Consultancy: lead facilitator for our Community Event

We are looking for a lead facilitator to design and facilitate an in-person community event for our grantees and funding partners, taking place on 11-12 June 2025 in Brussels.

Time commitment: 15 days between February and June, including 2 days on-site event on 11-12 June

The ideal candidate will have an extensive experience in facilitating conversations and curating engaging and inclusive programmes aimed at building meaningful connections and trust between civil society leaders working on social justice in Europe.

Our annual community events are spaces where our grantees and funders can meet each other, learn, build trust and reflect on strategies and challenges in the short and medium to long term. It’s a place to celebrate achievements and gain new energy and draw inspiration, as well as identify needs within the ecosystem and take the first steps to meet them.

Here’s what we hope to achieve with this event:

• Energise the ecosystem and enjoy the time together
• Build a sense of community and facilitate trust-based connections, especially thinking about people who have joined recently
• Provide a space for community to hold conversations important to them, sharing strategies, leadership and learning (whether thematic, political, organisational etc)
• Centre communities who experience harms facilitated by technology and invite their expertise to imagine solutions towards fair technology
• Provide an opportunity for funders and grantees to gain insights into each other’s work and build a better understanding of the ecosystem we’re part of
• Provide meaningful face-to-face interactions and candid conversations between funders and grantees
• Reflect on and explore medium to long term infrastructure needs within the community to enable change and map the path towards it

We value diversity and especially encourage applications from people who consider themselves underrepresented in this sector.

The delivery of this consultancy is foreseen in February- June 2025, with remote collaboration leading up to the event, and mandatory presence in Brussels during the event on 11-12 June. We anticipate that the work will take 15 days between February – June, including the 2-day on-site event. Due to the size of the event, at least two facilitators will be needed to deliver the programme on 11-12 June. It will be the responsibility of the Lead facilitator to bring in a co-facilitator/-s. We strongly encourage that facilitators’ team come from diverse backgrounds.

For more information about the community event and how to apply, consult the Terms of Reference. 

We’re welcoming proposals until 28 January 23:59 CET. Please send them to info@europeanaifund.org