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Voices for Change (V4C) is a UK Aid funded, four year programme
running from October 2013 to December 2017. The goal of V4C
is to help transform social attitudes towards girls and women in
Nigeria by working on specific individual, social and
institutional changes.
V4C will do this by operating at
Federal level and in four States (Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Enugu).
V4C’s Vision is to be known and recognised for creating new ways
to change behaviour, contributing to a Nigeria where every girl,
boy, woman and man achieves their full potential. V4C’s Mission
is to inspire a generation of new voices to speak up and speak
out to empower young women to achieve their real potential. V4C
will achieve this by:
- Creating space and opportunities for girls to grow.
- Getting the support of boys and men.
- Removing formal and informal barriers, or
- Influencing behaviours and laws / behavioural and legal
change in Nigeria.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Knowledge Management Adviser
Location: Abuja
The Position
The purpose of the Knowledge Management Adviser’s role is to
lead and manage V4C’s knowledge management activities to
ensure:
- Continuous learning for program improvement.
- Effective dissemination to stakeholders to increase their
buy-in to and uptake of the V4C program.
- Packaging and producing a range of knowledge products
- Tacit and explicit knowledge and information is stored as a
program resource to inform future initiatives and activities.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to the V4C program in relation to
knowledge management, including:
- Translating the KM strategic agenda into operational plans
and work plans for delivery.
- Developing policy briefs and other KM products as required.
- Organising research dissemination events.
- Ensuring that all V4C reports and documents adhere to the
V4C quality assurance standards before uploading, storage and
dissemination
- Ensuring necessary and sufficient information is available
for submission to the Deputy Team Leader to compile the
quarterly and annual reports to DFID.
- Managing, monitoring and reporting on the Knowledge
Management budget.
- Implementing administrative and financial operations in
compliance with ethical standards and in line with GRM
operations and contract provisions.
- Producing progress reports and other reports on KM as
required.
- Working with software programmers to ensure the development
of a functional intranet which will serve as a repository for
all V4C resources, as well as V4C MIS.
- Ensuring the intranet is maintained and updated regularly
with relevant information and documents.
- Regularly updating and maintaining the V4C website (in
conjunction with output 2 lead) with relevant V4C information
as required and deemed appropriate.
Work with V4C partners, stakeholders and beneficiaries to
generate and record stories of how V4C initiatives have affected
their lives and / or work, including:
- Ensuring that Thematic Diaries (TD) are regularly updated
with information on on-going activities.
- Working with partners to ensure that learning activities
take place regularly.
- Designing and organising knowledge share fairs for V4C
staff, partners and stakeholders to interact and share and
learn lessons from each other.
- Promoting successful V4C supported interventions as part of
the replication / uptake agenda
- Packaging and marketing to stakeholders V4C results and
stories of change for uptake in other settings.
- Leading on documentation / analysis of the TD to synthesis
successful innovations. Ensuring learning activities (eg, After
Action Reviews, Lunch and Learn, and Critical Reflection
sessions) take place regularly.
- Working with V4C partners to ensure that information on
activities and initiatives are being captured on an ongoing
basis.
Build knowledge management capacity of implementing partners
and V4C team to enhance understanding and ability to capture
information and learning, including:
- Carrying out targeted training and coaching for the staff
of V4C and implementing partners in knowledge management tools,
resources and processes.
- Providing on-going support to Output Leads and thematic
adviser on identified knowledge management activities within
their outputs.
- Participating in knowledge management working groups under
the umbrella program and other DFID funded programs for
effective coordination and learning
Supervise and provide oversight to Knowledge Management
consultants, as required, including:
- Consulting, communicating and building productive
relationships to ensure quality, value for money and on time
delivery.
- Monitoring and reporting on progress and deliverables as
stated in TOR and contracts.
Manage the knowledge Management budget including:
- Responsible for developing annual, quarterly and monthly
budget forecasts
- Review budget expenditure against activities on a monthly
basis
- Working within strict GRM policies and procedures and UK /
Nigerian government regulations.
- Ensure clear quarterly budget reporting.
- Implementing administrative and financial operations in
compliance with ethical standards and in line with GRM
operations and contract provisions.
- Any other reasonable activities determined by the Team
Leader / Deputy Team Leader.
- Ensure expenditures are coded correctly on a monthly basis
- Ensure monthly variance falls within required 5%
- Demonstrating value for money in all expenditure.
- Demonstrating effectiveness of the campaigns.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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online
Application Deadline
4th May, 2015.