mandate, and the role of UN civil society partners
• Language skills: Fluency in English required. Knowledge of other UN languages is an asset
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Computer literacy in MS Word and PowerPoint and familiarity with the Google suite is an asset

Location:  Home based.  UNFPA will provide facilitation space for face-to-face workshops.  

How to apply:

Candidates should submit cover letter and CV by e-mail to  Michael Dahl, Mdahl@unfpa.org, by 1 April 2019  with subject title:  "Learning and Development Consultant for Young Innovator Fellowship Programme"