Project/Proposal Summary:
The anticipated USAID/Liberia CLA program will help to
achieve the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) goal of
“Strengthened Liberian Institutions Positioned to Drive Inclusive Economic
Growth and Poverty Reduction” by strengthening USAID/Liberia’s monitoring,
evaluation & learning capacities; improving USAID’s staff and
organizational practices and aptitudes for learning and adaptation, coordination
and collaboration within the Mission and with other key stakeholders; and,
strengthening the Government of Liberia’s own capacity to monitoring and
evaluate its own development programs falling under the 2012-2017 “Agenda for
Transformation.”
Position Summary:
The OLKM Advisor will work with the Chief of Party, MSI home
office Technical Director, the Mission M&E Advisor and the project’s CLA
Trainer to lead the third component of the project: advancing USAID/Liberia’s
learning agenda to guide program interventions.
This will be a full time position based in Monrovia, but
will involve travel throughout Liberia, with an emphasis on the geographic
focus counties identified in the Mission’s CDCS.
This position is open to Liberian nationals.
Responsibilities:
- Lead
consultations with implementing partners and other USAID stakeholders to
better understand the design, causal pathways and implementation
conditions underlying promising program results.
- Lead
the process of designing an organizational assessment of the Mission which
will result in recommendations to improve USAID/Liberia’s appreciation of
learning, adaptation and collaboration, leadership and management styles,
time and meeting management, and other practices related to achievement of
project components 2 and 3.
- Identify
national and regional individuals, firms, academic and research
institutions and other organizations with the capacity to provide a wide
range of specialized services to be sub-contracted under the project.
- Identify
and establish working relationships with national and regional academic
and research institutions which would serve as part of a development
learning and knowledge management community-of-practice to be developed by
the project under the Advisor’s leadership.
- Establish
a network of key stakeholders and organize periodic opportunities for
USAID to interact with representatives for the purpose of improving CDCS
implementation learning and performance.
- Foster
contacts with other USAID Missions that are advancing similar programs to
promote inter-Mission learning, e.g., USAID/Uganda.
- Lead
the non-technical design and content development of a new Mission portal
for learning and KM – a community-of-practice for CLA.
Qualifications:
Preference will be given to candidates with organizal
learning and knowledge management experience in International Development.
Private sector experience will be considered, provided it is obtained in a
multi-cultural setting. Other requirements are:
- Graduate
(preferably PhD) degree in a field related to organizational learning and
knowledge management, such as management, business administration,
education, knowledge management, organizational development, etc.
- At
least 5 years of professional expertise and experience involving
organizational learning and knowledge management.
- Publication
of articles on these topics in academic and/or professional journals.
- Prior
experience in international development, or work overseas in different
cultural environments (ideally including Africa).
- Strong
communication and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency
in spoken and written English
- Experience
supervising staff and consultants.
- Ability
and willingness to mentor local staff.
- Familiarity
with USAID and/or other international development donors.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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