Learning Designer and Facilitator

Job Titles: Learning Designer and Facilitator
Team: Learning, Insights and MEL

Contract: Indefinite

Level: Foundation/Intermediate
Please refer to our Capability Framework
Location: Spain
Start Date: January 2025

Apply by: We're interviewing on a rolling basis until we close the role. We advise you to apply early as we may close the role early if we have a sufficient pool of candidates. 

ABOUT US

At EIT Climate-KIC, we are wholeheartedly committed to building a diverse and representative team and an inclusive workplace that values different life experiences and perspectives, and we encourage personal development, learning and growth.

When recruiting, we look to achieve diversity in the candidate pool. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments that will foster success in potential employees from diverse backgrounds and life situations. And because our team has differing needs and personal circumstances, we offer a high degree of flexibility to accommodate all working patterns. We’re happy to discuss your situation during the interview and see how best we can support you.

Don’t let Imposter Syndrome stop you from applying!

EIT Climate-KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative, entrusted by the European Commission to catalyse transformation through innovation. Headquartered in Amsterdam, with circa 160 people distributed all over the EU, EIT Climate-KIC leads and orchestrates innovation with a community of more than 400. Together we conduct activities in 39 countries. We partner with cities, regions, governments and communities with the highest climate action ambition; providing the framework and expert support to holistically manage the complexity of climate change and deliver accelerated climate action.

EIT Climate-KIC operates as a not-for-profit platform working through public-private partnership, wielding both public and private funding. We consist of 3 Legal entities: a Dutch BV Holding company (for profit) with 14 branches in European jurisdictions, providing grant management, innovation orchestration services, and impact investment advisory owned by a Dutch-based foundation with charity status – Climate-KIC International Foundation. Historically, we have been funded by our founder and core funder, the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT), but we are currently transitioning to a multi-funder model.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Learning Designer and Facilitator whose primary role is to design and develop capacity building activities in a series of cross-cutting projects from the LIME team following Climate-KIC Sensemaking methodology. The successful candidate will work alongside ongoing and upcoming projects where we will need to design and facilitate learning experiences (like workshops, communities of practice, peer-to-peer learning) from a systems innovation approach. The candidate will dedicate most of its time to a project based in Gipuzkoa (Basque Country) for a series of years where we are working with the local government and local citizens in a community engagement initiative around climate action. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design learning content in alignment with Climate-KIC Systems Innovation approach and Sensemaking methodology for a series of cross-cutting projects.  

• Deliver system innovation services and explore and build innovation portfolios of experiments in collaboration with partners and challenge owners.  

• Make sense of complex ideas and use design methodologies to turn these into projects, initiatives, or experiments.  

• Actively contribute to and lead sensemaking in the field to extract value from innovation and education initiatives in support of policymaking, decision-making, and capital allocation. 

• Facilitate and drive the relationship with local community of practices groups, with special focus in the Gipuzkoa ecosystem which will involve regular in-person meetings as well as online activities. 

Key Working Relationships 

• Climate-KlC Teams, in particular: Learning, Insights and MEL, Cities and Regions, Industry Value Chain, Future Funding, Finance, Operations, Legal, Communications, Policy and EU Affairs, and Community.  

• Climate-KlC Challenge Owners, Partners  

• European Commission stakeholders, EIT and other funders  

• International funders like philanthropies, public and private institutions.