Join the Learning Community for Change: Recruiting Experts for Our Consultant Roster

Are you passionate about transforming global systems through inclusive, equitable, and decolonial approaches?

The Learning Community for Change (LCC) is seeking experienced professionals to help drive impactful change across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors. If you are committed to challenging colonial legacies and promoting inclusion at every level, we want to hear from you.

About us

LCC is a women-led, not-for-profit network dedicated to creating systemic change through learning, equity, and amplifying the voices of marginalised communities. We work across humanitarian aid, development, and peacebuilding sectors, advocating for feminist, decolonial principles that inform all our projects.

Our recent initiatives include co-designing learning programmes for senior leaders from the UN, international and national NGOs, and governments, as well as supporting capacity-building in conflict-affected regions. We enhance civil society organisations' advocacy efforts, foster global equity, and ensure accountability for better outcomes. Every project is driven by professionalism, integrity, and compassion.

Why join us?

• Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and passionate community that values your strengths and respects your vulnerabilities, providing space to lead and innovate.

• Engage in shared learning experiences, and expand your network with experts in the field.

• Collaborate with experts from around the world to co-create new initiatives and deliver meaningful results.

We are currently recruiting for consultants to support the following key areas:

• Sport and Development: Particularly with experience working with International Federations to enhance inclusive practices and policies, ensuring that sport serves as a tool for empowerment and social change. This includes fostering gender equity, accessibility for people with disabilities, and promoting diverse participation across all levels of sport.

• Decolonisation: Focused on redefining global development practices by addressing the legacies of colonialism. This involves shifting power dynamics, redistributing resources, and centring local knowledge and community-led solutions in decision-making processes. Consultants will be expected to challenge power colonial structures and work towards a more equitable and inclusive global development framework.

• Inclusion: Promoting the rights and active participation of older people, people with disabilities, and other marginalised groups in society. This includes ensuring equal access to opportunities, services, and decision-making processes while addressing systemic barriers and biases. Consultants will support the development and implementation of inclusive policies and programmes.

• Feminist approaches: Advocating for and applying feminist principles to all areas of work, with a focus on gender equality, empowerment of women and girls, and the dismantling of patriarchal structures. This includes embedding feminist leadership practices in organisational structures, decision-making, and programme design, ensuring that women’s voices are prioritised and heard in global development initiatives.

• Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Supporting the creation and implementation of safeguarding frameworks to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) within humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding contexts. Consultants will help organisations adopt robust policies, build capacity, and ensure accountability mechanisms are in place to protect at-risk populations and individuals from abuse and exploitation.

• Child protection: Designing and supporting systems to protect children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, particularly in conflict and emergency settings. This includes developing child protection policies, training staff, and working with local communities to ensure the rights and safety of children are prioritised and upheld.

• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning: Tracking, assessing, and enhancing programme effectiveness by generating evidence, fostering continuous learning, ensuring accountability, and collaborating closely with stakeholders to provide contextually relevant insights, ultimately driving improvements in design, implementation, and long-term sustainable impact. Learning is at the core of our approach. We are committed to fostering transformative processes that foreground the voices of underrepresented communities, provide multidimensional accountability and shift power dynamics. Recognising the need for a different kind of MERL - one that is locally led and owned, addresses structural imbalances, and promotes decolonial practices, we integrate local ways of learning, rather than relying solely on conventional metrics.

Required expertise We are seeking professionals with minimum of five years’ experience in one or more of the following:

• Capacity assessments: Designing participatory evaluations to assess organisational strengths and development areas.

• Learning frameworks: Developing curricula and frameworks aligned with feminist and decolonial principles.

• Competency frameworks: Creating models that reflect sector standards and organisational culture.

• Tailored learning programmes: Designing accessible, multi-format learning, from workshops to self-paced modules.

• Mentoring and coaching: Providing support to enhance individual and team capacity.

• Facilitation: Leading workshops to foster collaborative decision-making.

• Policy advocacy and research: Using research to inform inclusive policy and advocacy.

• MEAL frameworks: Designing frameworks that challenge inequities by embedding mechanisms for continuous learning, fostering accountability, and promoting sustainable, locally-led solutions that drive systemic change.

• Research and evaluation: Conducting research to inform decision-making, with results presented in actionable, user-friendly formats.

Educational and professional background

Candidates must possess a Master's level degree or equivalent training in the specific subject matter expertise. Alternatively, candidates may qualify with a minimum of 10 years' experience in the respective field, as we acknowledge that individuals develop their professional skills and competencies through various experiences and pathways.

Core competencies

• Commitment to collaboration, diversity, and equity.

• A deep commitment to social justice, decolonial practices, and feminist values.

• Integrity and passion for driving inclusive change.

How to apply

If you share our vision and have the relevant expertise and experience, we invite you to apply. Please complete the brief questionnaire by 28 February 2025. You will be required to upload your CV and answer questions regarding your expertise and interest. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply early.

Applications will undergo an initial review by our selection committee, which we aim to complete within two weeks after the application deadline. Successful applicants will be notified of their advancement to the next stage, which may involve an interview and reference checks.

Final notifications, indicating the outcome of the selection process, will be sent to all applicants no later than four weeks after the application deadline.

For any inquiries only please contact ketikhurtsia@learningcommunityforchange.org

Equal opportunity statement LCC is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all applicants, regardless of race, gender identity, disability, or background.