Job Title: Strategic Learning Coordinator Assistant (Mogadishu) – 1 National Position

Organizational Description:
AVSI is an international NGO with headquarters in Italy, which has been active in Kenya since 1986 and In Somalia since 2020. AVSI is a prominent provider of development and humanitarian assistance around the world and brings strong management and innovative strategies to programs in various sectors including; Agriculture and Food Security, Child Protection, Education, Energy, Health, Livelihood, Economic Strengthening, Wash, Vocational Training & Job Creation, Health, Protection including child protection, and Environment.

Programme Background:
AVSI Foundation is launching a poverty-alleviation project under its Resilience Food Security Activity framework in the areas of Mogadishu/Banadir and Afgoye. The project is centered on the Graduation Approach, a multistep, time-bound program designed to bring extremely poor and vulnerable households out of poverty in a sustainable and resilient manner. The interventions are hence planned to roll out in a set of underserved IDP and host settlements of Mogadishu/Banadir and the Afgoye area. While this approach has never been applied to this cale in Somalia, AVSI has built its expertise in Graduation after successfully applying this approach in countries like Kenya and Uganda. The project is expected to run from 2024 to 2029.

Job Purpose

The Strategic Learning Coordinator Assistant will provide support to a Strategic Learning Coordinator in implementing and managing strategic learning initiatives within an organization.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with all staff to ensure Collaboration Learning and Adaptation (CLA) principles are applied, including scenario planning, theory of change use and refinement, and on-going pause-and-reflect opportunities
• Ensure the activity includes active, intentional, and adaptive learning within and across components of the graduation approach and play a critical role in incorporating refinement activities and learning into implementation
• Improve community engagement, peer-to-peer learning, knowledge capture, sharing and application, activity-based capacity strengthening, and evidence and data utilization in support of adaptive management
• Ensure robust stakeholder coordination by activity staff with entities including local partners, US government entities, host country government, international donors, multilateral organizations, and private sector investments
• Develop the knowledge management and communications functions of the program, ensuring overall quality control and responsiveness of these efforts to the technical teams’ needs; facilitate integration of these efforts throughout the project and to external stakeholders & audiences

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in evaluation, development studies, economics, or relevant field is required; master’s degree is desired.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience working with multi-sectoral development programs.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating learning and knowledge sharing processes and establishing and managing dynamic feedback systems to capture experiential learning and unintended consequences.
• Familiarity with USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach; experience incorporating CLA approaches into large, complex programs is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, survey design and implementation, and statistical data analysis.
• Relevant experience in food and nutrition-security, graduation approach, public health, or related fields is desired.
• Direct knowledge and experience with livelihoods programs in Somalia.
• Fluency in Somali (Banaadir dialect preferred) and English is required.