Knowledge Management & Learning Lead

Do you consider within the energy of studying and proof to enhance outcomes for among the world’s most weak younger youngsters and caregivers?

If the reply to this query is sure, that is the function for you!

The Transferring Minds Alliance (MMA) is an advocacy influence community targeted on Early Childhood Improvement in Emergencies (ECDiE). It includes a (rising) community of 38 organizations working collectively to extend the amount and high quality of funding, coverage prioritization, and management wanted to successfully assist younger youngsters and caregivers affected by disaster and displacement. MMA’s aim is for all youngsters and caregivers to have entry to the facility and sources obligatory to fulfill their self-determined wants in an atmosphere of dignity, fairness and care, particularly in conditions of nationwide and worldwide displacement.

MMA doesn’t present funding for implementation of early childhood packages. As a community, its actions are led by members collaborating in working teams chargeable for operationalizing particular areas of labor, with assist from the Core Group and a few exterior consultants. Operational prices and actions are financed by a sub-group of philanthropic foundations, that are a part of the general MMA membership, via a mixture of annual member charges and extra donations and grants. A Steering Committee supplies total strategic course. MMA is hosted by the Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC-UK).

Our Imaginative and prescient: Rebuilding resilience of the youngest refugees

Pressured displacement worldwide is at a file excessive. Younger youngsters and caregivers are disproportionately represented amongst these fleeing from emergencies and crisis-affected contexts. Greater than 43 million youngsters have been displaced by battle. One in 4 youngsters world wide lives in contexts affected by battle or catastrophe. Most youngsters born in displacement will go on to spend their total childhoods away from residence.

Kids’s experiences throughout their formative early years form the structure of the mind. This creates the muse for future improvement, studying and bodily and psychological well being. Extended publicity to violence and poisonous stress can have life-long unfavourable results on youngsters’s improvement. It might result in larger ranges of melancholy, nervousness, and in some circumstances post-traumatic stress dysfunction. Proof signifies that high quality ECDiE providers that assist mother and father, caregivers, and households to offer nurturing care throughout disaster can mitigate the unfavourable results of trauma and stress on younger youngsters and promote resilience and well-being for a lifetime.

While the worldwide neighborhood has made vital efforts to make sure youngsters have entry to primary healthcare and vitamin, extra should be finished to make sure that caregivers and younger youngsters can entry high quality ECDiE providers. These providers are severely missing in disaster conditions throughout the globe, in addition to in communities internet hosting refugees and asylum-seekers.

The Function of the Position

The Information Administration and Studying Lead is a crucial new appointment. The post-holder will assist MMA’s ambition to change into the thought chief and ‘go-to’ company for the newest world, regional and native pondering, proof and advocacy content material on ECDiE. They are going to strengthen MMA’s capability for disseminating studying and proof for impactful advocacy, selling uptake of proof that emerges from analysis, linking researchers with coverage makers and practitioners who can use it, together with the event of studying merchandise and coverage statements.

The post-holder will perceive that top high quality analysis, data and studying trade is the lifeblood of an efficient community. They are going to assist MMA to systematically strengthen studying and data trade. They are going to be certain that the views and views of affected youngsters, caregivers and communities are centred. They are going to assist the Analysis Discussion board on Younger Kids in Emergencies, which generates analysis that can be utilized to affect policymakers and practitioners to offer simpler assist to allow younger, displaced youngsters and their households to thrive.

Tasks:

