Technical Advisor – Documentation Job Vacancy – Development Links Consult (DLC)

Organisation: Development Links Consult (DLC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Development
Links Consult (DLC) is a development management consultancy firm duly
incorporated in Uganda as a Limited Liability Company. They would like to
recruit for a valuable client.
Job Summary: The Technical Advisor – Documentation will provide
support grantees to extract learning, share and use it to improve practice in
programs for prevention of violence against children. The Technical Advisor
will ensure that all project documents are of excellent technical quality and
contribute significantly to national, regional and global learning.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • The Technical Advisor will develop a learning
    strategy with each grantee and across grantees which gives more
    concentration to grantees’ role in learning process and evaluates the
    impact of using learning to improve practice.
  • Set cross-grantee learning strategy
  • Support grantees document learning for first
    convening, and synthesise findings for large audience convening
  • Help grantees build learning on first
    convening outputs
  • Support the import of knowledge about social
    norms, prevention, resilience, community-based protection systems to the
    grantees; and the expert of lessons learned to wider stakeholders
  • The Technical Advisor will report to the
    Executive Director of the client organisation and will be expected to
    network and share learning with grantees as well as the Project Advisory
    Committee.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s
    degree in Mass Communication and a degree/post graduate diploma in child
    rights or any relevant field.
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in a
    similar role with a bi-lateral, multi -lateral organisation, Government or
    NGO.
  • The Technical Advisor must be knowledgeable
    about current research on violence against children and should be skilled
    in applying the research findings to learning about a variety of VAC
    conditions.
  • Excellent writing/editing skills with the
    ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling
    manner.
  • Good working knowledge of print layout/design
    and web design
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal
    communication skills
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of the East
    African and global Child Rights context.
  • Previous experience in using storytelling in
    knowledge management
  • Ability to work well with people from diverse
    backgrounds and cultures
  • Ability to work as part of a team and in
    partnership with other stakeholders
  • Ability to work independently
  • Fluency in English, both verbal and written
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send a covering
letter of no more than two pages and updated Curriculum Vitae (maximum 4 pages)
detailing qualifications and work experience to date as a single document,
including your salary expectation for this role. The document should be written
in English. Applications should be forwarded via email only to recruitment@devptlinks.org
Deadline: 10th June 2016.
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