International Business &
Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development
consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries
and has implemented over two hundred projects. IBTCI has served governments,
private sector companies and several donor agencies in the practice area of
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including education,
health, economic growth and democracy & governance.
The United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) is seeking proposals to increase the impact
and cost effectiveness of the ICT Extension Challenge Fund country grantees by
tracking their progress and facilitating learning and adaptation; and Enable
other stakeholders to learn from this work as well. To achieve these goals, the
Contractor will design and implement an approach that will meet four
inter-related objectives related to monitoring and learning as follows:
· Objective 1: Finalize results
framework and related documents across ICT Extension Challenge Fund Country
grantees, consistent with SSTP Results Framework;
· Objective 2: Collect and report
results in a timely manner using good practices;
· Objective 3: Create and
facilitate a learning network among grantees;
· Objective 4: Develop and
implement a dissemination plan to share learning and results with interested
stakeholders
POSITION SUMMARY
The Communications/Knowledge
Management person would lead the development of knowledge, skills and abilities
of USAID and relevant stakeholders to prepare evidence-based materials and
tools and effectively utilize them. Specific activities may include the
following.
- Advise and support the team to produce more
evidence-based reporting and develop analytical products to support
learning that advances and provides a forward evolution of activities - Asses the usefulness of learning events and environments
- Assess current knowledge management and learning needs,
- Design and create a knowledge management framework and
implementation plan. - Develop the knowledge, skills and abilities of relevant
stakeholders to prepare evidence-based materials and tools and effectively
utilize them.
QUALIFICATIONS
The Communications/Knowledge
Management Specialist should have:
· A university degree in a
relevant subject area
· At least 5 years of
progressive, demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of
communications and knowledge management strategies for major development
assistance programs; including USAID Mission work in Africa;
· Experience in Ethiopia, Ghana,
Malawi, Mozambique, and/or Senegal highly desired; including experience with
government Ministries and country stakeholders
· Agricultural sector experience
highly desired; including familiarity with small enterprise farmers
· Excellent written and oral
communication and outstanding interpersonal skills.
APPLY
Please submit all application
materials along with three references here https://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/.
Any questions please contact
yinanli [AT] ibtci [dot] com
