The Position: SweetGAINS is an ambitious three-year project designed to modernize sweetpotato breeding in Africa. SweetGAINS will improve breeding operations and methodologies, ensure integration between breeding outputs and early generation seed availability, and strengthen a joint SpeedBreeders and Seed Community of Practice (CoP) by 2022. Due to the COVID-19 situation – physical meetings and workshops have been stopped. Therefore, we propose to run a virtual training for SweetGAINS colleagues (CIP and partners) on how to prepare and organize virtual meetings and workshops. This training should include review of potential ICT platforms for different types of meetings (together with CIP IT and data management team); on-line meeting process management; maintaining engagement to achieve meeting/workshop outputs.
Key responsibilities:
- Preparation of virtual training e.g. needs assessment (content, process and ICT platforms), training plan, and sending pre-training tasks and notifications (2 days).
- Facilitate training: report on training, participants’ evaluation (8 hours to be allocated over a number of days/groups -to be agreed as part of point 1)
- Preparation of resource materials (e.g. 2 x quick tips) (1 day)
- Mentor and follow up: (8 hours)
Selection Criteria:
- PhD. in Organizational change in multi-cultural teams.
- At least 20 years of relevant work experience in mentoring effective team processes.
- Experience in Training for facilitation of on-line/virtual meetings and processes.
- In-depth understanding of CGIAR.
- Strategic management and organizational change processes.
- Development of resource materials for virtual meetings/workshops.
- Experience in gender and diversity training.
- Advanced written and oral communication skills in English.
What are the conditions?
This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of five working days.
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