Technical Advisor , Knowledge Management & External Engagement

Position: Technical Advisor I, Knowledge Management & External Engagement
Job Summary:

Provides technical leadership for knowledge management and external visibility across large, multi-country global health projects in global health security, emergency and outbreak response, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, maternal, newborn, and child health, and health systems strengthening. Develops and implements activities to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning. Produces strategic messaging and high-quality technical products for donor, government, and partner organization audiences to communicate project achievements, innovations, and impact.

Leads planning and execution of webinars, conference sessions, and technical events. Ensures technical accuracy, consistency, and adherence to donor branding and marking requirements and organizational standards across products. Works collaboratively with technical teams, country offices, and partners to capture, synthesize, and disseminate evidence, lessons learned, and best practices that strengthen program performance and promote the use of knowledge across projects.

Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities are essential; experience with social media, photography, graphic design, and visual communications is desirable.

Technical Requirements:

Provide leadership in knowledge management, external visibility, and strategic engagement related to one or more of the following technical areas: global health security; outbreak and emergency response; HIV; tuberculosis; malaria; polio; maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition; and health systems strengthening.

Demonstrates good judgment in selecting approaches and tools to facilitate identification and communication of lessons learned, best practices, and innovations and delivering high-quality deliverables and events, with some supervision.

Coordinates with other members of the technical teams, country office staff and Global Communications.

Project Design and Implementation:

Develops and maintains processes, tools, and approaches that promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and cross-country learning across large, multi-country projects.

Facilitates the identification, documentation, synthesis, and dissemination of lessons learned, best practices, innovations, and project achievements across countries and technical areas.

Leads the planning and implementation of webinars, learning events, technical exchanges, conference sessions, and other knowledge-sharing activities that support project and organizational objectives.

Creates knowledge management portion of the project plan, within the given resource and financial constraints

Coordinates requests from CO (Country Office) for technical assistance

Leads the design, development, planning, and execution of knowledge products and knowledge exchange events

Ensures technical implementation is consistent with best practices in the industry / subject and meet client / funder contractual obligations

May supervise junior technical staff members, sub-contractors, consultants, and others implementing technical project work Develops tools for the design and implementation of knowledge management activities

Track delivery of project outputs

Client/Funder Support:

Represents the organization and / or Institute to external entities at professional meetings and conferences.

Maintains collaborative relationships with donor/client organizations, relevant government agencies, bilateral and other NGOs and consistently maintained and viewed as a knowledgeable resource in their technical area.

Continually maintains a dialogue and technical exchange with field counterparts and technical staff members of implementing partners.

Participate in client / funder meetings and draft reports/presentations.

Capacity Strengthening:

Develops and implements activities to strengthen the knowledge management capacity of country office staff.

May supervise or provide technical guidance to staff members locally and in the region.

Project/Program Reporting:

Develops products, including success stories, technical briefs, case studies, lessons learned documents, fact sheets, presentations, and other materials that support program learning and dissemination.

Contributes to the development of digital and visual knowledge products, including social media content, photography, data visualization, graphic design, and multimedia materials, as needed.

Synthesizes technical information and evidence from multiple sources into concise, audience-appropriate products…