KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING ADVISOR At CARE USA

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

The Knowledge and Learning Advisor will work in collaboration with other members of the Education Team, PSI, CI, and key stakeholders in the execution of several crucial functions. Specifically, this position will lead the generation, production and dissemination of communication and other documentation that highlights innovations, lessons and challenges, promising practices and impact with both internal and external audiences, for the purposes of learning, informing program practice, increased visibility of the Education Team’s activities and priority areas, resource mobilization, leveraging partnerships and policy action.

The KLA will provide technical assistance for knowledge management and program design, ensuring that quality knowledge products are developed based on the evidence generated by projects, as well as fed back into best practices across CI. S/he will guide the unit in knowledge generation, production and communications. This includes driving the implementation of a learning agenda in consultation with the team and other stakeholders (within and outside PSI), develop knowledge products feeding into the learning agenda, develop a strategy for knowledge management and learning, exploring learning platforms and supporting the facilitation of knowledge sharing through communities of practice, workshops and trainings.

The KLA will also provide technical assistance for knowledge management, program design and promote innovation for learning, visibility and impact. This position will represent the Education team in external and internal knowledge generation and learning forums and support the collaborative efforts that drive linkages and partnerships with other key units, divisions, country offices and CI members at all levels.

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge generation, production and communications
• Coordinate and implement a coherent knowledge management strategy for the education team
• Technical assistance for knowledge management and program design
• Education Team membership
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, development or related field
• 2-4 years of professional experience related to development programming
• Experience in coordinating and/or managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working in teams
• Excellent verbal and written English skills, particularly presentation skills for coordinating and facilitating workshops and trainings
• Excellent communication skills including interpersonal, intercultural, negotiation and conflict resolution
• Excellent leadership, relationship management, and teamwork skills
• Demonstrated ability to operationalize strategies
• Exceptional planning, organizing, and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and with a virtual team
• Demonstrated capacity to utilize and support others in utilizing a range of learning tools and approaches, both virtual and in-person
• Experience in developing and implementing communication and dissemination strategies and publications
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite