Facilitation and Learning Specialist (Home-based, SHORT-TERM)

This is a short-term IPSA assignment. The contractor will perform works upon request. 

Within short-term IPSA contract, a contractor can work no more than 130 working days per calendar period. To learn more about the contract modality visit: https://popp.undp.org/policy-page/international-personnel-services-agreement 

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and protect the planet. UNDP supports governments in strengthening policies, institutions, skills and partnerships to sustain progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) was established to aggregate UNDP’s work and expertise on SDG financing and to offer a comprehensive package of tools and support that enables governments, the private sector and international financial institutions to accelerate financing for the SDGs

UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility is charting new pathways to build resilience, incentivize growth and safeguard development. Housed within UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, the Facility is using insurance and risk transfer to increase the financial resilience of countries, communities, households, businesses, nature and food systems. Learn more at www.irff.undp.org

Facilitation and Learning Specialist

Under the IRFF, the UNDP’s Financial Resilience in Agriculture (FRA) initiative has developed and tested a facilitation methodology to support system-level change in agricultural insurance policymaking. This methodology aims to facilitate knowledge, empower stakeholders, build sustainable institutionalization pathways, and strengthen resource ecosystems across national and regional levels.

Following a successful pilot and extensive learning phase, FRA now seeks to refine, consolidate, and partially roll out its facilitation approach by operationalizing prioritized use cases of the framework and developing high-demand tools and coaching mechanisms. Therefore, a contractor is required to lead capacity building, resource development, documentation of learning, knowledge synthesis, and facilitate stakeholder engagement, ensuring its relevance, usability, and sustainability across diverse institutional contexts. This may include support for the IRFF central team in developing strategies to scale up the facilitation approach within the broader team. 

Duties and Responsibilities

The outputs for each specific assignment will depend on the scope of work engaged by the hiring unit. List of deliverables may include, but not limited to, the following:

Internal Capacity Building

• Conduct workshops on the resource-based facilitation framework, focusing on the most pressing or prioritized applications (including diagnosing capacity needs, motivating change, confronting resistance). 
• Design and deliver thematic clinics on strengthening specific resource buckets. Clinics are virtual sessions with UNDP or IRFF teams. 
• Provide one-on-one on-demand coaching to National Programme Officers (NPOs) to revise implementation pathways and strengthen facilitation capacity.
• Develop and test a diagnostic tool to assess individual/team capacity for facilitation.

Tool and Resource Development

Create or refine facilitation tools, which may include:

• Stakeholder mapping template (based on pilot testing)
• Guidance on using the resource-based facilitation framework in unstructured contexts
• Interactive resources to guide or support the facilitation process
• Generic and country-specific implementation pathway templates
• NPO problem-identification diagnostic tool to guide country-level strategy
• Simple aids to help NPOs translate their workplans into actionable stakeholder activities, resource strategies, and facilitation pathways that support institutionalization goals 

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Document and synthesize facilitation use cases and lessons from project countries.
• Facilitate the co-creation process with the FRA team and ensure NPO´s access of tools.
• Identify resource needs for institutionalization, using the resource-based facilitation framework as a framework.
• Recommend and support strategies to scale up the facilitation approach within the IRFF. 

Stakeholder Engagement

Facilitate learning and strategy sessions with IRFF Regional Leads and UNDP Country Focal Points to introduce the facilitation approach and co-