PROGRAMMES SPECIALIST, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

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Le Fonds Africain pour le Developpement de la Femme (Rapport Annuel ) est une fondation subventionnaire, qui vise à soutenir le travail du mouvement des femmes africaines pour la paix, égalité, développement durable et justice sociale. Rapport Annuel , qui est basé à Accra, Ghana. AWDF requires the services of an experienced, innovative and dedicated Programmes Specialist, Gestion des connaissances, to support the senior management team in the development and implementation of an organisational knowledge management strategy.

Job Specification

En tant qu'organisation apprenante, la génération du savoir, sa gestion et sa diffusion sont essentielles au travail d'AWDF. Knowledge produced in various forms within AWDF is important to the organisation’s mandate to raise the profile and visibility of African women, the African Women’s Movement, the organisation itself and most importantly, the issues it seeks to address.AWDF also disseminates knowledge to showcase the work of its grantees, to raise awareness of the issues they seek to address, to influence decision-making in Africa and internationally and to mobilise greater public support for women’s rights in Africa. en outre, it generates and disseminates information, knowledge and learning to strengthen grantee organisational effectiveness.

The post holder will be responsible for coordinating AWDF’s knowledge management function, ensuring a sound evidence base of the impact of AWDF’s work, as well as the ability to showcase this work and the issues the organisation seeks to address, to broad publics both internal and external to AWDF.

The post holder will have primary responsibility for:

1. Commissioning, Repackaging and Disseminating of research in AWDF’s key areas of work:

• Ensuring AWDF is kept abreast of external research, studies and trends that will impact on AWDF’s key areas of work.
• Coordinating specified AWDF commissioned research
• Developing tools to enhance knowledge management within AWDF
• Working closely with the Communications team to disseminate key information and education about AWDF’s work.

2. Ensuring Quality Standards of AWDF’s Knowledge Production
   • Coordinating the compilation of AWDF’s key publications
   • Ensuring that publications such as reports and other publications are produced in line with AWDF’s publications and reporting guidelines.
   • Ensuring that all AWDF commissioned research and documentation is produced in line with AWDF publications and reporting guidelines.

3. Ensuring a Sound Evidence Base of AWDF’s Impact
   • Working with the M&E Specialist to produce periodic qualitative and quantitive reports of AWDF’s work and achievements
   • Compiling or coordinating compelling narratives of the achievements of AWDF’s constituents for advocacy, awareness raising and public mobilisation.
   • Development of dissemination strategies for this work
   • Supporting senior management and AWDF colleagues with high quality, well written, accurate and specific information to achieve AWDF’s mandate
   • Developing and managing a database of AWDF’s key partners and stakeholders.

4. Ensuring Knowledge Production as a Learning Tool
   • Coordinating the production or collation of good practice guidelines, tools and practice
   • Providing regular internal briefs to AWDF staff team
   • Developing advocacy materials, policy and legislative briefs on key aspects of AWDF’s work
   • Representing AWDF at key meetings and convenings with a view to demonstrate AWDF effectiveness and value added from a sound evidence base.

5. Managing AWDF’s Resource Centre
   • Working with the team to update the electronic and physical library as well as oversee the use of this resource).
   • Providing guidance to the management team on key research, Documentation, studies and writing for purchase to house in the resource centre

6. Toute autre tâche pouvant être assignée par le supérieur hiérarchique

Spécification de la personne

• At least a second degree in social sciences or related field with at least seven years relevant experience, including significant experience of working in the field of women’s rights organising in Africa.
• Forte capacité d'analyse, writing and communication skills.
• Strong IT skills especially in the areas of database development and management
• Demonstrable commitment to women’s rights and social justice.
• A productive self starter who can develop and put in place innovative information ideas
• Demonstrable ability to liaise with a broad range of people
• Ability to absorb high volumes of information and documentation and to break down difficult and complicated concepts.
• Ability to track multiple activities assist and collaborate with other staff and respond to direction and requests
• Capacité à travailler seul avec un minimum de supervision.
• Experience working with an international organisation (préféré)
• Working knowledge of French preferred.
• Experience of engaging in social science research is desirable
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally

Qualified candidates should send applications (2 pages) et un CV ne dépassant pas 4 pages au responsable des ressources humaines, Fonds de Développement des Femmes Africaines (Rapport Annuel ), 78 Ambassadorial Enclave, East Legon, P.M.B.CT 89, Cantonments Accra Ghana. Les copies doivent être envoyées par courriel à Grace@africlub.net/awdf, with ‘Programmes Specialist, Knowledge Management’ as the subject reference. Applications should reach AWDF no later than February 28, 2013.

Seuls les candidats présélectionnés seront contactés pour des informations complémentaires et des entretiens.