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Job Title:      Knowledge
Manager in Access To Justice

Organization: Avocats
Sans Frontieres (ASF)

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Gross monthly salary: Between €2,208.10 and €2,781.80

About US:

Avocats Sans
Frontieres (ASF) is a development aid non-governmental organization whose work
focuses on giving access to justice and protecting the fundamental rights of
all people with a focus on most marginalized groups.

Job Summary:  The Knowledge Manager in Access to Justice
coordinates the Monitoring and Evaluation processes within the ASF country
offices of Uganda and Burundi. He/she is responsible to manage and capitalize
learning acquired through project implementation and feed it back into program
and project plans. He/she is in charge of project reporting to donors,
including timely submissions and integration of lessons learnt and knowledge
gained. The Knowledge Manager in Access to Justice enjoys a high level of
autonomy. He/she reports to the Country Director Uganda & Burundi and works
in a functional link with the Coordinators of Programs (CoP), who are
responsible for the operational plans and the project officers/coordinators of
the Uganda and Burundi programs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Monitoring and
evaluation

• Acts as the focal person for the implementation of the Institutional
  M&E Device within
  programs and projects;
• Is responsible for the quality control of ASF interventions, in
  particular to ensure the
  quality and efficiency of the projects’ logical frameworks;
• Supports project officers/coordinators and partners in developing
  and implementing M&E
  systems and tools at project level;
• Supervises the consolidation of M&E data from projects and
  manages the databases of
  all projects;
• In collaboration with the CoPs, supports the evaluation, survey and
  research activities
  implemented at project level. He/she brings technical expertise on
  research and analytical processes and ensures that the results are
  integrated into learning plans, project plans and program formulation;
• Coordinates the research-action in Access to Justice under the
  Burundi programme.

Knowledge and
Learning

• Acts as the focal point for the development and the implementation
  of the Learning and Expertise policies within ASF in collaboration with
  other ASF country offices;
• Capitalizes lessons learnt and knowledge gained through project
  activities and ensures their integration into program formulation, project
  planning and evaluation processes;
• Creates and facilitates spaces for learning within and outside
  projects and ensures the diffusion of knowledge gained.

Grant Management

• Coordinates reporting processes (intermediary and final) across all
  projects, integrates learning into reports and ensures quality control of
  all reports before submission;
• Ensures the timely submission of reports and the implementation and
  respect of donor specific policies and procedures;
• Centralizes and archives grants’ contracting documents;
• Ensure that projects’ grant agreements, reports, amendment and any
  other relevant document as pertain the grant administration are archived.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor of Arts or Master’s in Law or
  Social Sciences
• Three years of relevant experience in project M&E, Knowledge
  management and grant management in the sectors of Human rights, Governance
  and/or Rule of Law
• Professional experience in the African Great Lakes’ region is an
  asset
• Strong communication and representation skills
• Leadership abilities and ability to work in a team
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Commitment to the ASF mandate
• Ability to work in multicultural environments
• High level of computer literacy (Office package)
• Languages: Fluency
  in spoken and written French and English is required

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified
and interested applicants should send a Cover letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae
to job@asf.be and to the Country Director at rravet@asf.be with the reference
“A2J Knowledge Manager” in the subject heading.

Because of limited
Human Resources, only preselected candidates will be contacted by ASF.

Thank you for your
understanding.

Deadline: 20^th October 2019

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