Serious Game and Policy Game Specialist
Location
Worldwide
Posted
11 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Serious Game and Policy Game Specialist
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Role Description The Office of Innovation (OIN) is an important instrument within FAO to provide strategic direction and help drive and coordinate innovation across the work of the Organization. The purpose of this call is to build a roster of Serious Game and Policy Game Specialist to support FAO’s work at global, regional and country levels. Assignments may be home‑based with travel as required. Technical Focus - Provision of innovation methodologies, tools and strategic support related to: - Design, development, and facilitation of serious games and policy simulation games in both physical (including gamebooks) and virtual/digital formats. - Participatory and experiential methodologies, systems thinking, and co-creation tools applied to complex agrifood systems and policy environments. - Utilization of virtual gaming platforms and digital collaboration tools to enable remote stakeholder engagement and immersive policy dialogue. - Strengthening countries’ capacities to integrate game-based learning and simulation into programmes, policies, and technical assistance activities. Tasks and Responsibilities - Lead or participate in multidisciplinary teams applying game-based innovation methodologies to support FAO programmes, strategies, and country activities. - Design and develop or contribute to original serious games and policy simulations, including game mechanics, narrative structures, and pedagogical frameworks tailored to agrifood system challenges. - Adapt and facilitate games for virtual environments, utilizing digital platforms (e.g., Tabletopia, Miro, Tabletop Simulator, or custom web-based tools) to enable global participation. - Facilitate high-level policy simulation exercises and participatory workshops for diverse stakeholders, including government officials, private sector partners, and local communities. - Lead or contribute to "debriefing" sessions to bridge game experiences with real-world policy outcomes, ensuring that systemic insights are captured and translated into actionable results. - Develop or contribute to training materials and deliver capacity development activities on game-based facilitation for FAO staff and national partners. - Prepare analytical reports, methodological guidelines, and documentation on game-based interventions aligned with FAO standards. - Contribute to collaboration with government counterparts, research institutions, and development organizations to advance the use of gaming in policymaking. - Perform other related duties as required. Qualifications - For Consultants: Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in game design, instructional design, social sciences, public policy, international development, or another relevant field. Consultants with a bachelor's degree need two additional years of relevant professional experience. - For PSAs: University degree (or technical degree/certificate) from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in game design, instructional design, social sciences, public policy, international development, or another relevant field. - At least 1 year for category C and 5 years for category B of relevant experience in designing and facilitating serious games, policy simulations, or experiential learning processes (experience in both physical and virtual formats is required). - Full proficiency/Working knowledge of English (Level C). FAO Core Competencies - Results Focus - Teamwork - Communication - Building Effective Relationships - Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement Technical/Functional Skills - Extent and relevance of experience in game mechanics design and the application of gaming to complex policy or technical topics. - Demonstrated ability to design and facilitate participatory processes and manage group dynamics in both face-to-face and virtual settings. - Proficiency in using digital collaboration and virtual gaming tools (e.g., Miro, MURAL, virtual tabletop software, or interactive web platforms). - Experience in translating complex data or systems (such as agrifood systems or climate models) into intuitive and engaging game-based formats. - Experience working with government institutions, civil society, academia and/or international organizations. - Relevance of experience in different geographical and cultural contexts. Selection Criteria - Candidates will be assessed on their demonstrated experience in their role of designer and/or facilitator, specifically focusing on serious games that address policy challenges. - Proven capacity to design and deliver innovation-focused learning via virtual platforms will be a key consideration. - Candidates will also be requested to submit a portfolio of relevant previous work (e.g., game prototypes, rulebooks, session reports, gamebooks, or digital game links) demonstrating the quality and range of their gaming practice.
Related Guides
Related Job Pages
More Game Engineer Jobs
Role Description You will lead the engineering team behind GameFabric's Multiplayer Servers platform - the core product that game studios from indie to AAA rely on to orchestrate, scale, and operate their multiplayer game server fleets in production. This is a leadership role with a strong technical foundation. You own your team's delivery, drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and translate product priorities into a plan the team can execute against with confidence. GameFabric is a developer-first multiplayer server orchestration platform built on Agones, Kubernetes, and a hybrid bare-metal-plus-cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud and BYOC). The platform is API-first with a dedicated Terraform provider, and is used in production by game studios shipping titles at scale. You will report directly to the Head of B2B, who owns GameFabric end-to-end - including its technical direction - and reports to the CTO. This means a short path between business goals, product priorities, and engineering execution, and a leadership counterpart who is deeply technical and engages directly on architecture and trade-offs. You will lead a team of five experienced engineers (three backend, two frontend) and collaborate closely with peer teams across SRE, SteelShield, Customer Success, and Product. Your mission - Lead and develop a team of experienced engineers - running healthy manager fundamentals (1:1 cadence, feedback, growth conversations) and creating an environment of clear expectations and accountability. - Own delivery for your team end-to-end: convert priorities into an executable plan, manage scope and dependencies, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable. - Translate OKRs and business priorities into a clear technical plan for your team. - Drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and act as a credible technical counterpart in design discussions. - Ensure technical feasibility, dependencies, and scope are validated before sprint commitment. - Drive alignment with Product, SRE, SteelShield, and Customer Success - proactively identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies before they block delivery. - Establish and uphold engineering standards: definition of ready, release readiness, code review. - Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and across teams. Qualifications - Experience leading engineering teams in a complex technical environment. - Solid working knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes-based environments, container orchestration). - Track record of converting product input into structured engineering work. - Demonstrated ability to own delivery outcomes end-to-end. - Experience translating priorities and objectives into team plans and managing them through to delivery. - Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. Nice to have - Experience with Go (our primary backend language). - Background in multiplayer, real-time, or other latency-sensitive systems. - Experience working closely with SRE or platform teams. - Experience with API-first products and developer tooling. Benefits - Gaming at Heart: We provide free Nitrado Game Servers for gamers and a welcoming community for anyone who wants to feel at home. - Flexible working hours: Tailor your work hours to your personal needs for a better work-life balance. - Remote work: Our agile teams collaborate seamlessly from their preferred location. - Work from Abroad: Extend your workspace beyond national borders with our support for remote work from abroad. - Mental Health: We support your mental well-being with our annual Mental Health Day. - Physical Health: Our office infrastructure provides state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design. - Professional Development: Utilize training opportunities to develop and stay current with your skills. - Company Pension Plan: We support your financial security for the future with an attractive contribution. - Working Environment: You'll experience a respectful and friendly workplace culture. - Vacation and Paid Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of vacation and additional paid leave for special occasions. - International Collaboration: We successfully overcome time zones and language barriers. - Social Activities: Strengthen your commitment and team cohesion through team-building events. - Long-Term Stability: With over two decades of experience, we are a reliable employer. - Get together: Work hard, play hard - We come together twice a year for our company celebrations. - Modern Workspaces: Our office infrastructure offers state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design. - Corporate Culture and Values: You become part of a positive corporate culture that embraces values such as diversity and inclusion.
