Knowledge Management and Communication Expert

The position: The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is recruiting a Knowledge Management and Communication Expert position who will be based in Addis Ababa and who will be a member of the LIVES Project in ILRI-Ethiopia.

General: ILRI works with partners worldwide to enhance the roles that livestock play in food security and poverty alleviation, principally in Africa and Asia. The outcomes of these research partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm animals alive and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity, find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the risk of livestock-related diseases.

A member of the CGIAR Consortium working for a food-secure future, ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in other countries in East, West and Southern Africa (Mali, Mozambique and Nigeria) and in South Asia (India and Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) and East Asia (China). http://www.ilri.org.
The Livestock and Irrigation Value-Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project is an initiative designed by ILRI, IWMI (the International Water Management Institute) and their Ethiopian partners to enhance income and gender equitable wealth creation for smallholders and other value chain actors through increased and sustained market off-take of high-value livestock and irrigated crop commodities. It will design and implement interventions to improve market orientation of semi-commercial farmers for enhanced competitiveness, sustainability and equity in value chains in four regions of Ethiopia.
Key Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the introduction of innovative knowledge management interventions at different project levels, including further development of Ethiopian Agricultural Portal and LIVES website;
• Contributes to knowledge management capacity development activities at National, regional and zonal levels;
• Be responsible for organizing and jointly implementing (with partner institutions) research on selected knowledge management interventions in consultation with the LIVES research coordinator;
• Be responsible for synthesizing knowledge management research and development results in different formats for communication to policy and decision makers, and other users;
• Be responsible for maintaining database of events and meetings attended by staff and ensuring details of the event are captured, recorded and reported accordingly;
• Assists staff in summarizing project value chain interventions using different formats;
• Be responsible for internal project communications and communications with key stakeholders using electronic newsletters and social media;
• Identifies/supervises consultants/casual staff in support of knowledge management interventions;
• Reports on knowledge management activities to partners and project management.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education:
• MSc in agriculture, knowledge management, extension, rural development, communications and related fields

Experience:
• A minimum of 5 years
• Experience in knowledge management/communications
• Experience in capacity development

Skills:
• Understanding of value chain concepts

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Grade: 3A

Minimum Base: Birr 24,376 (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and salary history of the selected candidate)

Terms of appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position, initial appointment is fixed term up to 31 December 2016 with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding. The ILRI remuneration package for nationally recruited staff in Ethiopia includes very competitive salary and benefits such as life and medical insurance, offshore pension plan, etc.
The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. Dining and sports facilities are located on site.

Applications: Applicants should provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to be included in the curriculum vitae. The position and reference number: REF: A/022/15 should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com on or before 23 June 2015.

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Suitably qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.