Knowledge Management and Capability Advisor

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our over 37,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.

Here’s where you come in:

As Knowledge Management and Capability Advisor, you will optimize Health and Nutrition capability and knowledge management among World Vision (WV) entities, enabling staff to learn, grow, and deliver quality programming that impacts the most vulnerable children.

You will develop and implement capability enhancement systems (including guidelines, processes, competencies, learning assets and learning pathways) and support teams to plan and implement comprehensive capability strengthening interventions.

You will manage knowledge and the community of practice, as well as a robust external reference group, for the health and nutrition sector. You will curate, archive and disseminate technical literature and programme information for the COP and will also manage and provide expert advice to the sector Communities of Practice and other learning networks regarding collecting and sharing lessons learned, increasing staff capacity, subject matter expert identification, and planning integrated/blended learning opportunities for community members. In conjunction with the Global Knowledge Management team, you will establish knowledge management systems and processes to ensure cross Partnership learning and development and support world-class implementation of sector interventions.

You will also be responsible for coordinating strategic internal and external communications to share evidence of WV’s impact with key stakeholders, liaising with communications teams to share evidence of WV’s impact and to build WV’s reputation as a global leader in the industry.

Requirements include:

• Master’s Degree in sector or other related fields.
• Minimum 5 years’ knowledge management or related experience.
• Knowledge Management training/certification and/or experience.
• Adult learning pedagogy and methodologies.
• Experience in dealing with faith-related issues in development.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time.

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 07 JULY 2020. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.

Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.