Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 15, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose:
The Knowledge Management Specialist will be responsible for a wide variety of activities related to identifying, managing, packaging, and disseminating key information to advance technical practice and provide practitioners with the tools they need to complete implementation of the post EVD recovery plan. Specifically, the KM Specialist will lead and support development of EVD IPC KM products, coordinate learning and harvest meetings events, conduct operational research, produce resources and guidance, and facilitate ongoing content development and engagement. The KM Specialist will support the project team to use traditional and digital learning approaches to develop and implement innovative, creative, and effective ways to strategically capture and share technical knowledge, leverage good practices, and improve the effectiveness of the post recovery workplan activities. The Knowledge Management specialist will have the following roles and responsibilities:

Roles and responsibilities:
• Design and implement effective IPC learning activities – in collaboration with other project team members, work with PFP lower-level providers to scope and implement appropriate and effective knowledge capture and sharing activities.
• Coordinate deliberate and systematic learning opportunities during project implementation, harvest and disseminate lessons monthly.
• Document and share learning – ensure requirements, lessons learned, and best practices for products, events, and other knowledge management activities are clear and documented during the 180-day post recovery period.
• Build capacity for generation of knowledge products by the different stakeholders supporting the EVD IPC program implementation.
• Work collaboratively with peers on the project team including the Management team, Technical Advisors, and Monitoring evaluation and learning team to ensure alignment, cohesion of KM products.
• Manage knowledge sharing events (IPC Harvest meetings) – in collaboration with the project team, scope and manage the successful execution of periodic knowledge sharing events such as peer learning sessions, meetings, workshops, and conferences.
• Coordinate IPC learning visits with field teams.
• Identify and share more creative, efficient, and effective ways to engage audiences and facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Ensure that quality work is delivered on time.
• Develop and refine weekly, monthly, and project close out reports.
• Any other tasks that may be assigned by the supervisor.

Required Experience & Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience or Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience (preferred) in knowledge management, organizational learning, international development or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 – 7 years of work experience in public health program implementation
• Understanding of knowledge management principles and capacity to deliver knowledge management and/or organizational learning activities.
• Capacity to deliver knowledge management in health programs and/or organizational learning programs.
• Demonstrated coordination, teamwork, planning and analytical skills to measure the outcomes of the project’s activities and support project supervision.
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis, presentation, and Publication.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and must be able to communicate and coordinate effectively with Government of Uganda officials, other donors, and partners.
• Proficiency in word processing and Microsoft office Substantive Knowledge Management Outputs or high-quality peer reviewed publications.
• Strong technical skills including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages including at least one of the following: SPSS, EPi-Info, Stata, MS Access
• Ability to link content development and engagement strategies that facilitate timely, useful delivery of information through project learning platforms and activities.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV including salary requirements/expectations by email to: Uganda.procurement@fhi360.org  not later than 5 days from the date of this advert. Please indicate the title of the position in the email subject line.



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