Overview

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.

Building on a decade of successful conferencing during which we achieved the mainstreaming of the landscape approach the GLF has evolved to five innovation areas each set up to contribute to strengthening and enabling decentralized local action towards ecosystem restoration and sustainable development. These include: 1) Creating a Digital Knowledge Commons (having reached a billion people in 185 countries); 2) Pioneering Youth Leadership (60,000, 160 countries); 3) GLF Learning Program (Landscape Academy (18,000 learners); 4) GLF Investment Case, sustainable finance, and value chains, and 5) GLFx and GLF Communities of Practice. GLFx, is our program to decentralize the Forum to create community led GLF chapters, and communities of practice, that are designed to carry out restoration and other activities (including advocacy) on the ground while creating a learning hub at the national and subnational level.

GLF is supported by its Charter Members, 33 leading sustainable development organisations who invest in and co-create activities on the GLF platform and offer opportunities for intergenerational learning and exchange.

GLF is a place where a farmer can inform action, pathways, and policies; where international organizations can learn from the private sector and vice versa; and where CEOs, community leaders, communicators and scientists can share, learn, connect, and act together.

From building the investment case for sustainable landscapes, to conserving and restoring peatlands, to supporting restoration in Africa, GLF has been at the cutting edge in hosting and facilitating all manner of discussions to accelerate positive action for people, for the environment, and for the achievement of global climate and SDGs.

Duties and responsibilities

The primary objective of the Learning Officer is to manage the Landscape Academy website and the development of the Digital Campus, including the design and delivery of blended learning trajectories, organizing and curating learning opportunities and resources, and managing an online community of learners.

The Learning Officer will work closely with the Knowledge and Learning Coordinator to ensure the effective delivery of the learning strategy, processes and activities.  

• Manage the Landscape Academy Website
  

1. Continuous update of Landscape Academy’s webpage and its content, including identifying additional learning products from partners and the worldwide web, be featured
   
2. Linking the landscape academy and the knowledge hub

• Design and development of the Digital Campus, including online learning products and resources, learning management systems and an online community of learners
  

1. Extensive research into digital platforms, leading consultations with strategic partners and GLF teams to select the most appropriate platform
   
2. Lead the implementation of the resource hub, learning management system and community platform
   
3. Manage the online community of learners and restoration education members with continuous updates and opportunities, networking, discussion threads, and facilitate knowledge-exchange
   
4. Continuous update of the resource hub, and learning products, support in producing learning products as needed.
   
5. Contribute towards the strategic development of the digital knowledge commons alongside the digital campus
   
6. Enabling the transformation of knowledge products into learning relevant formats.
   

• Facilitate 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
  

1. Content management and technical support of the learning management system
   
2. Instructional Design for blended learning trajectories planning and creation, and development of instructional materials and content alongside blended learning trajectory content experts.
   
3. Course delivery and facilitation in blended learning modalities
   
4. Delivery of interdisciplinary restoration education courses, trainings and learning product development