Background
You will be developing the overarching vision and the strategy of the learning and design workstreams within the China Programme for accelerating the circular economy. This vision will need to be aligned with the Foundation’s global approach to both formal and informal learning and be informed by learning across all the Foundation’s key geographies. You will also work across other workstreams to co-ordinate strategic links and make sure circular economy insights and knowledge are well embedded.
The ambition of the Foundation’s work in China is threefold: to broaden the scope, the understanding and the adoption of the circular economy, with a view to enable better forms of economic growth. Our strategy revolves around four building blocks that have been at the core of the Foundation’s strategy, placing emphasis on high-level relationships, local demonstrators, and building capacity through communications, learning, insights and analysis.
● Engage, exchange – Information exchange to bridge best practices between China and international examples; translate and tailor circular economy research findings to different audience groups in China; make China-specific and international insights available in both Chinese and English; open-access; an online repository.
● Mobilise along value chains. Mobilise stakeholders around selected material streams and value chains, such as plastics, fashion and food.
● Convene, shape pilots and implement in cities. Use cities as a focal point to build multi-stakeholder coalitions and conduct city pilots covering the whole process from strategy development, financing, dialogue mechanisms, implementation process, to measurement, and turning lessons learnt into shareable knowledge assets.
● Equip – Businesses, students and citizens. Develop educational initiatives to complement our work and embed systems thinking. Focus on engaging the design community, businesses, schools and academia to impact strategies of today’s and future decision-makers.
Role and Responsibilities.
Reporting to our Head of Office in Beijing you will:
· Scope the learning and design programme with budget plans; create and execute learning and design strategies and projects in China.
· Produce reports and communications for annual reporting to the funder and the Foundation.
· Identify and build partnerships with top-level universities, associations and companies in China through research engagement, teaching and learning facilitation, high-level dialogue etc.
· Ensure that partners are actively engaged in the Foundation’s events.
· Coordinate the annual EU-China Circular Economy Challenge and the other identified key events of the Programme.
· Support the delivery of e-learning courses, workshops, executive training and capacity building etc, working closely with the Foundation’s learning team to ensure content is not duplicated and shared across geographies where relevant.
· Build a strong relationship with the national & local education authorities in China.
Your profile
· Experience of working with the Higher Education sector is preferred, but not essential.
· Excellent written and spoken English and Mandarin is a prerequisite.
· Knowledge of the circular economy framework would be a definite advantage.
· Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills both face to face and online providing the ability to quickly build strong professional connections at a range of levels.
· Ability to deliver work on an ‘outcome’ basis and develop methodology to achieve that i.e structure and solve complex problems, extract key insights from data, analyse and discuss with a broad spectrum of stakeholders
· Experience in developing and delivering learning and design opportunities in a variety of formats for a wide range of audience types.
· A good academic record and degree level qualifications in business, economics, science, engineering, political or social science, or other relevant discipline together with 3-5 years work experience.
· Must be prepared to travel within China and internationally.
· Must be a Chinese citizen.
Please apply with CV, covering letter and salary expectation by 20th July 2020
Desired starting date: As soon as possible
Salary package: Competitive within the charity sector and
dependent on experience
Location: Beijing, China
Closing date: 20th July 2020