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CLA/Knowledge Management Advisor, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service

CLA/Knowledge Management Advisor, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service, Mozambique
Company Profile:
Management Systems International (MSI) is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C., metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey's international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Proposal Summary:
The Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service (MMEMS) project will work with Mission staff and its affiliated implementing partners to improve the mission’s performance planning monitoring and reporting systems, thereby making USAID/Mozambique a more effective and adaptive development organization. MMEMS will focus its effort on systems which will enable the Mission to fulfill its performance monitoring, evaluation, reporting and dissemination requirements, and improve the overall planning, design and management of its development activities. It will do this by facilitating improved activity management and learning capacity, improved monitoring and performance data and high quality and efficient evaluation services.
Position Summary:
The Knowledge Management Advisor (KMA) will assist the Mission in assembling, synthesizing and communicating information and analysis to Mission staff, IPs, and other Mozambican development partners. S/he will also take a lead role in interfacing with implementing partners to identify key learning questions and challenges, and develop mechanisms for improving collaboration and knowledge sharing between key stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop resources to create, capture, organize, translate, share, and apply knowledge to improve USAID/Mozambique’s programs.
  • Build capacity for adapting to new learning and changes in context through effective approaches.
  • Coordinate knowledge capturing, sharing and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring new innovations to the Mission’s programmatic work in country.
  • Coordinate, plan, and implement institutional learning activities relevant to the achievement of USAID/Mozambique’s CDCS goals and objectives, such as special studies, pauses and reflection activities, after action reviews, briefings, and communities of practices, learning events and/or seminars.
  • Assist the Mission’s CLA Coordinator in strengthening systems and processes that promote and facilitate efficient learning and knowledge-sharing.
  • Track best practices in knowledge management and adult learning to incorporate new or improved learning tools and approaches into the overall Mission’s CLA program.
  • As assigned, gather and disseminate knowledge and information on best practices for high priority, cross-cutting Mission activities, such as human and institutional capacity development, youth development/empowerment and opportunity, and gender equality.
  • In collaboration with the Chief of Party and other senior MMEMS staff, assume a leadership role in identifying critical knowledge gaps and needs related to key strategic risks and assumptions identified in the Mission’s CDCS, including political dynamics and commitment in relation to Mozambique’s development policies and goals.
  • Lead program planning analysis and coordinate/oversee research, planning, higher level contextual analysis, and other investigations prioritized in the Mission’s CLA Agenda. This would further entail assisting USAID staff with planning future programs and activities.
Qualifications:
  • Master’s in international development, statistics, adult education, organizational learning, or a related field.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible, professional work experience in institutional learning, research, analysis, knowledge management and communication.
  • A strong background in analysis and evaluation of development assistance programs and experience in the application of statistical methods is desirable.
  • Experience building organizational capacity in monitoring, evaluation, and strategic learning preferred.
  • Computer literacy and superior oral and written communication skills.
  • Spoken and written ability in both English and Portuguese is required.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.

To apply: Please visit our website, www.msiworldwide.com

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