Danya International
 
Vacancy: Learning and Knowledge Management Manager

Report To:
 Africa Regional M&E Advisor
 
Location: Nairobi, Kenya 

Summary Scope of Work: An important part of the project is a learning agenda for the project to ensure that the project continues to build on and reassess its evidence base, effectiveness and to learn from other projects in the region and beyond. 

This position will lead the development and implementation of the learning agenda and contribute to the knowledge management activities of the project.   
Responsibilities:

Develop and adapt tools to enhance documentation of best practices and project learning – Identify and adapt, if necessary, existing tools that are being used for best practice project documentation and learning.  Project staff will then be trained on these tools; mentored on their completion and finalized documents stored in an easily accessible digital location.

Develop learning and knowledge management agenda for the project staff to promote a learning culture – Building on USAID’s Collaboration, Learning and Adapting framework, develop a specific learning agenda.  This agenda will promote an internal culture of learning and of sharing with other stakeholders within EAC and beyond.   

Support data quality improvement process for project M&E data - Work with the M&E team to develop a routine data quality assessment program.  This program will proactively identify data quality gaps in collected and reported data and develop capacity building activities to address these gaps when they are found.   

Design and support project evaluations that respond to Learning Agenda key evaluation questions - Work with the project M&E, Communication and ICT teams to implement key evaluation questions in the Learning Agenda.  These evaluations will address both outcome and impact level questions.  

Support effectiveness and outcome assessments for Communication other project activities - Work with the Communication team to implement its regular communication effectiveness and outcome assessments.  This position will specifically support the design of the methodology, field data collection and writing of the final reports.   

Lead in refinement of data and repackaging of project information - Work with the project communications team to further develop and refine project data and information for wider distribution.
 

Write complex documents including research designs and protocols, case studies and journal publications and actively participate in and contribute to the knowledge hub
 
Work collaboratively with other project team members to ensure that necessary program planning, development, resource availability and management activities function effectively and efficiently
 
Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team internally and with other country, regional and headquarters-based staff
 
Contribute to timely, accurate and appropriate reporting of program activities and results to the donor, including progress reports and annual reports

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Minimum Bachelor's degree and 6+ years relevant experience
  • Proven experience in Research, M&E with bias towards knowledge management and documentation
  • Working knowledge of BCC
  • Experience in identifying and incorporating or adapting best and promising practices
  • Accustomed to working as a member of a team, building capacity, delegating work and developing communities of learning
  • Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, writing, and oral presentation skills
  • Possession of creative and strategic thinking skills and examples of applying these successfully
  • Effective communicator, with outstanding oral and written communication skills in English
  • Participatory and collaborative working approach
  • Passionate, trustworthy, dependable and decisive manager who communicates effectively and consistently works efficiently to high standards
How to Apply
 
Interested applicants please email CV together with a covering letter which explains how you meet the criteria in this job description to: recruitmentafrica@danya.com

Important: Please entitle your email subject line with: Your name, position title and save letter together with CV in one attached file.

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