Capacity Building Associate

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To be successful in this role, you will excel in the following areas:
● Street design knowledge and experience: Passion for street design, sustainable mobility, and

public spaces. Commitmentto reimagine streets as places for people, shaping cities that are

safe, healthy, accessible, and equitable for everyone.

● Design and communication skills: Strong visual and verbal communication skills with the ability

to create clear, engaging, and well-structured presentations, narratives, and training materials.

Familiarity with instructional design or online education is a plus.

● Organization and coordination: Excellent administrative and organizational skills, including

tracking timelines, attention to detail, managing multiple workstreams, and following up on

tasks.

● Collaboration and adaptability: Comfortable working across teams, programs, and cultural

contexts.

● Global, inclusive perspective: Ability to work across cultural and geographic contexts, with

sensitivity to diverse local and individual needs and the flexibility to adapt content approaches

accordingly.


Responsibilities
Assistin the coordination ofthe capacity-building strategy and organization
● Contribute to the ongoing refinement of GDCI’s cross-cutting capacity building approach as

part of a recently established team.

● Organize and maintain capacity building resources, such as presentation master decks,

workshop tools, and supplemental materials,to create an easily accessible, up-to-date, and

shareable library of content.

● Work closely with teams across programs to standardize and implement structures and

protocols forinternal and external capacity building at GDCI.

● Align and coordinate with the Communications team to streamline content between capacity

building and external digital communication, including graphics, animations, and videos.

● Stay in regular communication with program teams to understand and document current and

future needs, priorities,feedback, and capacity-building goals.


Support cross-cutting capacity-building content development and delivery

● Supportthe development of new materials, and curriculum design in collaboration with

program teams.

● Supportinternal and external knowledge-sharing efforts related to contentfrom new guides

and publications. This could include supporting webinars, workshops for conferences, online

courses and resources, and internal knowledge sharing on the content, etc.

● Supportteams in preparing for and delivering high-quality capacity-building sessions to city

teams, community members, and other audiences.

● Stay informed on currenttrends, latesttechnologies and AI capabilities to help introduce new

ideas,tools, and approaches from the evolving field of capacity building, instructional design,

and online education.

● Research and apply effective storytelling strategies informed by the psychology oflearning.

● Adapt and refine contentfor diverse audiences, geographies, and delivery formats.

● Coordinate translation of materials and help ensure accessibility across languages,regions, and

platforms.


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