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The Johns Hopkins University · 9 hours ago

R-LEAD Knowledge Management Director - 116574

Baltimore, MD

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$87K/yr - $153K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead R-LEAD's KM activities independently, including,

Envision, design, and initiate new program activities according to client's needs and overall contract objectives.

Produce and edit documents, work plans, reports, and presentations.

Lead budget development and resource allocation.

Oversee staffing, roles, and level of effort to meet program goals.

Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between program, finance, and administrative staff to ensure team functioning to meet program goals.

Facilitate and model frequent, open, ongoing communication with program team members in all locations (offsite, in headquarters, and internationally).

Lead engagement with internal and external partners.

Ensure adherence to JHU, CCP, and donor rules, regulations and policies

Lead process to use data to inform strategies, work plans, and program direction.

Put in place tools, processes, and structures to ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet R-LEAD's program goals.

Serve on the R-LEAD project management team along with other directors from the prime contractor.

Design and manage effective team structure to meet R-LEADs KM goals.

Supervise, coach, and mentor R-LEAD staff independently.

Orient and train new staff members.

Conduct regular (at least quarterly) check-ins and annual performance reviews with all supervisees.

Identify and recommend appropriate professional development opportunities for supervisees.

Ensure effective coaching, mentoring, and supervision of all staff on your team.

Provide coaching and mentoring to promote continued growth and improvement among supervisees and other staff.

Oversee and ensure the quality of work produced by KM R-LEAD staff or team. Develop processes, tools, and routines that ensure the quality of work.

Operate with compliance to all JHU supervisory policies.

Oversee high-level R-LEAD KM strategy design and implementation independently.

Lead and build staff capacity in technical work, including strategies, toolkits, needs assessments, etc.

Generate and envision new activities, ideas, frameworks, and strategies that further high-level goals.

Use, develop, and model tools, processes, and best practices, including colleague review, to ensure the highest quality of all products and documents.

Provide information to others about the quality of work. This includes raising concerns about errors, omissions, and poor-quality products to the staff member responsible for that work and requesting revision of low-quality work.

In collaboration with the research and evaluation division, strategically plan for research, monitoring, and evaluation activities as appropriate.

Develop strategies and frameworks for knowledge dissemination, keeping USAID staff and partners updated.

Coordinate content curation across USAID to support decision-making, learning, and adaptive management.

Establish feedback mechanisms (e.g., portfolio reviews) for continuous improvement.

Ensure services and products address DEIA principles and are inclusive.

Monitor and analyze knowledge management metrics and leverage new technologies like NLP to enhance processes.

Supervise/oversee STTA of junior staff independently.

Lead in-country STTA independently, including training, workshops, and program support.

Demonstrate technical expertise in KM and strengthen capacity in others.

Demonstrate high-level technical communication, including writing reports, creating and giving presentations, and facilitating trainings or group discussions.

Ensure excellence in programs, products, and deliverables to meet program goals.

Initiate and lead center-wide initiatives independently, including lunch and learns, communities of practice, etc.

Lead proposal development (technical, budget, coordination) independently.

Lead strategic partnership development independently.

Lead donor cultivation independently.

Contribute to global technical knowledge.

Represent JHU and CCP at relevant external meetings and events, including delivering technical presentations, networking, relationship building, and initiating and following through with opportunities for collaboration.

Professionally engage and collaborate with other programs across the Center.

Recognize and address factors that might strategically impact a program or the Center and lead the implementation of solutions.

Proactively seek opportunities to expand leadership and management skills by completing at least two JHU training courses related to job duties per year. For supervisors, this should include completing CCP HR's recommended core courses in the JHU Supervisory Training Program within two years of taking on official supervisory duties.

Request or initiate quarterly check-in meetings with the supervisor to assess performance, strengths, and areas for improvement in your current position and establish professional goals.

Identify opportunities for bringing new skills into the Center, including attending JHU courses, seminars, conferences, other external training, etc.

Qualification

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Knowledge ManagementProgram ManagementKM ToolsData VisualizationOrganizational LearningCapacity DevelopmentStrategic Partnership DevelopmentProposal DevelopmentMonitoringTechnical CommunicationForeign Language AbilitiesNutrition ExperienceFood Security ExperienceAgriculture Project ExperienceInternational ExperienceMentoring Skills

Required

Master's Degree in a related field.

Six years related program management experience in public health or medicine.

Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.