ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Knowledge Management Advisor will work with USAID/East Africa and the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA) secretariat to improve the effective and efficient use of knowledge sharing among countries they serve. This position will:
- Provide direction and strategic planning to the project (with respect to program design, implementation, and evaluation)
- Work with the USAID/East Africa on regional and country-level KM strategies
- Design/lead KM capacity building strategies within relevant organizations
- Foster professional networks that lead to improved regional collaboration on KM initiatives.
- Revamp ECSA website to incorporate innovative data visualization, and provide synthesized and contextualized information;
- Strengthen systems for collecting, cataloguing and sharing information
- Strengthen capacity within the ECSA Secretariat to facilitate and improve virtual forums.
REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Masters degree in public health, health communication or related field
- Minimum 7 years’ experience developing and implementing health, knowledge management programs.
- Experience with knowledge management, knowledge sharing, and health communication models and approaches; strategic program development and implementation; monitoring and evaluation; and capacity building
- Experience working directly with public and private sector stakeholders, development partners, civil society and NGOs on knowledge management
- Experience in multi-stakeholder facilitation and collaboration, including government, civil society, implementing partners, and donors;
- Familiarity or experience with health knowledge and information dissemination through technology platforms and virtual models
- Excellent oral communication and writing English skills
Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and CV no later than April 30, 2014 by email to attention of Director of Field Programs – K4Health Project at k4health@jhuccpug.org. (Only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted)
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