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Knowledge and Learning Internship

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The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) was first launched in 2013 by CIFOR with core partners including UNEP, the World Bank, and the Government of Germany. Meaningful engagement of youth and other typically marginalized stakeholders was a cornerstone of GLF’s operation from the beginning.

Today, the GLF is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on sustainable land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement, and is supported by its 33 Charter Members all leading sustainable development organisations.

Building on a decade of successful conferencing during which the mainstreaming of the landscape approach was achieved the GLF has evolved to five innovation areas each set up to contribute to strengthening and enabling landscape level action for sustainable development, addressing biodiversity loss and climate change. These include: 1) Creating a Digital Knowledge Commons on landscape approaches (having reached a billion people in 185 countries); 2) Pioneering Youth Leadership (60,000, 160 countries); 3) Capacitating the landscape professional through its GLF Learning Program (Landscape Academy (18,000 learners); 4) GLF Investment Case, sustainable finance, and value chains, and 5) GLFx community-led chapters.

Duties and responsibilities:

The primary objective of the Knowledge and Learning Intern is to support the management of the Landscape Academy website and the Digital Campus and develop material and activities for GLF’s communication and outreach channels.

The specific tasks of the Knowledge and Learning intern are:

Support the management of the Landscape Academy Website and Digital Campus:

  • Continuous update of Landscape Academy’s webpage and its content, including monthly audits, identifying additional learning products from partners and the worldwide web, to be featured and promoted.
  • Support the management of the online community of learners and restoration education members on the Digital Campus with continuous updates and opportunities, networking, discussion threads, and facilitate knowledge-exchange.
  • Support the transformation of knowledge products into learning relevant formats and assist in ensuring content between the Knowledge Hub, Landscape Academy and the Digital Campus is coherent and consistent.
  • Assist in the design and development of blended learning trajectories on landscape related topics and hosted on the Academy’s web page, in collaboration with YIL, GLFx and GLF partners.
Assist in developing communications related material for GLF Learning projects
  • Supporting writing and development of communications materials, including articles, scripts, and other material used to promote GLF learning key messages and outcomes across GLF communications and social media channels.
  • Assist in the community management of the Digital Campus’ learners, including facilitating knowledge-exchange and increasing the interactivity of the Digital Campus
  • Support in the design and delivery of learning related events, workshops
Education, knowledge and experience:
  • Recently graduated in environmental studies, geography, education, with additional experience in communications, marketing, documentary, writing, environment, social studies or related disciplines;
  • An ability to identify useful and relevant knowledge, and understand the different needs of a broad community;
  • Be familiar with the principles of education and adult education and have experience with online learning design.
  • Fluent in English. A French or Spanish speaker is desirable;
  • Understanding of WordPress CMS desirable: in particular, an understanding of categories, tags, taxonomies, and basic database schema;
  • Knowledge of Python, Java or another programming language is desirable;

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