• Provide technical leadership in developing and implementing the project’s CLA Plan for CLA integration throughout the activity.
  
• Design and execute a comprehensive CLA strategy and framework based on state-of-the-art theory and practice to guide malaria vector control program activities and increase the program’s visibility.
  
• Development of corresponding CLA processes and practices to facilitate strategic collaboration; create, capture, organize, share, and apply knowledge; learn from evidence; and, ultimately, manage adaptively.
  
• Responsible for oversight of gathering data and evaluating information and knowledge (lessons, emerging practices), ensuring that findings are accurately shared in formats tailored to each audience’s needs.
  
• Lead implementation of the project’s knowledge management and communications plan, advancing the contract’s vision, mission, and mandate.
  
• Serves as the focal point to support and coordinate the sharing of promising practices and lessons learned.
  
• Oversee activities to strengthen CLA systems and processes, performance monitoring and evaluation, and learning capabilities of USAID and other targeted stakeholders.
  
• Ensure high-quality KMC systems, platforms, processes, tools, and all assigned tasks and expected deliverables.
  
• Assumes overall responsibility for leading and coordinating all KMC-related activities.
  
• Provide oversight and management of staff, consultants, and vendors hired to provide CLA and KMC services and support.
  
• Serve as a facilitator or co-facilitator of high-level discussions for and among USAID staff and partners regarding KMC, learning, and adaptive management.
  
• Ensure project scope and activities are compliant with USAID policies.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Master’s degree in public health, a degree in communications, knowledge management, organization development, organizational learning, international development, business, social sciences, or another relevant discipline.
  
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in knowledge and adaptive management for public health and private sector health initiatives.
  
• At least five years of experience leading diverse technical teams in knowledge management, change management, or strategic communications onsite and remotely.
  
• International experience in lower- and middle-income countries.
  
• Demonstrated experience in strategy development & design for complex projects.
  
• Up-to-date knowledge of communications and knowledge management (KM) technologies and standards and an understanding of the constraints and benefits of different approaches and technologies.
  
• Familiarity with the international public health sphere and USAID public health programming
  
• Excellent verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  
• Impeccable interpersonal and management skills to support team development and cross-team collaboration in highly complex structures involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and client groups.
  
• Aware of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and multicultural groups in a developing country environment.
  
• Excellent attention to detail and track record of producing high-quality documents.
  
• Ability to meet deadlines under extreme pressure, build consensus and work with diverse groups of people.
  
• English required; proficiency in another language (s) other than English preferred.