CONSULTANT FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT OF TRAINING RESOURCES

OUR ORGANISATION

forumZFD (forum Civil Peace Service) provides training and project support in Germany and abroad. With its members, it advocates the renunciation of violence-based policies, reinforcement of civilian resources in the state and society and democratic participation of all social, ethnic and religious groups.

forumZFD currently has more than 80 employees working in 14 locations in Germany, the Middle East, the Western Balkans, and South-East Asia. forumZFD has been working in Lebanon since 2009.

The Lebanon-team consists of 16 staff members working in the programme areas of Community Mobilising, Dealing with the Past and Capacity Development.

In the field of Capacity Development forumZFD supports conflict transformation and peace-building projects and enhances the capability of NGOs to work in a conflict sensitive manner through training and mentoring. The portfolio of trainings forumZFD developed and implemented with partner organisations includes a broad variety of conflict transformation tools and methods such as Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP), Conflict Analysis, Mediation and non-violent communication, just to name a few. 

TasKS AND ReSPONSIBILITIES

In a next step, forumZFD is planning to systematically document its training contents by creating a dynamic body (database) of resources, knowledge, and approaches in the field of conflict transformation with an emphasis on material in Arabic and the Middle East as a target region. The process will kick off with a workshop that is dedicated to designing the process further and will be followed by working phases occurring in pre-defined regular intervals, comprising of 4-8 half days per month.

To realize this task, we are seeking an experienced consultant who supports us in a process designed to capture and gather the knowledge existing in the organization and lay it down systematically in training units in cooperation with the capacity development team which consists of three persons.

• Responsible for developing and supporting the documentation and management process of resources related to the training content of forumZFD in cooperation with trainers and responsible staff 
• Identify, design and develop modules for capacity development activities/units based on a consultation process with forumZFD trainers and responsible staff
• Generate and manage (knowledge) materials to be published in both web-based and printed forms
• Ensure effective process of collecting and developing materials in cooperation with trainers and responsible staff
• Encourage the staff to share knowledge effectively and efficiently

YOUR PROFILE

• Ability to establish a coherent course of action to achieve goals, ability to translate plans into actions, organise work, monitor & review outcomes, and communicate the results clearly both orally and in writing;
• Experience in developing training materials in the field of development in general, and ideally in the field of conflict transformation & peace building
• Good skills in capturing, analyzing, structuring and managing information effectively using appropriate  computerized systems and formats;
• Good analyzing skills and ability to tackle complex situations
• Good communications skills  and ability to maintain constructive work relationships with the involved staff members;
• Very good written and spoken command of English and Arabic