CRISIS FINANCING TRAINING AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential individual with experience of developing training and learning packages on technical subjects ideally within the humanitarian/international development sector to join us as our Crisis Financing Training & Capacity Development Advisor where you will develop and expand an innovative package of trainings and learning around Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing for the Start Network.

 About the role

The Crisis Financing Training & Capacity Development Advisor will be responsible for developing and expanding an innovative package of trainings and learning for the Start Network. The role will play a crucial role in the ongoing capacity development of Start Network organisation, by disseminating and institutionalising new developments in learning, knowledge and terminology throughout the staff team.

You will expand Start Network's training and capacity development offer, building on the existing Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing strategy.

You will continue to develop new and strengthen existing training packages that are of high quality and will ensure that Start Network's New Financing programming is mainstreamed throughout the sector in a sustainable manner. 

You will be responsible for assisting in delivering trainings to member agency colleagues, Start Network Hubs as well as training the Start Network team. You will coordinate a group of ‘trainers' who can offer high quality capacity development opportunities. You will also ensure that monitoring, evaluation and accountability is built into capacity development to measure outputs and outcomes more systematically.

 

In this role, you will: 

  • Leverage technical expertise from Start team members, technical partners and the anticipation and risk financing building blocks framework to design modularised training and learning materials to meet the capacity development needs of the Start Network, including e-learning.
  • Identify and develop a training of trainers (TOT) programme and build up a group of trainers within the Start team and across the Start Network membership.
  • Strengthen the training and facilitation skills of Start Network team
  • Develop a learning pathway with the technical leads to ensure different stakeholders can access the training necessary for their role
  • Investigate and utilise cutting edge and interactive learning and training approaches, building partnerships and relationships with providers of such services.
  • Review and develop adaptable learning materials with multi language application requirements and cultural contexts as needed.
  • Work with academic partners to see how higher levels of training and learning could achieve levels of accreditation for member participants.
  • Lead on coordinating and monitoring capacity development with the above-mentioned cadre of trainers from the Start team and across the Start Network membership, supporting the cadre to deliver high quality trainings as well as delivering in-person trainings directly and ensuring that materials and approaches are adapted to context.
  • Build in monitoring, evaluation and accountability systems. Feed learning back into the development of training, and into the wider Start Financing programme delivery.
  • Work with Start Programmes team (i.e. CARF and Start Funds) to understand their work and the subject areas to develop the training package.

 

Full / Part Time: Full time (flexible working options available)

Contract Duration: 12 months

Closing Date: 31 March 2023

Salary Range: £36,575 - 40,424

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