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Company: CARE Malawi
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CARE provides equal employment opportunities and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for the positions advertised below
CARE International is a leading development organization dedicated to save lives, fight poverty and achieve social justice with a special emphasis on women and girls. CARE International is a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people. CARE International and partners contribute to the empowerment of the most marginalized and vulnerable rural women and girls to exercise their rights.
CARE seeks to recruit well qualified persons to fill the following vacant posts within COUNTRY OFFICE based in Lilongwe:
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & REPORTING COORDINATOR
Position Description
The Knowledge Management & Reporting Coordinator will coordinate the execution of best practices, learning and continuous improvement of service delivery from CARE Malawi awards that complement Government of Malawi interventions within MIP-1 of the MW63. The role will ensure program effectiveness, empower staff through knowledge sharing, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement. The Program Quality and Knowledge Management Coordinator will be responsible for maintaining high project standards while maximizing impact and program quality.
Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:
- Collaboratively implement a robust learning agenda/framework for continuous learning, collaborating, and adapting for CARE Malawi project teams, implementing partners and government counterparts.
- Design a leaming and adaptation strategy for CARE Malawi’s programs, including supporting the development of tools to operationalize the strategy.
- Ensure that formal donor reports produced by the project teams effectively demonstrate the impact. Review all formal reports for improvement in coherence, sense-making, integrity and factual statements before submission to CARE Member partner desk offices or donors.
- Coordinate knowledge capture, sharing, and strategic learning to encourage the speed and scale of innovation across CARE Malawi’s programming.
- Synthesize findings from evaluations, assessments, special studies, and other sources for use in CARE Malawi annual portfolio performance reviews, project and activity designs, communications, stakeholder coordination, and reporting.
- Promote forums to facilitate collaboration, learning and adaptation
- Support new initiatives design so that they are evidence based and use theories of change or results frameworks that integrate CARE’s global roadmap and places affected populations at the centre.
Required education and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Knowledge Management, Information Science, Information Management, Statistics, Social Sciences, or a related field.
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant field-based experience in coordinating or managing light to moderately complex projects required, preferably with an international NGO.
- A Minimum of 1 year of relevant KM experience in development context in Southern Africa.
- Familiarity with Project Life Cycle
- Ability to link content development and engagement strategies that facilitate timely, useful delivery of information through project learning platforms and activities
- Experience in project design and MEAL is desirable, especially data handling.
- Experience engaging with partner organizations.
- Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals required
Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and experience and possess the required competencies should send their application letters with detailed CVs through email to mwicarerecruit@care.org addressed to the attention of:
The Country Director
CARE Malawi
P/Bag A89
LILONGWE
Closing date for receipt of applications is September 27th, 2024. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
CARE has zero tolerance to sexual exploitation and abuse and has a Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Policy which outlines expected behaviors and responsibilities of all staff and CARE related personnel (consultants, vendors, partners, project participants, etc.). All potential candidates will be required to complete a Self-Declaration Form and those successful will be expected to sign up to the Code of Behavior contained in the PSEA Policy.