PROJECT SUMMARY
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is a global nutrition initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth of mothers and children. From 2009–2014, A&T demonstrated that rapid improvements in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) are possible in settings as diverse as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Viet Nam. In 2014, A&T began working in Burkina Faso, India, Nigeria, and throughout the Southeast Asia region, expanding its scope to include maternal and adolescent nutrition, and using agriculture and social protection programs as delivery mechanisms for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN). Currently, A&T is leveraging its robust network and knowledge base to strengthen systems and build capacity in these and other countries across Africa and Asia, and disseminate innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide. The Alive & Thrive initiative, managed by FHI 360, is currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Irish Aid, the Tanoto Foundation, and UNICEF.
Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is a five-year investment funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to strengthen the institutional and human capacities required to achieve the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE) ambitions for nutrition. Since 2009, A&T is working in Ethiopia within the context of the National Nutrition Program (NNP) and the National Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Strategy (NNSAS) to promote maternal, adolescent, infant and young child nutrition (MAIYCN) across multiple sectors at the federal, regional, woreda, and community levels. The A&T Ethiopia 3.0 investment will build upon successes and lessons learned from previous IYCF efforts to significantly improve MAIYCN practices. In this new grant, A&T will provide greater analytical, technical, and systems-building support to bolster the capacity of federal and regional authorities to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate quality MAIYCN services.
A&T Ethiopia 3.0 will work in partnership with the GOE and others to achieve the following three outcomes: 1) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional health bureaus to support woredas in planning, budgeting, implementing and using data to achieve MAIYCN targets in the NNP II; 2) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional agriculture bureaus to improve women’s and children’s dietary diversity, and access to safe, affordable and nutritious foods; and 3) Knowledge and learning generated and tools and lessons learned disseminated in priority technical areas for improved MAIYCN at scale.
Alive & Thrive is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the governments of Canada and Ireland. The initiative is managed by FHI 360.
POSITION SUMMARY
Under the direct supervision of the TBD, the Knowledge Management and Learning Specialist (KMLS) will be responsible for developing a systematic plan and ensuring technically sound and visually appealing, high impact documentation to motivate other stakeholders to adopt evidence-based maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) as well as nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions. The KMLS will work closely with the team to compile key, high-value information and turn them into high quality products, ensure they reach key stakeholders and obtain feedback from recipients to continuously improve quality of our knowledge products. The KMLS will also involve in writing and editing the documents text, supporting other team members to write and to obtain visual materials and tools, design products for clear messaging about MIYCN and NSA topics related to A&T’s work, and an effective way to reach and increase the uptake of A&T’s knowledge products. As a Knowledge Partner, Alive & Thrive is expected to maintain high standards in content and design of knowledge products related to our work.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Summary of key functions: The Knowledge Management and Learning Specialist will work closely with the A&T Ethiopia senior technical team and regional coordinators in collaboration with headquarter (HQ) communications team. S/he will focus on achievement of the following key results:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
TECHNICAL SUPPORT, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION & LEARNING
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT
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