Deadline: 02 February, 2024
Location: Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking to fill the position of Knowledge Management Lead.
GAIN aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people, especially those who are most vulnerable to shocks.
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic leadership and overarching management of FORK’s knowledge management objective, in collaboration with FORK’s Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party
- Working with global and country teams to assess knowledge management and mobilisation needs of the programme and implement activities to increase the sharing and uptake of knowledge, learning and tools to support local food processing of safe, nutritious foods
- Advising and collaborating with project staff to identify key stakeholders in implementing countries, assessing challenges and building capacity to enable and empower them to implement evidence-based interventions to improve the processing of safe, nutritious foods
- Developing strategic partnerships and initiating connections between local and global research institutes, businesses, and other key stakeholders to increase the knowledge exchange around best food processing practices and approaches
- Assessing, consolidating and supporting the use of the latest evidence on food safety and food processing interventions to project team and external partners
- Influencing and promoting mechanisms to increase the use of evidence for action in the public-private space for the processing of safe, nutritious foods across disciplines and countries
- Developing and reviewing case studies, policy and advocacy briefs, blogs, and/or other documents for dissemination on a variety of media platforms, working closely with others on the FORK team and GAIN’s communication department
- Overseeing the organisation and planning of events and webinars to share project knowledge and learnings, working with USAID dissemination and learning platforms and other forums, and engaging a diverse set of partners and a wide audience
- Providing overall leadership to the knowledge management portfolio and line managing direct reports including supporting work plan development and performance management to ensure team synergy and high-quality technical project delivery in time and budget
Requirement
- Master’s Degree in communications, international development, marketing, public relations, journalism, or related field
- Have experience working on USAID-funded projects, preferably on a Feed the Future or public health project, in a knowledge management capacity
- Must have an understanding of the opportunities and challenges working in food systems in LMICs, particularly in the enabling environment
- Possess strong communication skills and fluent in written and verbal English
- Fluency in a second language (i.e. French, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Bangla, etc.) is desirable
- Experience with and proficiency in using various types of presentation and graphic design software such as PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PremierPro, Acrobat, Adobe Spark
- Expertise in research translation, preparation and dissemination of documents/presentations for a diverse range policy or other non-technical audience essential
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