Project Background:

The Honduras Local Governance (HLG) Activity works to enhance basic service delivery provision through increased citizen influence and improved governance in 35 partner municipalities with high migration and violence rates in both urban and rural areas. The Activity ensures that health, education, and other critical services are expanded, deepened, and made sustainable as part of a holistic effort to promote local governance. 

HLG prioritizes and enhances strengths in each partner municipality and in the local system. In coordination with the municipality and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), HLG develops customized Municipal Action Plans. The key characteristics of HLG’s approach are citizen-centered, evidence-based, flexible, and localized. This is achieved through the capacity development of local government and service providers while continuing to strengthen the essential capacity of civil society groups, local governments, and service providers to provide citizens with improved services. In accordance with the USAID/Honduras Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) 2020–2025, the U.S. Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America, July 2021 (RCS), and the Collaborative Migration Management Strategy July 2021 (CMMS),the Activity focuses on high-outmigration municipalities. HLG’s overall approach, methodologies, and interventions will aim to build the “rootedness” of the population in target municipalities to reduce irregular migration. The Activity will also contribute to the reduction of irregular migration and reintegration of migrant returnees while adopting Positive Youth Development (PYD) approaches within the HLG context.

Role’s Purpose

The HLG Activity seeks to hire an attention-to-detail Knowledge Management (KM) Officer with excellent writing skills to join its Office in Tegucigalpa. The KM Officer is responsible for supporting the completion of all HLG deliverables, including but not limited to ad-hoc USAID requests; reports; and work plans. S/he is a key link with the Technical, Grants, and Monitoring and Evaluation (MEL) teams to ensure that technical activities are accurately documented. The KM Officer will assist in the gathering of information and in the writing of various documents, including identifying and troubleshooting information gaps and areas that need to be strengthened in reports. 

Objectives and duties:

As part of the HLG Activity, the Knowledge Management Officer will work under the supervision of the Knowledge Management Specialist.  The Knowledge Management Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Support in the timely and accurate completion of the Activity’s bi-monthly notes, ad-hoc taskers; reports; work plans, and other deliverables.
• Follow up on Work Plan commitments and conduct follow-up as needed with the Activity’s technical team to gather missing or incomplete information on technical implementation. 
• Support in responding to questions from USAID on reports, as well as create plans and timelines for periodic reporting processing. 
• Support to critically review reports for missing information or context, based on frequently asked questions from USAID and requirements of the deliverable. 
• Coordinate with Technical, Grants, and MEL teams at the central and regional level to confirm information for reporting and implementation advances. 
• Provide translation and editing support for deliverables and annexes, including ad-hoc requests from USAID as well as Activity reports.
• Prepare meeting agendas, document meeting notes, and draft concise post-meeting summaries (bullets).
• Review and follow up on the compliance of the records map in Sharepoint
• Other tasks as assigned by the KM Specialist, Communications and Knowledge Management Director, and/or Chief of Party.

Minimum Qualifications and experience:

• University studies in Communications, Journalism, or a related field. 
• One to three years of relevant experience.
• Experience in writing, editing and/or translating documents, especially reports, strongly preferred.
• Previous experience with USAID activities is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of USAID regulations, policies, and procedures preferred.
• Excellent written communication skills in both English and Spanish.
• Fluency in Spanish and English required.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage and complete tasks on time without significant oversight. 
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams is strongly preferred.
• Good interpersonal and diplomatic skills, including cultural sensitivity and political awareness

Reporting

This position reports to the Knowledge Management Specialist.

Grade

This position is in the FSN 7 of our Salary Scale.

Send your application no later than November 8, 2024, before 1:00 pm, to the address [email protected], accompanying a Letter of Interest in which you express your motivations for applying and indicating the name of the Position to which you apply.

This position is subject to the availability of funds from the Donor. Applying for this position does not commit DAI to grant it.