Knowledge Management Specialist
About The Position
This role is within the UNOPS Global Portfolios Office (GPO), specifically supporting the UN-IFI Partnership Facility. The Facility aims to strengthen how the UN turns country experience into practical knowledge, partnership action, and policy innovation within the peace finance agenda in conflict-affected settings. The position will lead the Facility’s knowledge management and capacity development functions, providing substantive support to strategic partnerships with the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and other peace finance partners. The Specialist will connect field practice with Headquarters policy by capturing and analyzing lessons, developing knowledge products and learning mechanisms, stewarding a community of practice, and supporting partnership mechanisms, policy development, and innovation. Key responsibilities include integrating gender equality, women’s empowerment, youth inclusion, and the ethical use of digital technology into knowledge and partnership outputs.
Requirements
- Progressively responsible professional experience in knowledge management, policy research and analysis, organizational learning, programme management, partnerships, or a related field.
- Experience developing analytical or knowledge products for professional audiences.
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and translating technical or policy material into clear, practical outputs.
- Fluent English language proficiency.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with the United Nations, International Financial Institutions, or another international organization.
- Experience related to fragility, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, development finance, or conflict-affected settings.
- Experience facilitating peer learning, communities of practice, workshops, or capacity-development activities.
- Experience supporting institutional partnerships, joint workplans, or policy dialogue with the World Bank, African Development Bank, or other IFIs/MDBs.
- Experience with digital knowledge platforms, information architecture, content management, data visualization, or user analytics.
- Experience mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment and/or youth inclusion in research, learning, or programme outputs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the Facility’s knowledge management approach, workplan, and editorial pipeline.
- Establish methods to capture, validate, organize, and disseminate good practices, lessons learned, and emerging evidence.
- Lead or coordinate the preparation of high-quality knowledge products such as good practice notes, lessons-learned briefs, case studies, analytical summaries, guidance materials, and presentations.
- Maintain accessible repositories, taxonomies, and quality standards for Facility knowledge.
- Use stakeholder feedback and evidence to improve the relevance, accessibility, and use of the Facility’s knowledge offer.
- Design and facilitate a regular program of peer learning, webinars, clinics, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
- Establish and steward a community of practice on UN-IFI partnership in conflict-affected settings.
- Translate complex policy and operational experience into practical learning materials and capacity-development resources.
- Promote systematic learning across the Facility’s support model and strengthen feedback loops between country-level practice and Headquarters policy.
- Provide substantive support to implement agreed partnership commitments, workplans, and mechanisms with the World Bank and African Development Bank.
- Prepare background analysis, briefs, agendas, talking points, meeting records, and follow-up trackers for partnership dialogues.
- Coordinate inputs from UN entities, field colleagues, and partners to identify opportunities, risks, and emerging issues.
- Document and disseminate partnership results and good practices.
- Conduct applied research and analysis on UN-IFI partnership, engagement of multilateral development banks, innovative finance, private sector partnerships, digital technology, and other emerging peace finance issues.
- Support collaborative assessments, joint analytical products, and policy dialogue.
- Contribute to concept development, quality assurance, and knowledge components of Facility initiatives.
- Promote conflict-sensitive, inclusive, and ethically grounded approaches, including gender equality, women’s empowerment, youth inclusion, and responsible use of digital technology.
- Contribute to results monitoring for the knowledge management offer.
- Provide substantive inputs to Facility workplans, progress reports, donor briefings, and presentations.
- Coordinate knowledge contributions from consultants, surge experts, embedded personnel, and implementing partners.
- Contribute to resource mobilization, communications, and other Facility priorities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
