Job Description

OverviewThe Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) project is a multi-year global project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) working with countries to achieve a shared vision of attaining and maintaining epidemic control, with stronger local partners capable of managing and achieving results through sustainable, self-reliant, and resilient health systems. RISE South Africa is hiring several positions to fulfill the project mandate. The Knowledge Management Advisor role is a Jhpiego position funded for one year with the possibility of extension. Under the direction of the Technical Director for a USAID-funded COVID-19 and Global Health Security project in South Africa.Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an overarching KM plan, annual KM workplans, and documentation and dissemination plans.
• Support the ongoing gathering of knowledge and learning developed by the program, including lessons learned, best practices, challenges, how-to information, and information on reach and impact.
• Identify key audiences for different types of technical information, including internal and external audiences, and target knowledge-sharing efforts to promote knowledge uptake and application.
• Support Jhpiegos knowledge-sharing efforts by organizing and uploading resources to OneJhpiego, sending relevant resources to headquarters (HQ) for sharing among global staff, and developing systems for in-country knowledge-sharing practices.
• Support the documentation, packaging, storing, and sharing of information in formats tailored to specific audiences, including briefs, case studies, journal articles, online posts, success stories, presentations, and videos.
• Support dissemination of information through channels that will ensure effective audience reach.
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing meetings; teleconferences; learning visits between sites, districts, regions, or countries; and other knowledge-sharing mechanisms to ensure learning among government staff, implementing partners, donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), communities, and other stakeholders.
• Build capacity among Jhpiego staff for sharing knowledge, leading knowledge-sharing activities, documenting and disseminating key knowledge to relevant audiences, and other KM practices.
• Coordinate with other Jhpiego communications, technical, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff to ensure coordination of knowledge-sharing, communications, documentation, and dissemination efforts.
• Coordinate with KM staff at HQ, who can support the implementation of country-level activities and efforts to share knowledge with global audiences.

Teamwork:

• Participates fully as a member of the team; supports a positive work environment that promotes quality service to the organization and ensures timely communication of issues/points of interest.
• Supports the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in assigned functional area and participates in knowledge transfer within the team.
• Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross-training within own team.
• Keeps others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and all relevant / useful information related to day-to-day activities.
• Stays knowledgeable of practices and procedures and keeps abreast of emerging trends for own functional area.
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with organizational mission, goals and objectives and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, Social Sciences, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation or related fields.
• Minimum 8c years of progressive experience designing, and implementing KM or learning strategies and actions for a global health and development organization.
• Experience providing technical support to advance KM in multiple components of the KM cycle: knowledge capture, curation, synthesis, dissemination, storage, and use.
• Demonstrated competence in concepts and issues in KM processes and organizational learning approaches.
• Experience providing KM and learning technical support across multiple implementation levels (project, program, department, organization).
• Experience supporting KM and learning systems to improve access to, use, and re-use of knowledge assets.
• Experience collaborating with national, regional, and global stakeholders in learning and KM-related activities including knowledge exchange, knowledge stewardship, reflection and adaptation, and knowledge translation and use.
• Experience supporting capacity building approaches and measurement best practices to advance KM and continuous learning.
• Experience applying effective KM and learning practices to global public health challenges and priorities.
• Experience applying digital tools and technologies to in-person and/or virtual meetings, events, convenings, etc.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational and decision-making skills

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