Learning Specialist
Job Description
About Us
International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S.-based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and implemented over three hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.
Overview: IBTCI is preparing to submit a proposal for the upcoming Yemen Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Project II (YMELP II) solicitation. We are seeking a Learning Specialist for this project in Yemen that includes third-party monitoring (TPM), learning, evaluations, assessments, and quantitative and qualitative research of the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance’s portfolio in Yemen.
Responsibilities
Essential Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Provide overarching technical assistance on all aspects related to learning across various humanitarian sectors
- Develop learning plans to summarize approaches to be combined to meet various objectives related to tasks, schedule, assumptions, and assignments;
- Design, create, and implement learning tools and other technical resources related to learning;
- Create and facilitate the sharing of resources related to learning using existing tools and websites, if applicable;
- Develop a set of learning questions to guide different learning environments;
- Define and implement processes to collect short stories/vignettes of how the services are being used. Videos, audio files, photographs, blog posts, and/or short stories are all viable formats. Stories/vignettes are to emphasize process, lessons learned, and real-life examples.
- Build capacity for adapting to new learning and changes in context through effective approaches.
- Facilitate collaborative planning sessions to finalize learning activities that address learning questions at the Mission
- Coordinate knowledge capturing, sharing and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring new innovations to the program.
- Expanding the network of professionals and institutions that collaborate on performance management and evaluation tasks for the contract.
- Lead training tasks, and efforts to ensure evaluation findings and recommendations are transparent and distributed to relevant stakeholders.
