General

Description of assignment title: Knowledge Management Associate

Assignment country: Ghana

Expected start date: 09/01/2023

Sustainable Development Goal: 3. Good health and well-being

Volunteer category: International UN University Volunteer

DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No

Host entity: UNICEF

Type: Onsite

Duration: 12 months

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations: Accra

Details

Mission and objectives

The Child Protection Programme of UNICEF Ghana is committed to ensuring that by 2022, girls and boys in Ghana, especially the most disadvantaged, increasingly benefit from an equitable and integrated child protection system that better protect them from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. The system is focus on the establishment of effective structures, functions and capacities that can prevent and respond to all child protection issues. It also seeks to integrate the actions of families (and children including adolescents), communities, formal and informal laws and practices together to protect children. To achieve these, strategic investments are made to: i) Bringing relevant policy, legal and regulatory framework in line with international standards and good practices ii) strengthening the capacity of formal and informal service providers actors to prevent and respond effectively to protection issues; and iii) supporting interventions aimed at behavioural and social change among girls, boys, families and communities. Among all children, adolescent girls in Ghana are disproportionately affected by child protection concerns, including exposure to gender discrimination, child marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting, sexual violence, unsafe migration and trafficking, among others. The purpose of the proposed UNV assignment is to provide assistance to the Child Protection section of UNICEF Ghana in further developing and strengthening its interventions for better protection of adolescent girls, by working closely with particularly vulnerable group of girls, their families and communities, service providers and other key local and national stakeholders.

Context

The UNV will support the Health and Nutrition section to strengthen its knowledge management structures. The Health and Nutrition section is working in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service to ensure that every child survives and thrives. The program focuses on strengthening health and nutrition systems to deliver resilient, equitable, evidence-based, quality, inclusive and gender-responsive primary health care and nutrition services for women, children and adolescents. To this end, UNICEF is supporting a number of interventions being implemented across the continuum of care. The interventions are being implemented across four key output areas namely increasing access to dignified and quality health and nutrition services, improving health and nutrition finance, governance, policies and strategies for effective service delivery, strengthening emergency preparedness and resilience for vulnerable populations, and increased data quality and evidence generation for advocacy, policy and decision making. The activities designed to achieve these outputs and the corresponding indicators to track progress have been outlined in program strategy notes and annual workplans. To achieve program goals, effective management and tracking of project implementation is a key requirement. Additionally, mapping of interventions by other organizations is key to promote synergies and avoid duplications. Effective monitoring and data management is also key to improve donor reporting and donor visibility. The UNV will support the Health and Nutrition section to strengthen its knowledge management structures.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Health Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

•  Support staff to identify, manage, package and disseminate key information to advance technical practice in development and effectively share program results and impact with key stakeholder audiences including development practitioners and academic/research partners.
•  Support the implementation of Knowledge Mobilization strategy, standards and process-es, and support to interpret and promote Knowledge management standards, guidelines and best practices.
•  Contribute to the design, management and dissemination of a quarterly dashboard that tracks and visually presents data for the Health and Nutrition section, and support to inte-grate this into the Country Office required data monitoring tools such as TrackMe
•  Assist in tracking KM opportunities against targets established within the Country Program Document and Annual Workplan.
•  Assist Program officers to coordinate research, evaluations, assessments and surveys in the Health and Nutrition Section. For documents intended for publication and/ or wider dis-semination, the Officer will support submission review process for journal publications, conferences, poster presentations and other learning events.
•  Assist staff members to ensure that Health and Nutrition Program impact is regularly and effectively communicated to Implementing Partners and donors

Eligibility criteria

Age: 18 – 26

Additional eligibility criteria

ELIGIBILITY – Candidates must be Korean nationals between 18 and 29 years of age at the time of application. – You must be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree or have recently graduated (no longer than 12 months ago at the time of application). – Candidates who already served on a UN Volunteer assignment funded by KOICA are not eligible. APPLICATION – If you are currently enrolled in a university and have not yet obtained a university degree, indicate in the section ‘Academic qualifications’ under ‘diploma/degree obtained’ that you are still studying and towards which degree. In the ‘to’ field, enter the current date, as the system does not allow you to enter a future date. Instead of the degree certificate, upload any evidence of your enrollment, for example a transcript. – You may apply to a maximum of three assignments and indicate the order of preference in the ‘Additional remarks’ field when filling in the application form. – If you are above the age of 26, a notification will be displayed that you are not eligible to apply. You may ignore this and proceed with submitting your application. – Application deadline: 1 May 2022 SELECTION – Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The selection will be done by the UN Host Entity at the level of the country of assignment. Interviews will be conducted by the UN Host Entity between 19 May and 9 June. – Selected candidates will be invited to attend a mandatory online preparation training on 21 and 24 August. +++ UN Volunteer entitlement calculator: https://app.unv.org/calculator +++

Nationality

Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.

Donor priorities

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Requirements

Required experience

0 years of experience in and/or demonstrated interest in evidence-based programming, knowledge management principles and interest in delivering knowledge management and/or organizational learning activities.

•  Demonstrated interest in and capacity to deliver knowledge management and/or organizational learning programs
•  Good analytical skills and the ability to translation of complex concepts into clear, understandable ideas.
•  Data analysis
•  Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded.

Area(s) of expertise

Communication, Development programmes

Driving license

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Languages

English, Level: Fluent, Required

Required education level

Bachelor degree or equivalent in (currently enrolled or recent graduate) in a development-related area with experience in Knowledge management and communication, or postgraduate studies in communication with a development-related area and Knowledge management experience.

Competencies and values

Building Trust, Creativity, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Knowledge Sharing, Self-Management, Working in Teams

Other information

Living conditions and remarks

Cantonments is an affluent suburb of the Ghanaian city Accra, in the La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Most of the homes in the area are often occupied by the wealthy, expatriates, academics, or government officials. Many diplomatic missions in the country are in the Cantonments area including the U.S. Embassy. It takes an average time of less than 30 minutes to reach the office from most residential areas within a 5 km radius. It is easily accessible by taxi, transport hailing apps (uber, bolt etc.). It is within a safe area in Accra and close by the Police Headquarters and considered safe to commute for expatriates. A private vehicle is desirable, not a necessity considering the proximity and accessibility of the location. Housing There are several housing apartments and houses within 5 km radius from UNICEF Office. These are usually serviced or semi serviced depending on tenants’ preference. The average price is about $2,500/month, while the cheapest house available starts at $ 700/month and the most expensive costs around 10,000/month. Houses are listed by verified realtors, property owners and well-known real estate developers. Cost of Living Please indicate the overall cost of living in the country of duty station. Accra, the nation’s capital has a relatively high cost of living compared to other cities and towns in the country. Average prices for rent, food and transportation can be relatively high compared to the average income levels. Despite this, there is relatively easy access to basic amenities with the city.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Reasonable accommodation

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

In addition to duty station-specific vaccine requirements, appointments are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the appointment. It does not apply to UN Volunteers who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.