SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE

CARE aims to make 75 million people more food and nutrition secure and exercise their rights to food and water by 2030. This is in line with our global strategy on the Right to Food, Water, and Nutrition: https://www.care-international.org/files/files/FWN%20impact%20area%20strategy%20summary.pdf To meet this goal, CARE’s focuses Beyond Productivity in our work with local and global food systems. We use the SuPER principles to guide our work. These hold that sustainable smallholder agriculture systems (from inputs to production to processing and marketing, as well as consumption) should be Sustainable, Productive and Profitable, Equitable, and Resilient. They should be designed to achieve multiple benefits at the same time: increasing production, productivity, and incomes in ways that are resilient to climate change, while contributing to women’s empowerment, improved nutrition, and a reduced environmental footprint, and without undermining the food and nutrition security of future generations.

In order to achieve food and nutrition security and resilient to climate change and other shocks and risks, we work directly with communities to prioritize their needs and make sure their voices are heard from local to global levels. We work particularly with women and girls, who face discrimination and can also be key agents of change in their communities. We support poor households to sustainably grow, buy, and use enough nutritious food and to adapt to changes in their climate and environment–now and in the future. And we help families earn, save, and spend money in ways that help themselves and their communities. By putting the priorities of poor people at the center of our efforts, we work to ensure they have more control over their futures and can realize their aspirations for themselves, their families, and their countries. We also understand that policies and behaviors of others impact either positively or negatively the lives of our target population. Therefore we advocate for better and inclusive policies and governance and gender equitable norms and behaviors.

The Knowledge Management and Learning unit of CARE USA’s Food and Water Systems team promotes a culture of learning and information sharing, identifying and scaling the good practices of CARE & others, and influencing policy and practice by diverse actors and decision-makers on food and nutrition security. This team of dynamic and proactive people builds connections around the CARE International network and is a strong asset to the FNS team, providing support to COs and CI, generating evidence of impact, seeking to influence change at scale, and telling CARE’s unique story.

Responsibility:

• Help turn data and analysis into knowledge products for diverse users (50%)
• Create external communications and foster external relationships (20%)
• Support design of learning components in new proposals (25%)
• Other Duties as Assigned (5%)

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a field related to food and nutrition security and climate resilience.
• Practical experience in programming and / or advocacy.
• Experience developing communications documents
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Communications background and experience in external communications and evidence sharing.
• Strong demonstrated understanding in linking robust research and learning to practical action, from design through to dissemination and use.
• Experience turning technical documents and data into external communications for advocacy, fundraising and external representation.
• Experience supporting program design and implementation and in developing learning agendas for Country office programs.
• Able to engage professionally with donors and influential peers in the sector
• Ability to work across different actors, cultural contexts, technical areas and bridge silos within the organization and with external partners
• Strong demonstrated skill working with external partners and bringing several stakeholders together for a common goal
• Ability to work independently and across multiple portfolios and subject areas at the same time
• Strong writing skills
• Managing interns