Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer Vacancy in Africa

The World Bank,
a member of the World Bank Group, is a vital source of financial and
technical
assistance to developing countries around the world. Our
mission is to fight poverty with passion and
professionalism for
lasting results and to help people help themselves and their
environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity
and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

The World Bank Group is launching a recruitment drive aimed at
increasing the number of Sub Saharan Africans in its work force. This
commitment to hire Sub Saharan Africans reflects the Bank Group’s
senior leadership commitment for a diverse workforce in which African
nationals can play a key role in fighting poverty and increasing
shared prosperity. Employment opportunities will be in various
technical areas and professional streams for talented and diverse
young professionals and mid-career level professionals to contribute
and grow their skills in a career in international development.

A career with the World Bank Group offers a unique opportunity for
exceptionally talented individuals with a passion for international
development to contribute to solving some of the world’s most pressing
problems. Bank staff work with governments, civil society groups, the
private sector, and others in developing countries around the world,
assisting people in all areas of development, from policy and strategic
advice to the identification, preparation, appraisal, and supervision
of development projects.

We are recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer

Location: Africa

Job Description

• The Vice Presidency for Leadership, Learning, and Innovation
  (LLI) is responsible for translating development knowledge into client
  and staff learning and innovation to help address development
  challenges.
• The goal of this program is to strengthen country institutions
  to more systematically capture and share critical lessons learned from
  operations for domestic and international adaptation and scale-up.
• The Organizational Knowledge Sharing (OKS) Team, housed in the
  Client Services (LLICS) of LLI, is seeking a highly motivated Senior
  Knowledge and Learning Officer to support its mission to increase the
  use of smart peer-to-peer client knowledge sharing as an accelerator of
  development solutions.
• The Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer will lead client
  engagements to support comprehensive behavior change programs towards
  more systematic use of experiences as evidence-based solutions that
  merit scale-up within the organization, domestically and
  internationally.
• LLI has developed a systematic approach to developing institutional capacity for capturing, packaging, and sharing knowledge.
• This position will require travel to client countries.
• In addition, the Senior Knowledge and Learning Officer will
  guide target institutions in assessing their institutional capacity for
  knowledge exchange/sharing and co-create knowledge sharing capacity
  building plans with institutional leadership; advise clients on change
  management and human resource development; and provide technical skills
  building in the areas of identifying, capturing, packaging, and sharing
  operational experiences and lessons learned.

Requirements

• The successful candidate would have a Master’s degree or above
  in business administration, HR management, knowledge management,
  learning, or a related field with a focus on multidisciplinary themes of
  organizational learning, change management, organizational development,
  capacity building, and institutional knowledge sharing with a minimum
  of 10 years of relevant work experience, preferably in developing
  countries, and demonstrated experience facilitating change management
  efforts in complex organizational settings in a developing country
  setting, including in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
• Furthermore, the position requires a thorough understanding of
  and familiarity with technologies, tools and approaches for
  organizational and human resource development, knowledge management, and
  peer-to-peer learning, as well as excellent, demonstrated project
  management and facilitation skills.

How to Apply

Click here to apply online

If you are interested in this position, please click the link above to
submit your application. You will be prompted to log in to the “Member
Center” or “Create a New Account”. Please fill in all fields, answer the
screening questions if any, attach your resume or CV, and submit your
Statement of Interest (no more than 700 words).

Note

• A select number of candidates will be interviewed in September and October 2015 in Washington, D.C. and locations in Africa and Europe.
• Those applications that were not selected for interview during
  this campaign will be kept on file for up to one year and may be
  considered for future opportunities.
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 
 Deadline  31st August, 2015.