Вакансія: Knowledge Specialist to Ukraine Reforms Architecture Project

The Ukraine Reforms Architecture is a comprehensive technical assistance programme deployed by the EBRD, in partnership with the European Union, to support critical reform processes in Ukraine. It is financed from the Ukraine Stabilisation and Sustainable Growth Multi-Donor Account (MDA) managed by the EBRD. URA was designed as a holistic mechanism for stimulating systemic change in Ukraine’s public institutions and improving the business climate in the country. URA fills the critical capacity gaps in Ukraine’s public institutions by supplying reform talent at all levels of government. Since 2016, more than 200 Ukrainian reformers have worked in the project’s various components and contributed to dozens of reform outcomes, strategies and policies.

Drawing on the lessons learned from the initial phase of implementation of the Ukraine Reforms Architecture project, URA 2.0 introduces a number of enhancements aimed at ensuring sustainability of its capacity building efforts within the Ukrainian public administration. Over the four years of their operations, the RSTs and the RDO have made visible contributions to the quality of reform design and implementation within the host institutions. To lock in the positive effects of collaborative work with their civil service counterparts, the capacity-building and knowledge transfer component of the project requires further strengthening.

Scope of Services and Tasks

The Knowledge Specialist will carry out the following tasks:

• Help to foster knowledge sharing across URA teams and URA host institutions;
• Facilitate organisation of knowledge sharing activities as part of the Reformers Hub  knowledge sharing mechanism (trainings, workshops, events, among others);
• Ensure continuous identification, capturing, validation, formatting, management, and sharing of critical knowledge among URA teams and URA host institutions;
• Extract high-value knowledge assets for dissemination, in close collaboration with RST and RDO experts and URA host institutions;
• Capture and organise the experiential knowledge of experts throughout URA to populate and grow the Reformers Hub repository of valuable and sharable knowledge assets;
• Interview internal and external stakeholders (RSTs and RDO, URA host institutions, international donors, among others) to extract mission-critical experiences and lessons learned for further sharing, such as management and operational knowledge, experience from reform design and delivery, sector specific knowledge;
• Conduct research and make research informed proposals for additional Reformers Hub knowledge sharing products and tools, drawing on both global and local experiences in the implementation of knowledge sharing mechanisms;
• Contribute to the content of the Reformers Hub knowledge sharing platform, including supporting the platform’s development in its testing phase as needed;
• Populate the attributes and qualifiers of knowledge assets to ensure good findability on the Reformers Hub platform;
• Design and manage online capturing activities, including surveys, blogs, e-discussions, among others;
• Provide event facilitation for activities organised under the auspices of the Reformers Hub as required;
• Conduct regular evaluation activities aimed at assessing the results achieved through the Reformers Hub knowledge sharing mechanism;
• Model active knowledge sharing throughout the URA programme and with partners;
• Develop trusted relationships with a variety of stakeholders within the URA programme and its host institutions.

 Profile

• A degree in journalism, English, knowledge management, instructional design, learning, public policy, communications or a related field;
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in roles with strong focus on analysing, synthesising and summarising information in the form of clear, concise and user-friendly information/knowledge products, acquired through a career in journalism, knowledge management, education, public policy or a related field;
• Excellent communication and listening skills, demonstrated through relevant professional experience;
• Excellent interview skills to ensure optimal documentation and extraction of knowledge derived from personal experiences;
• Ability to digest information and analyse, synthesise, and summarise it in clear and concise ways;
• Solid writing (in both Ukrainian and English) skills to process captured experiences in a way that they can be communicated or disseminated;
• Ability to quickly develop a sound understanding of the programme’s knowledge needs and assets;
• Ability to identify and collect experiences that are deemed worth sharing;
• Motivation to share knowledge, successful practices, and lessons learned and interest in improving the effectiveness of the programme;
• Ability and self-discipline to systematically reflect on past assignments to continuously improve;
• Sound time-management skills to adequately balance operational and knowledge work;
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate others to contribute to and make use of the knowledge and learning offerings of the programme.

More details in the TOR attached.  Knowledge Specialist_ToR_Reformers Hub_updated

If interested in the position, please submit a CV and cover letter (in English only) to Andrea Garaiova at: [email protected] and Yuliya Anikeeva at: [email protected] by 17.00 Kyiv time 25 January 2021.