VdE | Assistente de Colaboração, Aprendizagem e Adaptação | ELIM Group (ELIM Serviços Lda)
Feed the Future PREMIER is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to facilitate inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agriculture market systems in northern Mozambique. ELIM leads the Collaboration and Learning component of the project under the TechnoServe-led consortium.
The Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Assistant/Officer will join the FtF PREMIER project implementation team in Nampula and report to the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager. S/He should possess keen research and report-writing skills, excellent communication, high concentration levels, good task management, and superior problem-solving and critical thinking skills. S/He will work on a variety of areas, including facilitation of collaborative efforts across technical teams to develop a learning agenda, and to package and document evidence and learning from project activities to inform project approaches/work plans, adaptive management strategies, and collaboration with other programs. The Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Assistant/Officer must demonstrate a strong ability to work in a diverse team and engage external stakeholders, both local and international, in accordance with corporate expectations.
Responsibilities
- Together with MEL Manager, collaboratively implement a robust learning agenda/framework for continuous learning, collaborating, and adapting for the FtF PREMIER technical team and USAID/Mozambique mission staff which includes other programme Implementation Partners (IPs), Mozambican national and provincial government counterparts, and other stakeholders.
- Support the development of tools for realizing FtF PREMIER’s learning and adaptation strategy with a focus on promoting knowledge acquisition, management, documentation, and dissemination for learning and evidence-based design and implementation
- Participate and support capacity-building activities of FtF PREMIER private sector partners and government counterparts, and other stakeholders in the Market Systems Development approach
- Facilitate collaborative planning sessions to finalize learning activities that address learning questions of relevance to key stakeholders
- Coordinate knowledge capture, sharing, and strategic learning relevant to FtF PREMIER
- Synthesize findings from evaluations, assessments, special studies, and other sources for use in project implementation, communications, stakeholder coordination, and reporting.
- Compile and disseminate information from both quantitative and qualitative data on successful and promising interventions, lessons learned and other project results to the USAID/Mozambique mission, local and national-level governmental bodies, other donors, IPs, and other stakeholders
- Coordinate the production if internal and external learning products such as publications and reports on internal and external platforms across various media.
- Facilitate FTF PREMIER’s external knowledge sharing through the participation in local, regional, and international events such as the MSDN in Mozambique, the regional MSD Symposium, and the international BEAM Exchange events
- Promote forums to facilitate collaboration, learning, and adaptation
- Provide technical support on a broad range of CLA, knowledge management (KM), or project capacity-building tasks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in organizational learning, knowledge management, monitoring, and evaluation, or other related areas of expertise; (Master’s degree strongly preferred)
- At least 5 years of experience in knowledge management, organizational learning, and/or strategic learning in an international development context-relevant field.
- Prior experience with USAID activities, including strong conceptual knowledge of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) and how that tie into USAID’s CLA framework
- Proven track record designing learning and communication materials for external audiences.
- Prior experience implementing CLA into the program cycle (preferably with USAID programs)
- Demonstrated understanding of gender and youth issues in agriculture or market systems.
- Experience working in Mozambique. Prior work experience in countries in Southern Africa is an advantage
- Fluency in English and Portuguese with excellent oral and written communication skills in both required
