Knowledge Management & Learning Lead

Do you consider within the energy of studying and proof to enhance outcomes for a few of the world’s most susceptible younger kids and caregivers?

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

The Transferring Minds Alliance (MMA) is an advocacy affect community targeted on Early Childhood Growth 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 kids and caregivers affected by disaster and displacement. MMA’s objective is for all kids and caregivers to have entry to the facility and assets essential 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 answerable for operationalizing particular areas of labor, with assist from the Core Workforce 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, by means of a mix of annual member charges and extra donations and grants. A Steering Committee gives general strategic path. 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 kids and caregivers are disproportionately represented amongst these fleeing from emergencies and crisis-affected contexts. Greater than 43 million kids have been displaced by battle. One in 4 kids world wide lives in contexts affected by battle or catastrophe. Most kids born in displacement will go on to spend their complete childhoods away from residence.

Youngsters’s experiences throughout their formative early years form the structure of the mind. This creates the inspiration for future growth, studying and bodily and psychological well being. Extended publicity to violence and poisonous stress can have life-long unfavourable results on kids’s growth. It will possibly result in larger ranges of despair, anxiousness, and in some circumstances post-traumatic stress dysfunction. Proof signifies that high quality ECDiE companies 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 kids and promote resilience and well-being for a lifetime.

While the worldwide neighborhood has made important efforts to make sure kids have entry to primary healthcare and vitamin, extra should be completed to make sure that caregivers and younger kids can entry high quality ECDiE companies. These companies 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 Data Administration and Studying Lead is a crucial new appointment. The post-holder will assist MMA’s ambition to grow to be the thought chief and ‘go-to’ company for the newest international, 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 prime high quality analysis, data and studying change is the lifeblood of an efficient community. They are going to assist MMA to systematically strengthen studying and data change. They are going to be certain that the views and views of affected kids, caregivers and communities are centred. They are going to assist the Analysis Discussion board on Younger Youngsters in Emergencies, which generates analysis that can be utilized to affect policymakers and practitioners to offer simpler assist to allow younger, displaced kids and their households to thrive.

Tasks:

1. Develop and implement MMA’s MERLA framework and Technique with the assist of technical specialists from throughout the MMA community:
   1. Outline MMA’s studying agenda and collect information and proof on its core analysis questions.
   2. Gather, curate and mixture studying throughout MMA member initiatives and generate proof on the outcomes / affect 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 inner studying, data sharing, and alignment throughout the MMA membership and Working Teams.
   5. Develop mechanisms to assist the MMA’s ongoing efficiency enchancment. This consists of making certain that acceptable digital platforms are in place for information assortment and dealing with the MMA Director to be sure that our studying strategy is supported by means of efficient use of knowledge.
   6. Work with the Communications Supervisor to curate, construct and share our digital library of assets, 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. Improve outreach to and collaboration with regional and international organizations engaged on points associated to younger kids in emergencies by means of participation in occasions and conferences.
2. Oversee the annual manufacturing of key studying merchandise. It will embody experiences which summarise the extent to which nationwide humanitarian and local weather response plans determine and prioritise younger kids and caregivers.
3. Present each day co-ordination and assist to the Transferring Minds Alliance Analysis Discussion board. It will embody:
4. Organizing and producing webinars, to make clear ongoing analysis efforts happening worldwide, particularly targeted on younger kids 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 crew, the post-holder will even share the MMA crew’s collective duty to ship an efficient and impactful secretariat perform.

Key Working Relationships

The Data Administration & Studying Lead will work independently, reporting to the MMA Director. They are going to be a senior member of the core crew and will likely 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 will likely be actively concerned within the administration of The Analysis Discussion board.

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

They are going to determine, interact, and work with native companions immediately concerned in implementing ECDiE in various contexts and settings.

They are going to collaborate with IRC crew members the place required. On occasion, they might oversee consultants.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Important

Abilities, Data and Expertise.

You’ll deliver 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 affect.
• Creating and implementing related and proportionate monitoring, analysis, analysis, studying and accountability frameworks.
• Utilizing revolutionary and artistic approaches (jncluding participatory, qualitative analysis methodologies and information assortment instruments) to assist native ‘non-research specialist’ companions to generate analysis and studying throughout quite a lot of various, usually low useful resource settings.
• Creating methods to strengthen advocacy to various nationwide, regional and international resolution makers utilizing analysis and studying generated by native companions.
• Sensible software of analysis ethics and safeguarding.
• Working in a community with confirmed potential to construct efficient relationships and matrix-manage throughout geographically dispersed groups and organisations.
• Recruiting and managing technical specialists, making certain their merchandise are helpful and integrated into ongoing work.

Values & attributes

Keen about and dedicated to:

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

Is happy to:

• Deliver a inventive, entrepreneurial, and dynamic strategy
• Work independently with mild contact supervision.
• Use data and studying to strengthen the standard of community collaboration, convening and relationships.
• Capable of work in a dynamic, dispersed and adaptive crew, comfy with complicated challenges.

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

Easy methods to apply

Candidates will need to have the proper to work within the UK. The deadline is for seventeenth of April 2024. The wage for this function is £55,000 each year

Please apply through the hyperlink: https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/51230?c=rescue

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