Knowledge Management Officer

United Nations Children's Fund

Cairo, Egypt

Experience: 0 to 3 Years

Skill Required: Monitoring and Evaluation

Your work will focus on ensuring that the right knowledge is available to the right people in a timely manner and in the right format, and on the systematic storage of relevant knowledge products for ease of access. The office will contribute to capacity strengthening in the use of technology for knowledge management and to measuring the use in the programme and project cycles. You will initiate and support the knowledge management initiatives and contribute to the implementation of the country, regional and global knowledge management agenda. You will work in collaboration with all programme and operation sections, and in particular with the staff responsible of planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

  • Support the generation, capture, dissemination and sharing of data and knowledge on the situation children.
  • Development, implementation, and monitoring and reporting KM plans.
  • Support KM planning, learning, storage, dissemination, and knowledge retention.
  • Support documentation, lesson learning in programme planning, implementation, and monitoring.
  • Serve as the Knowledge Management Country Office Focal Point for Regional and Global initiatives.
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 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have the below requirement:

Education:

  • A University Degree in economics, psychology, sociology, education, statistics, data analysis, or other social science field is required.

Experience:

  • A minimum of two years of professional experience in program/project monitoring and evaluation is required. 
  • Relevant experience in knowledge management, social development analysis and programming at the international and/or in a developing country and in a UN system agency or organization is an asset. 
  • Experience in developing knowledge products such as briefs, summary reports, etc is required.
  • Experience with partners such as government partners, NGOs, and private sector partners, etc is an asset.
  • Experience in interpreting numbers is an asset.
  • Experience in managing and reporting on databases is an asset.

Language Requirements:

  • Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/562930