Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deadline: 3 September 2024
Job Description
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
Are you interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?
If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you!!! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
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WHY JOIN WFP?
- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
BACKGROUND:
Assisting 152 million people in around 120 countries and territories in 2023 alone, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. With its logistical and supply chain expertise, WFP delivers food and other assistance to those in most need and on behalf of other humanitarian actors. WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations.
In Ethiopia, WFP is working with the Government and other humanitarian partners to respond to immediate emergency and humanitarian needs of over 15.8 food insecure people in only 2024, while strengthening the resilience towards a prosperous country. WFP’s Country Strategic Plan 2020-2025 is stemmed on the commitment to strengthen the Government of Ethiopia’s capacity as first responder.
Ethiopia CO seeks to fill the position of Programme Associate: Knowledge Management based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia who will work under the general supervision and guidance of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer: Planning, Reporting and Data management and subquently Head of Research, Assessment and Monitoring. Monitoring Associate (Knowledge management) will lead and coordinate the identification knowledge and learning gaps, ensure information and knowledge is documented, archived and easily retrieval; facilitate the utilization of learnings, and replication of best/tested models; coordination of cross-learnings and leading the design and implementation of learning or research agendas for country strategic plan, project and other related programmes; and supporting with other monitoring and evaluation tasks such as issue management and risk-management.
JOB PURPOSE
To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs and support in fostering a learning culture and organization where knowledge is captured, documented and retained, used for organizational learning and translated for decision-making.
CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION
JOB TITLE: Programme Associate: Knowledge Management
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Service Contract – Level 6
UNIT/DIVISION: Research, Assessments and Monitoring
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
DURATION: 6 months
REPORTING LINE: M&E Officer: Planning, Reporting, Compliance and Data Management
ONLY OPEN TO ETHIOPIAN NATIONALS
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and Coordinate Country-specific Knowledge management strategy: Lead the development of the country-specific knowledge management strategy, standard operating procedures, blueprints, and business processes aimed at inculcating learning and knowledge management culture within WFP. Strategies will be informed by periodic assessments and shall complement the Country Strategic Plan commitment on learning. Support the implementation of the strategy, and SOP, review and update the SOPs and Strategies regularly.
- Develop and coordinate learning and Research agendas: In collaboration with the cross-functional units, develop learning/research agendas for CSP, projects and programmes to close knowledge and information gaps to harness evidence-based programme design and coordination. Support the execution of the learning and research agendas through other subunits under the Research, Assessment and Monitoring unit.
- Knowledge content creation and management: Coordinate the content creation incl. documentation of lessons learnt, best practices, after-action reviews, tacit knowledge capturing (blue-chair sessions) among others for Units and field office, ensure content is documented and shareable through bulletins, magazines and other channels.
- Management of Knowledge & Document repositories (SharePoint and Hub): Working with Field Office, and other Unit knowledge management to ensure knowledge management system is update with relevant information by screening and uploading new content as per the available content management guidelines in line with advisories with the Headquarters and Regional Bureau.
- Champion knowledge dissemination and utilization: Identify relevant knowledge dissemination channels for units to share their content including but not limited to knowledge sharing café, cross-learning sessions, multimedia contents. Improve outlook and presentation of reports and ensure dissemination internally and externally incl. Government, donors and cooperating partners. Lead and oversee Ethiopia CO knowledge sharing efforts with the rest of WFP, including representing Ethiopia in WFP and UN-wide IM and KM initiatives and meetings.
- Foster learning culture across the organisation: Identify knowledge management support staff at the country office and field office level, provide advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and teams adopt and execute learnings in accordance to the strategies, agreed standards and timelines.
- Collaborative learning and knowledge sharing: Nurture relationships and support partnership-building with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to advance sharing of knowledge, evidence and information and to ensure efficient delivery of food assistance.
- Support other monitoring and evaluation tasks: Support the monitoring subunit under the research, assessment and monitoring unit to coordinate the issue escalation and management, risk-based monitoring framework (for determination of the countrywide monitoring coverage), capacity strengthening and provision of oversight on quality of monitoring and evaluation mandate at the grassroots level.
- Perform other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Education:
Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area, preferably Information Technology and Communication, Data Science, Business Management, Public Administration, etc.
Experience:
- Six years of relevant work experience in a humanitarian organization and operational implementation. Experience handling complaints, identifying issues, and passing issues on to third parties to resolve as part of a community feedback system. Data entry and management experience.
Competencies
- Information and Data management (Document management, using eLibraries and other online channels);
- results-based management principles and practices, WFP’s corporate accountability framework;
- Proven knowledge, abilities, and skills in the areas of Knowledge management, and reporting systems;
- Create/use digital media and data visualization platforms, particularly Tableau;
- Database management;
- strong stakeholder management and engagement and coordination.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Proficiency in Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Strong command of English in both written and spoken
- Graphics and Multimedia management (Creative and Critical thinking)
- Excellent reporting, document
- Behavioral competencies such as Leadership, Action Management, Client Orientation, Cognitive Capacity, Innovation, Partnering and Teamwork.
Language:
- Fluency in both oral and written communication in English language,
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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process is inclusively crafted to welcome candidates of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity and ensuring a respectful environment for all. We aim for an accessible and fair recruitment journey. Should you need any reasonable accommodations or have accessibility concerns, please reach out to us confidentially at global.inclusion@wfp.org. Our DEI team is here to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.
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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
- We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
- Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
- Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
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- Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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