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Background on Tearfund

Who we are: We are a Christian organisation partnering with the

local church wherever possible to see change in the lives of those
in greatest economic need. We believe poverty is caused by
broken relationships with God, others, the environment and
ourselves, and working to see those relationships restored is key to
how we work. We want to see change that is economic, material,
environmental and spiritual. See: Tearfund’s Theology of Mission

Our vision: To see people freed from poverty, living transformed

lives and reaching their God-given potential

Our mission: We follow Jesus where the need is greatest,

responding to crisis and partnering with local churches to bring
restoration to those living in poverty

Our values: We aspire to be courageous, truthful, compassionate,

servant-hearted and Christ-centred

Relevant scriptures include: 2 Cor. 5:8-11, James 3:18, Romans

8:18-25, Philippians 4:7, John 10:10, Luke 4:16-21 and Micah 6:8

Tearfund’s Application Process

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registration form. As you progress through your application, please
ensure that you save each section.

If after reading through this Job Profile, you have any questions or
want to find out more about our recruitment process, please do
not hesitate to contact lac-recruitment@tearfund.org.

In this Job Profile pack we’ve included a full Job Description as well
as a Person Specification. Please ensure that your application
clearly shows how your skills and experience meet the
requirements for this post.

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Job Profile

Job Title LAC Learning and innovation officer

Group International Group
Team Latin American and Caribbean Cluster
Location Honduras, Colombia, Haiti, Brasil
Responsible to LAC DME advisor

Part 1 – Job description

1. Main purpose of the job

The Learning and Innovation Officer will be responsible for systematically capturing and sharing of
programmatic learning, while ensuring their application throughout the LAC Cluster programme. The
Learning Officer will establish mechanisms for the ongoing capture, management and dissemination of
learning and promote its sharing throughout the LAC Cluster programme and the wider Tearfund
organisation at large. Tasks will focus on promoting innovation through designing knowledge and learning
capture methodologies as well as the strategic dissemination of lessons learnt tailored for programme
staff across LAC Cluster in the development and emergency sectors. The Learning and Innovation Officer
will design learning resources and visualisation tools including infographics, graphs, charts, one-page
snapshots and/or summaries of findings, and other user-friendly products within LAC programming for
targeted internal and external audiences. The learning products will be shared with LAC Cluster teams,
Partners and UK teams for the promotion and support of a culture of innovation and learning.

2. Position in organisation
● Member of International Group
● Reports to the LAC DME Advisor
● Works closely with Country Directors and Project Officers.
● Works closely with the Quality, Accountability and Learning (QUAL) unit
● Works closely with the comms officer to produce audio visual material that allows learning to be
shared with an internal and external audience
● Grade : 4

3. Tearfund’s Christian culture

We believe that prayer and discernment is fundamental to Tearfund achieving its mission of restoring
relationships, ending extreme poverty and transforming lives. As a Tearfund staff member you are expected
to:

● Engage with Tearfund Prays and the Prayer hub

● Lead or participate in spiritual sessions of prayer and biblical reflection within your group
● Be committed to Tearfund’s Mission, Values and Beliefs statement and to be actively working and living in
accordance with Tearfund’s Christian beliefs and theology of mission
● Maintain your own spiritual development, discover your gifts/callings and grow in discipleship

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 4. Organisational requirements
● All staff are expected to live out Tearfund’s values as they represent Tearfund externally
● All post-holders are expected to fulfil their personal objectives set by their line manager, contribute to
their team’s overall objectives, take responsibility for reviewing their ongoing personal development and
maintain an awareness of Tearfund's strategy.
● All Tearfund staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including
identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.

