Knowledge Management, Learning and Systemic Capacity Development Specialist

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.

The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) works to ensure that countries and stakeholders respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. OCB provides a cross-organizational coordination role on these issues and is the focal point to major multilateral environmental agreements including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

OCB assists FAO Members in their responses towards the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation including through facilitating access to climate and environmental financing such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

In addition, OCB hosts the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as well as FAO’s work on environmental safeguards and leads the Programme Priority Areas on Climate Change (PPA BE1) and Bioeconomy for Sustainable Food and Agriculture (PPA BE2).

FAO’s OCB is seeking specialists to transform Knowledge Management (KM), learning, and capacity development into strategic products. These specialists will help capture lessons learned, develop learning products, and translate technical experience into practical tools across climate, biodiversity, environmental and agrifood programmes. The goal is to strengthen replicability, institutional effectiveness and facilitate durable, large‑scale impact.

Depending on the specific needs, the work may involve knowledge audits, stakeholder consultations, development of knowledge and learning strategies, design of knowledge products and portals, support to communities of practice, preparation of learning events and capacity development materials, documentation of innovations and results, and support to monitoring, evaluation, reporting and communication processes.

Through this call for expression of interest, FAO aims at capturing, systematizing and disseminating knowledge derived from initiatives in the nexus between sustainable food systems and climate change, biodiversity, and environment.

The specialist will report to OCB supervisor and will work under the technical supervision of programme managers, technical officers, project management units and decentralized offices, as appropriate to each assignment.

The Knowledge Management, Learning and Systemic Capacity Development Specialist will support OCB in strengthening knowledge generation, learning, experience capitalization and systemic capacity development across its thematic units and portfolio of projects and programmes.

• Develop an OCB-customized experience capitalization methodology to systematically capture good practices, distill lessons learned, support continuous learning, and enable the development of global public goods within and across OCB projects and programmes.
• Conduct inclusive knowledge management and learning audits, needs assessments and stakeholder consultations to identify the status, gaps, opportunities and risks related to KML across OCB projects and programmes, and translate the findings into practical recommendations for project and programme-level KML strategies.
• Assess existing knowledge-sharing and learning platforms and support the establishment or strengthening of platforms and Communities of Practice within OCB projects and programmes, with a view to maximizing South‑South, North‑South and gender-sensitive learning, knowledge exchange and innovation scale‑up.
• Support OCB projects and programmes in establishing…