Urban Learning Hub Lead

I.         Provide Strategic Guidance to the Urban LH a)       Ensure that the ULH is impact driven toward generating internal and external learning that strengthens NOs in their focus and capacity to successfully reach the partnership Global Targets and MEER and NO strategies.    b)      Ensure that the ULH operates based on the principle of inclusiveness. Align contextually diverse local level advocacy projects from NOs to the ULH.  Ensure the learning from the aligned projects is transmitted back to NOs so as to strengthen impact, scale-up and action.  c)      Ensure that the ULH does not become infrastructure heavy, but instead loosely embraced by the host LebanonNO making the ULH flexible, adaptable, and collaborative. d)      The ULH should develop and celebrate a unique design and implementation plan (DIP) with the aim to generate, transfer and transmit learning into action and impact on CWB in MEER. II. Generate Learning for impact a)       Ensure the ULH is grounded within the real issues facing WV field staff, and that an impact evidence base will emerge equipping a network of NO interested in Urban with the knowledge to expand their financial donor base, deepen their internal and external partnerships, and turn failures into opportunities. b)      Conduct a mapping process, based on solid criteria, to select the NOs best practices within projects. Elevate and connect these projects into a network of Urban aligned projects to generate shared evidence and learning.    c)      Work through the network of aligned projects managed by NOs and ROs to develop Regional Urban Platforms for the purpose of further Urban development d)      Through this network or aligned projects, use the evidence and learning to facilitate change. e)      Identify and explore creative ways to fill skill and systems gaps in producing a professional evidence base needed to informed decision making, investment, and ministry impact in the sphere of Urban. III. Transfer: Impact through collaborative learning a)     Build a ULH that has a goal driven orientation toward transferring knowledge, ensuring scale up of what has been discovered and deemed contextually useful across the NOs to improve child and youth well-being in MEER;  b)    Establish a ULH with a strong field oriented approach based on experimenting, daring to fail, innovating, incubating, discovering, monitoring, and evaluating to ensure that the network of aligned projects in the hubs will organically transfer learning for operational scale-up and fundraising;  c)     The LHs Lead is accountable to ensure a high level of cross-pollination of learning occurs between the network of hubs with the aim to create an open and fluid platform that will effectively disseminate information and ideas, attract innovation, and sharpen impact of our core ministry; d)    Working with FSDs, other LH Leads and the NOs develop a learning agenda from evidence collected through the LHs with a shift from an instructional methodology to a “learning by doing” methodology.  e)     Develop a system whereby the learning is captured from the Urban aligned projects for knowledge refinement and management, and can be simply transferred to NOs as requested and needed to enhance their impact on CWB.     IV. Transmit: Impact through partnership and scale-up a)       The ULH Lead’s extensive internal and external network must attract cutting edge thinking and strategic and technical partnering opportunities;    b)      Ensure the LH plays its part in fundraising by strengthening our comparative advantage through positioning WV NOs as credible thought leaders in key topics within LLA based on a network of evidence and impact driven aligned projects;  c)      Ensure that the learning from the ULH works to enhance NO expertise, building credibility and organizational reputation with governments positioning and enabling NOs to influence reforms and promote “aligned projects to policy adoption” for sustained impact; d)      The ULHs Lead is accountable to ensure innovative scaled-up for impact by involving and enhancing partnering with governments, coalitions, donors, universities and thought leaders stimulating programmatic experimentation and creativity for permanent impact for the most vulnerable;        e)      Provide advice and guidance to national offices in drafting and submitting proposals in alignment with their Urban strategies.