Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria
Program Officer I – Knowledge Management & Documentation at Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria. Please make sure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.
Breakthrough ACTION ignites collective action and encourages people to adopt healthier behavior – from using modern contraceptive methods and sleeping under bed nets to being tested for HIV and preventing the spread of zoonotic diseases – by forging, testing, and scaling up new and hybrid approaches to social and behavior change.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Program Officer I – Knowledge Management and Documentation
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Project Description
- Breakthrough ACTION is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead their social behavior change (SBC) programming around the world. Breakthrough ACTION is a partnership led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in collaboration with Save the Children, ThinkPlace, ideas42, Camber Collective, International Center for Research on Women, and Viamo.
- In Nigeria, Breakthrough ACTION (Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria) focuses their SBC efforts on malaria; maternal, newborn, and child health, including nutrition (MNCHN); family planning/reproductive health; TB; priority zoonotic diseases; and the COVID-19 response.
- In addition, Breakthrough ACTION supports capacity strengthening of key stakeholders to design, implement, and evaluate SBC activities.
Summary
- This position will be responsible for coordinating the documentation, archiving and dissemination activities on the project.
- S/he will be responsible for supporting material development, collation and archival, while harvesting project learnings and successes for development of knowledge management products for different audiences.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with the project team leads to ensure documentation and archival of all project resources including SBC materials, success stories, reports and databases.
- Support the KM lead on all knowledge management activities including work plan development, reporting and strategic knowledge sharing events.
- Develop and implement activity specific documentation plans to harvest outputs for the development of and knowledge management products.
- Lead training on the application of knowledge management approaches to facilitate effective knowledge sharing within the project.
- Generate knowledge management products that demonstrate the project’s learnings with external audiences;
- Support State teams to review and finalize monthly reports with comprehensive review, feedback and identification of key outputs to be further developed into knowledge management products.
- Coordinate or represent the project at relevant stakeholder meetings and events.
- Manage the project team drive with comprehensive monthly audits and codification of resources for both internal and external dissemination
- Other duties as identified and assigned by supervisor and/or Abuja country office program leads.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Social / Health Sciences, Mass Communication, Information Communications Technology, Public Administration or related discipline is required.
- Previous work experience implementing USAID-funded or donor-funded health programs is strongly preferred.
- Excellent organizational, problem-solving skills and attention to details are essential.
- Ability to work independently and proactively and track multiple activities and deadlines.
- Strong communication skills (written & spoken) in the English language and one or more Nigerian language(s) is required.
- Ability to travel within Nigeria and work successfully within a cross-cultural, multi-sectoral, multi-project team-based environment.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in SBC programming, audience segmentation, message development, and communication channels.
- Experience organising dissemination events and stakeholder management.
- Working knowledge of MS Office Packages and database software and applications.
- Ability to use the photography and videography equipment and software
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in PDF format to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail e.g. “Program Officer I – Knowledge Management and Documentation – Abuja”.
Application Deadline
25th October, 2021.