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-Kl C 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-Kl C Challenge Owners, Partners
  

• European Commission stakeholders, EIT and other funders
  

• International funders like philanthropies, public and private institutions.
  

ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role you will be passionate about making a critical contribution with your skills to EIT Climate-Kl C’s mission of making a positive impact on climate change through systemic innovation. You are deeply curious, perceptive, respectful and resilient; oriented toward networking with people and teams and facilitating conversations.

Education/Qualifications

• Relevant academic degree or qualification such as Social Sciences Fields (Sociologist, Anthropologist, Political Science), Environmental Sciences or Design fields (Service Design).
  

Experience

• +3 years working experience in facilitating large scale multi-stakeholder workshops and designing learning contents (online and in-person).
  

• Proven experience, expertise and track record as a practitioner in systems transformation applications and development.
  

• Experience and expertise in building coalitions of organisations and individuals, working to expand the space of engagement, and to stretch learning.
  

• Knowledge and experience of supporting senior decision-making, facilitating and enabling change, nurturing and shaping dialogue in uncharted waters and stimulating thinking about new possibilities.
  

• Strategic thinking with an ability to influence and support self and group-reflection.
  

• Proven track record of working within the Basque country ecosystem.
  

• Active participation and engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
  

Skills

• Fluent in English, Spanish and Basque.
  

• Systems thinking: especially as applied to and derived from experience with real world change.
  
• Possessing a valid driver’s licence as the role requires regular travel within the Gipuzkoa region.
  

• Accountability: good at taking decisions with a consideration of risk and following through on commitments to completion.
  

• Highly developed adaptive leadership / leadership in complexity skills, emphasizing listening to learn, empathy, human-centred design, agility, empowerment, and collaboration.
  

• Familiarity and proficiency in coaching others; able to build capacity by investing in the development of others and in the development of self.
  

• Experience or willingness to work with collaborative IT applications (we use Office365 and Microsoft Teams, as well as Miro, Zoom, Mentimeter etc.)
  

Qualities, Personal Style, and Approach

• Articulate and dynamic, with highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively, inspire and motivate people.
  

• Growth mindset; highly adaptable, flexible and resilient.
  

• Solutions focused, with a “can do” attitude; willing to undertake a range of tasks to meet needs.
  

• Structured and organised
  

• Curious with a learning mindset
  

Location
Candidates must have the right to work in the location they’re applying for (I.e. not require visa sponsorship) prior to applying for the position. Ideally, the successful candidate will be based close to one of the EIT Climate KIC offices, but we support fully remote or hybrid forms of working and offer a high degree of flexibility.

To ensure that we can respond to every single applicant, we will close the role once we receive a reasonable pool of candidates to assess.