Innovation Accelerator - Knowledge Management Consultant

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency fighting hunger. WFP reaches more than 80 million people every day - delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with smallholder farmers, communities and governments to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The WFP Innovation Accelerator has been named one of the top 10 innovative companies 2017 by FastCompany for operating a real startup accelerator to disrupt global hunger at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). It identifies, supports and scales high potential solutions to hunger worldwide - both WFP innovators and external start-ups with $50-100K cash, hands-on support by our team and access to WFP's global operations in developing countries in a 3-6 month sprint programme. The most promising innovations are supported in scaling further. More information here: http://innovation.wfp.org and read about our projects: https://innovation.wfp.org/projects .

 
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Consultant, reporting to the Head of Business Development, is expected to:

1. Support knowledge management content creation, curation and sharing of knowledge of the Innovation Accelerator activities:

• Collate and analyse existing formal and informal information products and streams of content within the WFP Innovation Accelerator and its projects;
• Analyse and organize the knowledge management inputs to create the structure and outline of the Accelerator knowledge management roadmap;
• Create information repositories, as applicable, to include best practices and lessons learned related to the set-up and implementation of innovation activities;
• Establish and ensure regular updating of a repository of knowledge products (both WFP’s and external partners’) and coordinate information gathering;
• Identify knowledge management bottlenecks and create processes to resolve these and further streamline knowledge sharing;
• Define priority audiences for knowledge sharing;
• Develop and implement innovative activities to identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across the innovation eco-system;
• Develop the innovation knowledge management tool kit and collection of template documents for process-standardization;
• Define and prioritise communication channels and platforms for knowledge sharing
• Design digital assets such as social media posts, blogs, graphics, audio podcasts, video clips with the support of Accelerator Communications team;
• Engage the WFP Innovation Champion community across WFP global offices, NGOs, implementing partners and local innovation ecosystems to leverage best practice, data collation and information dissemination;
• Assist with project knowledge sharing requirements and information management between the Accelerator, project leads and internal and external stakeholders.

2. Support the Innovation Accelerator needs as required:

• Support core processes of the Accelerator (e.g. innovation challenge; bootcamps; sprint programme; thought leadership; scale-up enablement) as required;
• Prepare applicable outputs including talking points, briefings, PowerPoint presentations and reports for management, inter-agency opportunities, donor related activities and innovation eco-system;
• Assist the Head of Innovation Accelerator, as well as Director of Innovation and Knowledge Management with other activities as required;
• Execute any other task required to support the activities of the Innovation Accelerator.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Ensure that all work and materials developed during the contract are well documented and available to the WFP Innovation Accelerator team.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Due to the large number of applicants, WFP will only revert back to applicants who have been shortlisted for interviews for the role.

Only applications fully completed on the WFP career website will be considered.

Terms and Conditions

WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Please visit the following websites for detailed information on working with WFP.

http://www.wfp.org Click on: “Our work” and “Countries” to learn more about WFP’s operations.

Deadline for applications: 29 December 2019

Ref.: VA No. 108963

Qualified female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.