FHI 360 is recruiting an Family Planning Advisor to be a key team member working on the new Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing) award, a five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Knowledge SUCCESS (Strengthening Use, Capacity, Collaboration, Exchange, Synthesis, and Sharing), will use the latest learnings from behavioral science and design thinking to make knowledge management easy, attractive, salient and timely. FHI 360 joins the lead partner, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, along with Amref Health Africa and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. The new award will build on the success of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project, on which FHI 360 also served as a partner over the past five years.
Knowledge management is used consistently to improve performance, systems and policies by collecting, curating and adapting the latest evidence and best practices on family planning, reproductive health and other global health areas into tools that make it easy to share with the people on the ground who need it. The goal is to improve the health of men, women and families everywhere. Knowledge SUCCESS will aid other projects funded by USAID that do supply, service delivery, demand generation and advocacy work. In order to fill its mandate to strengthen health systems and improve voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs, Knowledge SUCCESS will work closely with staff in the field to ensure that local organizations can gain the expertise they need to incorporate knowledge management approaches and techniques into what they do.
- Overall responsibility for shaping and implementing technical strategic direction of the project, in coordination with Project Director and AOR
- Works closely with Project Director and other technical staff to maintain quality assurance of technical (FP/RH and KM) project deliverables
- Serves as key technical representative in relevant US-based meetings and at conferences
- Provides input into technical project reports and communications pieces
- Supervises a number of technical staff (KM advisors)
- Prefers at least ten (10) years of experience either managing or providing technical support to large and complex international health projects with significant FP/RH components, of which at least five (5) years in total must have been based/in residence in LMICs.
- Experience with significant FP/RH components should include experience in implementation and FP programming as well as familiarity with current evidence and research in FP/RH.
- Has experience in development and oversight of knowledge management systems and work processes; and in identifying FP/RH knowledge management needs and solutions.
- Demonstrates strong communication skills and experience collaborating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrates innovation and flexibility in technical practice and/or management; and
- Senior technical expert in FP/RH with demonstrated experience operationalizing the integration of critical cross-cutting areas, such as gender or youth, into programs.
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