Request for

quote

Innovation Partners

Spring 2017

Our mission is to enable people

around the world to prepare for

and respond to crises in their own

countries.-

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Collaboration sought:

To work with the Academy to share

expertise and knowledge and to support

the design, facilitation and evaluation of

various innovation activities. Possible

assignments could include running

workshops, writing case studies and

supporting innovation labs. See below for

more details…

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Background

The Academy

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1.

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy is a global learning

initiative set up to facilitate partnerships and collaborative

opportunities to enable people to prepare for and respond

to crises in their own countries.

We are collaborating with local, national, regional and

global organisations, communities and individuals to

develop learning resources and tools. By supporting people

at the grassroots level, we will enable them to be better

prepared for a disaster, respond quicker and to have

increased resilience after a crisis.

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy

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In the next five years, the Academy is opening ten Academy Centres in targeted locations reaching out to vulnerable communities. The centres will be reaching 40 countries across Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.

Each Academy Centre will be reaching out to partners in the region, finding out the needs of communities and establishing ways to create strategic partnerships.

How does it work?

Collaboration is at the heart of meeting a challenge on this scale. We will partner with and facilitate partnership opportunities with the corporate sector, learning professionals, academia, international institutions, governments and NGOs from across the globe to provide learning resources and tools for individuals and organisations. The aim is to build a comprehensive network that reaches people on the ground where the learning tools are most needed.

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The Academy is built on three defining pillars of Learning,

Knowledge and Innovation. In line with this, the Academy

aims to be a leader and catalyst in innovation within the

humanitarian sector.

A range of areas has been identified where the Academy

has unique strengths, vision, and the drive to deliver learning

and knowledge sharing in new ways. The Academy is a

young, entrepreneurial organisation, and has the flexibility to

experiment in how it delivers programmes, who it supports,

and how it works. Thanks to this flexibility and a genuine

desire to collaborate, the Academy is well positioned to

innovate in the field of learning and develop a culture of

innovation throughout the humanitarian sector.

Innovation as a core pillar of our strategy

innovation in learning and learning about innovation

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What are we

looking for?

Specification

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The Humanitarian Leadership Academy is in a period of growth, and due to our decentralised approach, we will not have an extensive staff team based in the Global Academy Office (GAO) in the UK.

This means that we will regularly need to engage external collaborators to support Academy initiatives and projects, often at short notice.

As recruiting, vetting and contracting such expertise can take a significant amount of time, the Academy wishes to recruit a pool of partners who are pre-vetted, so that when a suitable assignment comes up they can be identified and contracted in a much shorter timeframe.

Specification: Overview

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We are looking for a range of external partners to

collaborate with the Academy to deliver various

innovation engagements and provide us with expertise

and advice and to support the design, facilitation and

evaluation of these innovation activities.

Ideally we would like to recruit several agencies or

consultancies with 2 or more members of staff that can

work with us on some of our larger innovation projects.

Specification: Areas of collaboration

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Your involvement could include - but is not limited to - the areas

of support listed below…

Development of curricula for innovation learning in a

humanitarian setting for a variety of audiences

Creation of innovation learning materials and toolkits for use

globally in-person, online and in blended programmes

Development of facilitation guides for running workshops

Creation and aggregation of content for Massive Open Online

Courses (MOOCs)

Contextualisation of existing innovation content and materials

for local learners

Development of user personas to inform the design of learning curricula and products

Designing learning materials and innovation curricula

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Specification: Areas of collaboration

Creation and facilitation of engaging workshops including

foundation workshops (innovation tools, methods, behaviours

etc.), masterclasses in innovation, train the trainer workshops

Creation and facilitation of webinars themed around learning

about innovation and innovation in learning

Design and facilitation of MOOCs specifically for innovation within a humanitarian context

Run ad hoc innovation engagements in partnership with the

Academy (e.g. at conferences or events)

Designing and running innovation events

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Specification: Areas of collaboration

Setting up, advising on and overseeing incubators, innovation

labs and accelerators

Development and facilitation of creative ideation sessions

including hackathons and co-creation sessions

Assessment of existing local innovative techniques and inventions which operate in the sphere of learning, and

recommendations of which of these to support

Nurturing local innovation

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Specification: Areas of collaboration

Documentation of previous innovation activities through

writing case studies and reports. These could be relating to

activities that you have worked on directly, or to a previous

programme that the Academy has been involved with

Capture and dissemination of the learnings and feedback

from specific innovation activities, evaluation against KPIs

and recommendations for future improvements

Documentation and evaluation

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Specification: Areas of collaboration

Specification: Examples of previous work

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2-day innovation train

the trainer workshop and

introduction to

gamification creative

session in Nairobi, Kenya

In collaboration with an

internationally renowned

NGO, writing a set of case

studies to evaluate and

document learnings from

an innovation challenge in

Indonesia

3-day gamification

workshop in Manila,

the Philippines

Running a co-creation

workshop and hosting a

panel discussion on

humanitarian learning and

innovation for an

international humanitarian

conference in London

Demonstrable practical expertise in innovation

methodology, innovation learning activities, ideation

events and incubation programmes.

Extensive international project management experience,

including proven history of working with multiple partners

and or/consortia

Experience working in multiple sectors, exposure to

development and/or humanitarian organisations a plus

Ability to write succinct and engaging materials that are

accessible to a wide range of audiences with differing

needs

Knowledge of the technology sector, particularly new

innovations that will affect the future of learning

Specification: Essential experience

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Competency in English language:Fluency in English is a must. Our business language is English

between Local Centres, so you must be able to write and speak

in good English. We work across a variety of global regions,

which are expanding on a regular basis and we therefore may

need other languages depending on location of the innovation

activity.

It is especially important to have a proofreading team of native

local language speakers for all written/published work.

Facilitators will need to have impeccable local language skills.

Ability to travel:Our innovation activities take place across the globe and in

varying locations. Our partners must be willing and able to travel

when necessary to complete the required assignments.

Specification: Essential criteria

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Expression of

Interest

Content, structure,

timelines

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3.

Please download and use this template for your Expression of Interest

C.Vs are not accepted for this application

– please do not attach them to the EOI

Please submit completed EOIs to

info@humanitarian.academy with the email

subject as; “Innovation Partners

Application” and ensure the attachment is also saved in your name/name of your

company

The deadline is 3pm UK time on 2nd May

Submitting an expression of interest (EOI)

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EOIs received by: 3pm UK Time on 2nd May

Shortlisting and follow-up interviews: w/c 8th May

Contractual process started: w/c 15th May

Timeline for selection

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The Academy’s due diligence procedures include reference checks,

organisational checks, and anti-terrorism vetting.

All the Academy’s operations are subject to evaluation under its Learning and

Development, Monitoring and Evaluation and Knowledge and Evidence

strategies, with case studies created at the Academy’s discretion.

All data collected or generated through the delivery of the Academy’s activities

will be owned by the Academy unless otherwise agreed at the time of purchase.

Papers, case studies, training materials and resources resulting from the

Academy’s innovation work purchased under this framework will be made

publically available unless otherwise agreed at the time of purchase.

General information

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Thank you for your

interest in working with

the Academy

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