5. Key Responsibilities
Learning culture
● Promote and support a culture of innovation and learning within the Cluster team, country offices
and partners across portfolios.
● Contribute to organisational learning through the design of procedures, processes, and systems to
encourage and facilitate more effective sharing of program results, approaches, feedback from
partners, and lessons learned throughout the LAC Cluster, using this insight to contribute to the
field and shape future programs.
● Establish and lead learning capture processes with country offices and partners including
facilitating regular forums to discuss lessons learnt and their application to future programme
design.
Learning practices
● Strengthen learning practices across the LAC Cluster through training, workshops, webinars, etc.
● Keep abreast of developments in learning technologies to ensure that LAC Cluster programming
remains agile and relevant, in order to advise and recommend tools and strategies to capture
programmatic adaptations and results.
● Document and share learning – ensure requirements, lessons learned, and best practices for
products, events, and other knowledge management activities are clear and documented.
Innovation
● Responsible for promoting innovation throughout the programme interventions, sharing of
knowledge and good practises and encouraging staff to do the same.
● Support Country offices and partners in identifying pressing challenges in their context and
co-develop novel and creative solutions by drawing on a broad range of innovative approaches,
frameworks and methods.
● Remain up-to-date on innovations, approaches and technologies, particularly those that could be
potentially applied to the development and humanitarian sector.
● Facilitate dialogues and workshops to make innovation accessible to the LAC Cluster peers by
guiding them through problem exploration, solution design and experimentation.
Collaboration
● Collaborate with DME Advisor and entire PO’s team to identify and adapt approaches, tools and
resources to better equip partners.
● Work with Cluster teams to ensure that key learnings are incorporated in upcoming proposal
plans and interventions.
● Liaise with the Quality, Accountability and Learning (QUAL) unit to ensure learning is reflected
across the organization systematically as well as to ensure that relevant learning captured in other
Tearfund country programmes is shared with LAC Cluster.
● Works closely with project officers to build partner capacity to develop and implement good
practices to mainstream the Quality Standards of Tearfund: Behaviour, Impartiality and Targeting,
Accountability, Gender, Empowerment, Resilience, Technical Quality and Protection.
● Coordinate content for the different learning initiatives which Tearfund develops e.g Community
of practice platform (CoP), e-learning modules on Learning Pool for LAC, etc.

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Part 2 – Person specification

Job title: Learning and Innovation Officer

ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE
Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Education, human Master Degree in education and/ or
development related to Learning, Training human development
and/or Development or in Social or related
field.

Experience in qualitative and

Experience in the learning field or conducting quantitative research methodologies,
training. and analysis

Experience in facilitating training and Experience working in multicultural,

workshops, learning sessions, and community multi -location, values driven teams;
engagement.

Experience in quantitative and qualitative data

collection (M&E methods) and data analysis

Proven experience of capturing and sharing of

learning to build the capacity of others.

Skills/Abilities
Excellent writing and verbal communication Fluent written and spoken French
skills in Spanish and English. and/or Portuguese

A basic understanding of statistical analysis Analytical mindset and ability to

analyse and synthesise data from
Strong interpersonal communication skills and large-scale learning operations
excellent written and analytic skills, report
writing, networking, and representation; Ability to manage multiple tasks and
projects with multiple priorities;
Good analytical skills and the ability to
extrapolate lessons to other situations; Experience of teaching, coaching and
supporting people.
Flexible, innovative, proactive, to work under
tight deadlines and have excellent
follow-through skills.

Ability to work both independently and as part

of a collaborative team effort.

Ability to analyse and organise data and

communicate results effectively;

Personal Qualities
● Committed Christian who recognises Be risks taker, and have a nose for
Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour entrepreneurial opportunities;

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 ● Committed to Tearfund's Mission,
Values and Beliefs Sound knowledge of online learning
● Be a self-starter and to work with content development processes.
limited supervision.
● Maintain sound ethical principles,
integrity, and transparency of the due
process

OTHER COMMENTS:
● All roles require a DBS/Police check
● Tearfund is a member of the SCHR Misconduct Disclosure Scheme
● Personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against
criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure
● Regular travel across cluster countries is a requirement.

100 Church Road, Teddington TW11 8QE United Kingdom

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