CIVICUS is hiring for a Consultant for Meeting and Workshop Facilitation: Apply Now
Closing Date: 31 October 2025
CIVICUS is hiring for a Consultant for Meeting and Workshop Facilitation: Apply Now
Terms of reference (TOR): Consultant for Meeting and Workshop Facilitation
CIVICUS is looking for a highly qualified and inspiring Consultant for Meeting and Workshop Facilitation to provide facilitation, agenda co-design, and strengthen creative approaches to communications across the alliance. The consultant will play a key role in ensuring CIVICUS’ convenings, workshops, and engagements are inclusive, participatory, and impactful.
The selected consultant will work closely with the CIVICUS team to design and facilitate sessions that build collective strategies, spark innovation, and enhance communications practice across the organisation.
About CIVICUS
CIVICUS is a growing global alliance of more than 15,000 members in 175 countries. CIVICUS work together to expand civic and democratic space and strive to promote excluded voices, particularly from the global south.
CIVICUS Strategic Plan is built on the assumption that they are stronger when they work together. Expanding civic and democratic space requires a collective effort where its members and allies design and test sustainable solutions and deliver impact at scale.
To make this happen, CIVICUS works on five core objectives:
- Generate timely knowledge and analyses on civil society actions in relation to civic and democratic space
- Coordinate targeted advocacy to defend and expand civic and democratic space
- Contribute to stronger emergency and sustained support ecosystems for activists and organisations at risk
- Strengthen public discourse on civic space and reinforce civil society narratives
- Build counter power with the most affected groups and their movement
Background and Objectives
CIVICUS regularly convenes members, partners, staff, and allies through virtual and in-person meetings to connect, collaborate, and strategise. In addition, CIVICUS seeks to continually strengthen its own communications and creative practices to better amplify civil society voices.
The consultant will provide expertise in facilitation, co-design, and creative innovation, ensuring that engagements are dynamic, inclusive, and result in actionable outcomes that support CIVICUS’ mission.
Deliverables and responsibilities:
- Co-design and facilitate convenings and workshops (both virtual and in-person) for CIVICUS and its partners, ensuring inclusive and participatory approaches.
- Identify gaps in CIVICUS’ current approaches and integrate the necessary elements for relevant and impactful sessions.
- Support agenda development and session planning for organisational and network convenings, prioritising collaboration, learning, strategy building, and innovation.
- Facilitate creative and strategic sessions that strengthen CIVICUS’ communications and public engagement practices.
- Ensure wellbeing, diversity, and inclusivity are integrated into the design and delivery of all engagements.
- Produce post-session reports and toolkits to capture key discussions, learnings, and recommendations, ensuring outcomes are actionable and accessible.
- Advise on methodologies and practices to strengthen CIVICUS’ approaches to communications, narrative building, and engagement.
The Consultant
- Demonstrated experience in designing and facilitating inclusive and participatory sessions
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
- Ability to translate complex discussions into clear and actionable outputs
- Experience working with civil society organisations and communicators, particularly those belonging to traditionally excluded or marginalised groups.
- Fluency in English is required (proficiency in additional languages will be an advantage)
To apply, share the following to comms[email protected] by 31 October 2025, with the subject line for Meeting Facilitator:
- Maximum 3-page brief detailing your approach to the consultancy
- A brief resume highlighting relevant experience, qualifications, and language proficiencies
- Cost proposal, including all material costs. Include hourly and day rates
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