1. Develop and implement MMA’s MERLA framework and Technique with the assist of technical consultants from throughout the MMA community:
   1. Outline MMA’s studying agenda and collect knowledge and proof on its core analysis questions.
   2. Acquire, curate and combination studying throughout MMA member initiatives and generate proof on the outcomes / influence of MMA actions.
   3. Harvest, distil and (internally and externally) disseminate proof and studying on ECDiE from its members.
   4. Create platforms and processes to assist and improve inside studying, data sharing, and alignment throughout the MMA membership and Working Teams.
   5. Develop mechanisms to assist the MMA’s ongoing efficiency enchancment. This contains guaranteeing that acceptable digital platforms are in place for knowledge assortment and dealing with the MMA Director to be sure that our studying method is supported via efficient use of information.
   6. Work with the Communications Supervisor to curate, construct and share our digital library of sources, data and data throughout the Alliance membership.
   7. Establish, interact and assist native companions to reap emergent proof from community-based improvements in ECDiE. Current this proof in case research and different studying merchandise which can be utilized to extend the effectiveness of advocacy.
   8. Enhance outreach to and collaboration with regional and world organizations engaged on points associated to younger youngsters in emergencies via participation in occasions and conferences.
2. Oversee the annual manufacturing of key studying merchandise. This can embrace reviews which summarise the extent to which nationwide humanitarian and local weather response plans establish and prioritise younger youngsters and caregivers.
3. Present each day co-ordination and assist to the Transferring Minds Alliance Analysis Discussion board. This can embrace:
4. Organizing and producing webinars, to make clear ongoing analysis efforts happening worldwide, particularly targeted on younger youngsters and households in emergency contexts.
5. Creating month-to-month analysis roundups to compile the newest, related, and impactful analysis findings in ECDiE.
6. Selling the “Meet the Fellows” collection on the MMA’s social media platforms (LinkedIn & Twitter), in collaboration with the Communications Supervisor.
7. Increasing participation by members and Analysis Fellows at conferences and occasions.

As a part of a small staff, the post-holder will even share the MMA staff’s collective duty to ship an efficient and impactful secretariat perform.

Key Working Relationships

The Information Administration & Studying Lead will work independently, reporting to the MMA Director. They are going to be a senior member of the core staff and can be anticipated to assist day-to-day actions. The post-holder will work collaboratively with MMA member representatives. They are going to work alongside MMA working teams and committees, such because the Steering and Technique Committees

They are going to work carefully with the Arab Useful resource Collective (ARC – the host group of ANECD) in Lebanon and BRAC IED in Bangladesh, two of MMA’s key members which can be actively concerned within the administration of The Analysis Discussion board.

The function will contain coordinating with monitoring and analysis and/or programmatic workers from the totally different organisations throughout the membership and with our companions.

They are going to establish, interact, and work with native companions instantly concerned in implementing ECDiE in numerous contexts and settings.

They are going to collaborate with IRC staff members the place required. Infrequently, they might oversee consultants.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Important

Abilities, Information and Expertise.

You’ll carry a observe file of:

• Curating and disseminating analysis and studying to affect policymakers and practitioners.
• Utilizing analysis and studying to strengthen community members’ engagement and improve collective influence.
• Creating and implementing related and proportionate monitoring, analysis, analysis, studying and accountability frameworks.
• Utilizing revolutionary and artistic approaches (jncluding participatory, qualitative analysis methodologies and knowledge assortment instruments) to assist native ‘non-research specialist’ companions to generate analysis and studying throughout a wide range of numerous, sometimes low useful resource settings.
• Creating methods to strengthen advocacy to numerous nationwide, regional and world resolution makers utilizing analysis and studying generated by native companions.
• Sensible software of analysis ethics and safeguarding.
• Working in a community with confirmed capability to construct efficient relationships and matrix-manage throughout geographically dispersed groups and organisations.
• Recruiting and managing technical consultants, guaranteeing their merchandise are helpful and integrated into ongoing work.

Values & attributes

Obsessed with and dedicated to:

• Utilizing analysis, proof and studying to contribute to sustainable change for youngsters in disaster.
• Dedication to the decolonization of information and studying
• Ideas of fairness, transparency and inclusion.
• Guaranteeing methods, approaches and relationships are free from any type of racism, bias, discrimination, or exclusion.

Is worked up to:

• Carry a inventive, entrepreneurial, and dynamic method
• Work independently with mild contact supervision.
• Use data and studying to strengthen the standard of community collaboration, convening and relationships.
• In a position to work in a dynamic, dispersed and adaptive staff, comfy with advanced challenges.

MMA’s Core Group and pooled fund is held by the Worldwide Rescue Committee. As such, workers are employed on IRC contracts.