Result of Service

The ultimate expected result of this consultancy is to increase the impactfulness of the 2025 Global Platform High Level Dialogues and Thematic Sessions.

Work Location

Home based

Expected duration

6 weeks

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is being recruited to lead the custom design – and facilitation- of a virtual bespoke workshop for UNDRR staff members who are leading the preparations of respective sessions for the Global Platform 2025 (referred to as UNDRR Session Focal Points). The workshop is expected to be delivered in mid-November 2024 when Session Focal Points are in the stage of finalizing the session’s design, format, expected outcomes and guiding questions in consultation with their respective networks of external experts (known as GP2025 Organizing Teams). This bespoke workshop is concieved as one important pitstop on the overall quality control process of the substantive preparations towards the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. It is anticipated that elements of Design Thinking; Play-based Learning; and other frontier organizational effectiveness methodologies be used to design the workshop. Duties will include: – Conducting user interviews with relevant UNDRR colleagues to understand the baseline of preparations and the aspirations of success at the Global Platform – Design a 4 hour workshop bringing to bear a range of relevant methodologies for organizational effectiveness – Deliver workshop – Obtain user feedback – Prepare final report including recommendations for the future Concrete deliverables: o Deliverable 1: Summary of user interviews with 3-5 select Session Focal Points and extended group interview with 2025GP Secretariat Team o Deliverable 2: Proposal/presentation on programme and methodology of 4-hour workshop, which is consequently revised per 2 rounds of feedback from GP Team o Deliverable 3: 4-hour Workshop delivered twice (morning and afternoon slots to accomodate all time zones) o Deliverable 4: Final summary and recommendations. The work will be fully home-based with no travel anticipated.

Qualifications/special skills

Outcome-driven workshop design Strategic dialogue & workshop facilitation Organizational effectiveness

Languages

Not available.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.