Uganda: Knowledge Management Officer

About Global Health Corps

Global Health Corps (GHC) is a leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of diverse, disruptive global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively recruit talented professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and backgrounds and place them in high-impact roles within partner organizations — including Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned Parenthood Global, and Government Ministries in Zambia, Rwanda, and Uganda — working on the front lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US, and Zambia.

GHC is seeking fellows from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and expertise. Through a one-year paid fellowship program, fellows provide the expertise and leadership potential needed to fill capacity gaps in global health.

About Placement Organization

Spark seeks to build a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. To do this, Spark catalyzes rural communities facing poverty into action. Since Spark’s founding in 2010, Spark has developed and refined a Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) that has proven highly effective at launching community-driven development projects as well as increasing civic engagement and social cohesion in partner communities. Spark promotes a ‘community-driven, expert supported’ model for development, where local communities are the primary drivers of social change, but have the support and advice of global development experts.

Spark supports rural, poor communities to design, implement and manage their own social impact projects. We provide microgrants of between $2,000 and $10,000 to enable project implementation, such as the establishment of a school, electricity line, or farm. No interest or repayment of the funds granted is requested.

To date Spark has partnered with over 100 communities in Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi who have developed local project plans and are in the process of implementing them. To learn more, visit Spark online at sparkmicrogrants.org and facebook.com/sparkmicrogrants.org.

Position Overview

The Knowledge Management Officer will be based in Gulu and act as a critical liaison between Spark’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Communications teams. The Officer will work with the M&E Team on a variety of data analysis tasks, supporting the team’s demonstration of impact at range of scales – at the community-level, project/sector-level, country-level, and organizationally across the three countries where Spark works. In addition, the individual will have a unique opportunity to help translate data, through written narratives as well as graphs and visualizations, into compelling communications for a range of donor and partner audiences.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities – Data Analysis (50%)

• Work with the M&E Team to prepare and analyze quantitative and qualitative impact data


• Support smooth implementation of M&E systems (including data collection, entry, checking and analysis, as well as data collection tools), providing insight on areas for improvement or innovation


• Identify and contribute to emerging opportunities to understand and measure Spark’s impact


• Provide capacity building and training organization-wide on M&E systems (including data collection, entry, checking and analysis, as well as data collection tools)

Primary responsibilities – Reporting (50%)

• Support routine and ad hoc data reporting requests


• Identify, implement, and innovate on interpretation and presentation of data, in line with specific target audiences and messages


• Craft compelling impact narratives utilizing quantitative and qualitative data


• Develop graphics and visuals that bring our data to life in new ways and with new audiences


• Develop and maintain an up-to-date data reporting library (including data, narratives, and visuals) to strengthen and streamline external reporting


• Contribute to the integration of accurate and compelling data across Spark’s external engagement platforms and collateral, including: annual and quarterly reports, presentations, proposals, white papers, organizational website, social media, etc.


• Provide capacity-building support to country teams on report writing, including data presentation and impact narrative development


• Work with the Communications Manager to strengthen donor reporting work flow for country-specific reports

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong writing and analytical skills


• Ability to adjust writing style and approach to a range of audiences and channels


• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills


• Experience with basic data analysis and/or statistics


• Ability to translate data into graphs, visualizations, and other non-narrative formats


• Knowledge of and comfort with a range of online communications and social media platforms


• Familiarity with key concepts in nonprofit and international development M&E, such as: theories of change, results frameworks, log frames, indicators, and impact assessment

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with or interest in key issues in international development


• Familiarity with or interest in East African context

Fellowship Logistics

During the fellowship year, all fellows are provided with:

• A living stipend of $550/month


• Housing and utilities


• Health insurance


• A professional development grant of $600


• An award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year


• Travel costs covered to and from placement site, training and retreats

*Note: The living stipend and the completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.

Living and Working in Uganda: Fellows are provided with housing and utilities during the fellowship year. Housing arrangements vary based on the placement organization and location within the country. Spark MicroGrants fellows will live in the Spark MicroGrants house in Mbale, a peri-urban center, with frequent travel to Gulu.

To apply to this position click here: http://ghcorps.com/fellows/apply-to-be-a-fellow/application/