Role Description Join the LawVu team that is on a mission to revolutionise legal work. In this role, you’ll help accelerate legal processes, drive creativity, and bring fresh solutions to an industry ready for change. This is a chance to work on the cutting edge of legal tech, making a real impact on the future of legal ops and with an awesome team of humans! - Be awesome - Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to drive innovation and development of product features - Write clean, maintainable code following established standards and conventions - Implement features and resolve bugs with increasing independence - Contribute to unit testing and automated testing practices - Understand software architecture patterns and their application in SaaS environments - Collaborate with Product Managers to understand feature requirements and business priorities - Partner with UX Designers to ensure technical feasibility of design solutions - Write code that is readable, maintainable, and properly tested - Accept and implement feedback from code reviews to improve technical skills - Stay current with relevant technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices - Set personal development goals that align with career progression requirements - Learn multi-tenant architecture principles and their implementation in production systems - Understand subscription business model technical requirements and implications - Develop awareness of global scalability, performance, and compliance considerations Qualifications - Product Engineering mindset: - Self-Starter: Take initiative and drive forward with minimal supervision. - Proactive: Anticipate challenges and address them before they become problems. - Problem Solver: Tackle complex issues with creativity and determination. - Resilient: Bounce back from setbacks and keep pushing forward. - Customer-Centric: Always keep the end-user in mind and strive to meet their needs. - Design-First: Prioritise design and usability in every feature you develop. - Value-Driven: Focus on delivering features that provide real value to our users. - Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Software Engineering experience with the following expertise: - 2+ years of experience in full-stack software development. - Strong exposure in C# .NET Framework / .NET Core, Angular, and REST API first design and development. - Experience building reliable solutions consuming 3rd party APIs. - Solid understanding of Azure PaaS components. - Regular experience with GitHub. - QA familiarity and contribution. - Comfortable working in an Agile environment. - Comfortable with customer engagement. Location Remote Reports to Director of Engineering
• Direct and continuously refine an enterprise-wide member engagement and community-building strategy that advances OCHIN’s mission, business objectives, and member satisfaction goals. • In partnership with key cross-functional OCHIN leaders, establish a quarterly editorial roadmap for peer learning, knowledge exchange and user engagement designed to scale across the network and drive greater synergy across key member audiences, segments and communities. • Establish clear success metrics and regularly analyze engagement, adoption, and sentiment data to optimize community relevance, effectiveness, and business impact. • Partner closely with internal stakeholders to design, direct and facilitate programming—meetings, forums, campaigns, and events—that foster peer learning, shared problem-solving, best-practice dissemination and deeper community ties. • Create and steward high-value member conversations that translate OCHIN’s solutions, roadmap, and capabilities into clear, role-relevant outcomes for executive, clinical, and operational audiences. • Equip internal, member-facing teams with practical frameworks and tools that reflect OCHIN’s strategic priorities and elevate communications from informational to consultative and value-driven. • Serve as a co-executive leader for OCHIN’s Learning Forum, with direct responsibility for shaping the content strategy, experience design, and member outcomes of the program and annual event. • Oversee and actively curate the evolution of OCHIN’s online member portal and other member engagement platforms to ensure content, discussions, and resources remain timely, relevant, and aligned with community goals. • Direct inbound member engagement and marketing initiatives that respond to unmet member needs, support strategic priorities, and accelerate solution adoption. • Establish metrics and feedback mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of member communities and channels and their influence on member satisfaction, retention and trust. • Lead, mentor, and coach a high-performing team responsible for member engagement, inbound marketing, and member portal management, modeling curiosity, accountability, and member-centric thinking. • Foster deep collaboration with strategy, account management, communications, governance, operations, clinical informatics, and member success teams to align engagement efforts with enterprise priorities. • Ensure consistent integration across departments so members experience OCHIN as a coordinated, trusted partner.
Junior Game Developer
Plug and Play Tech CenterDriving the future forward with corporations, governments, startups, investors, and universities.
• Joining a small, supportive team that creates captivating casino games • Involved in complex debugging in medium-large scale projects • Translating technical concepts into plain, human-readable language • Designing and building thoughtful UX • Improving performance and optimising code


