WWF BOLIVIA
CALL FOR WORK
(Work base: Santa Cruz) |
Job Title: Knowledge Management, Communication and Engagement Specialist
Reports to: Project Coordinator
Date: November 4, 2022
World
Wildlife Fund (WWF), one of the world's leading conservation
organizations, is seeking a Knowledge Management, Communication and
Engagement Specialist for our office in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. We are
looking to hire a professional who is passionate about conservation,
creative and dedicated, always willing to push boundaries, a great team
player, and an overall good human being who understands and appreciates
the value of leading by example.
We are guided by WWF's core values:
COURAGE
We demonstrate courage through our actions, work for change where it is
needed and inspire people and institutions to address the greatest
threats to nature and the planet's future which is our home.
COLLABORATION We produce impact at the level of the challenges we face through the power of collective action and innovation.
INTEGRITY
We live the principles we ask others to live by. We act with integrity,
accountability, and transparency, and rely on facts and science to
guide us and ensure we learn and evolve.
RESPECT
We respect the voices and knowledge of the people and communities we
serve, and work to ensure a sustainable future for everyone.
Context of the call
Voices
for Just Climate Action (VCA is a climate action program implemented by
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), SouthSouthNorth (SSN), Akina Mama wa Afrika
(AMwA), Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Avina Foundation (AVINA) and
Hivos, in strategic collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The VCA program aims to ensure that by 2025, civil society and
underrepresented groups have a more participatory role as creators,
facilitators, and advocates of innovative and inclusive climate
solutions. Inclusion of these groups is crucial for an effective and
lasting climate response, as the climate crisis is a social challenge
that contains ethical and human rights aspects that occur alongside
inequalities tied to gender, socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity,
nationality, physical ability, sexual orientation, and age.
The
program's overall approach is to work with civil society to build broad
social support for locally designed climate solutions through an
inclusive, rights-based approach.
The program's strategic interventions focus on the following three pillars:
- Mutual capacity building for the joint creation of alternative climate solutions at scale.
- Agenda setting and mobilization for climate action through expanded narratives (storytelling, data, networks).
- Advocacy in decision-making spaces so that policies and financial flows respond to local climate needs.
In
this context, SSN, WWF and AVINA, through the VCA Alliance in Bolivia,
seek to incorporate a Knowledge Management, Communication and Engagement
Specialist to support the VCA program partners and their local allies.
Main responsibilities
- Coordinate
the monitoring and evaluation the activities and results of the VCA
program in Bolivia (Outcome Harvesting methodology).
- Systematize the processes, results, and impacts of the VCA program in Bolivia.
- Manage the process of knowledge generation and support engagement within the VCA program in Bolivia.
- Manage
and take advantage of the collective knowledge generated in VCA to
promote climate action mobilization processes at the national, regional,
and global levels.
- Follow up communication between the regional VCA team in Bolivia and the global VCA Alliance.
- Contribute to the development of strategic communication products for just climate action.
- Lead
the development of communication (traditional and digital) and advocacy
capacities among local VCA partners in Bolivia, including tools for
development of storytelling and mapping of local and regional media
ecosystems.
Important Definitions
Knowledge
management: The explicit and systematic management of knowledge assets
for the purpose of creating value and meeting tactical and strategic
requirements. It consists of processes, systems, initiatives and
strategies that enable the identification, creation, storage, sharing
and utilization of vital individual and collective knowledge resources;
whether tacit or explicit.
Knowledge
brokering: Developing relationships and networks with and among
knowledge producers and users to facilitate knowledge sharing and
develop evidence-based decision-making capacity. Design, engage and/or
influence processes for the purpose of knowledge capture and/or
knowledge co-production.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
The Alliance encourages applications from professionals with the following capabilities:
- Social
and/or environmental science background, with demonstrable experience
in communications, knowledge management and/or monitoring and
evaluation.
- Ability to identify key aspects of documents and summarize them.
- Ability to relate and interact with different stakeholder groups.
- At least 5 years of work experience in:
• Monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs
• Knowledge management
• Communications and storytelling
• systematization of conservation project results. - Experience with inclusive conservation, gender, youth, governance will be valued
- High level of oral and written English (essential).
- Good office automation skills (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.).
- Excellent ability to work in a team.
- Availability to travel to rural areas into the country and abroad.
If
you wish to apply for this position and meet the requirements described
above, please send a cover letter indicating your motivation for this
position and your salary expectations (essential) attaching your CV, indicating 3 work references until November 14th, 2022 to: rh@wwfbolivia.org with the subject: Specialist in Knowledge Management, Communication and Engagement.
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