No Experience Knowledge Management Officer GHC Internship Jobs – Spark MicroGrants
Job Title: Knowledge Management Officer
Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Spark MicroGrants
Duty Station: Gulu, Uganda
Eligible Citizenship: Ugandan
Salary: Monthly Stipend
Position Code: G12-Nat
About GHC:
Global Health Corps pairs intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require new thinking and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the tools to remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their ability to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We currently place fellows in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
About US:
Spark equips local governments, civil society organizations and NGOs with a tested approach and accompanying tools for activating villages to drive their own planning and development. Spark’s novel Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) enables remote villages to design and launch their own communal projects, from schools to farms. To date, over 200 communities across six countries have completed this process. At the heart of Spark’s approach are weekly meetings, in which women and men, young and old, sit together and plan for their community’s future. Each village democratically elects a leadership committee, defines communal goals, plans a project and establishes a village savings group. As a part of the process, villages receive a seed fund of up to 8,000 USD to make project ideas a reality. Through this approach, Spark enables institutions to put resources and power directly into the hands of those they serve.
Job Summary: The Knowledge Management Officer will be based in Gulu, Uganda and play an important role in expanding Spark’s knowledge management system for the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP). Working closely with the Manager of Knowledge Management and Facilitator Trainers across the Spark team, the fellow will build case studies and facilitate team conversations to harvest and apply knowledge from the field. Following the launch of a community of practice around the FCAP approach, the fellow will also engage with FCAP partners to support them in knowledge documentation and sharing across institutions. Finally, the fellow will work with liaisons across different departments in the Spark team to apply best practices in knowledge management, monitor how teams are using the knowledge management systems, and recommend improvements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and expand a library of case studies on FCAP best practices
- Monitor team use of knowledge management systems
- Facilitate team conversations on current research and learnings in the community driven development field
- Provide capacity building and training organization-wide on Knowledge Management
- Support ad hoc research (including desk research and literature reviews) and priority projects in coordination with the RELM department
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Global Health Corps Knowledge Management Officer career placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree*
- Strong writing and analytical skills, including experience drafting written narratives for various audiences*
- Strong research skills, including the ability to synthesize insights from a range of sources*
- Project management skills, including managing multiple priorities and timelines, and coordinating amongst distributed teams*
- Advanced Excel skills*
- Skills in quantitative or qualitative data analysis
- Experience in data visualization with a tool like Excel, Tableau, or Hive
- Past experience in a knowledge management role
- Familiarity with or interest in the East African context
- Experience or interest in organizational learning and systems development
- Strong accountability and attention to detail
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
NB: Items indicated with an asterisk (*) are required
Fellowship Stipend, Benefits, and Logistics:
In addition to the intensive leadership development and professional growth that the fellowship offers, the Global Health Corps fellowship includes the following benefits. GHC arranges several logistical details on fellows’ behalf with the expectation that fellows will take ownership of their overall experience. Read on below to learn more about how these items apply to specific placements:
- Monthly living stipend
- Award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year
- Housing
- Insurance
- Support in applying for visas and/or work permits, as necessary
- Travel costs covered to and from placement site, GHC training and retreats
- Professional development funds of up to $600
How to Apply:
All applicants who desire to be placed by the Global Health Corps in the aforementioned organization should express interest by clearly following the instructions at the web page below.
Deadline: 16th January, 2019 at 11:59pm EST
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