Salary
Not Disclosed
Deadline
16 Nov 2026
Posted
04 Nov 2026
Location
Dar es Salaam
Job Description
Ifakara Heath Institute (IHI), under Begining Fund Program is seeking a Senior Knowledge Management Specialist, based in Dar es Salaam office. The candidate will ensure that evidence, data, and implementation experience generated through the program are systematically captured, translated, and used to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes, inform decision-making, and enable scale, sustainability, and global learning.
The candidate will be working closely with the MEL team, the role bridges implementation, evidence, policy, and practice, ensuring that learning does not remain passive but actively shapes program adaptation, government update, and future investment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a KM/KT strategy, aligning with national and global program learning agenda.
- Working with the IHI MEL team, MoH, and other IPs to capture implementation learning, clinical insights, and systems-level experience across program-supported sites.
- Translate complex data, evaluations, and learning into clear, actionable products for different audiences (MoH, PMO-RALG, managers, clinicians, donors, communities).
- Support development of decision-focused briefs, dashboards, scorecards, and synthesis products.
- Work with the Program Manager and Technical Leads to ensure learning informs program adaptation and scale decisions.
- Work with M &E teams to translate data and MEL findings into usable knowledge.
- Synthesising lessons on institutionalisation, financing, and government ownership to strengthen systems and scale.
- Establish and support a community of practice among clinicians, managers, and implementers.
- Facilitate learning exchanges, reflection workshops, and peer-to-peer learning at national and subnational levels.
- Lead development of high-quality knowledge products, including;
- o Dashboards, story Maps, reports, policy briefs, infographics, presentations, tools, datasets, videos, blogs, news stories.
- o Case studies and implementation guides.
- o Technical summaries and visual learning products.
- Ensure products are timely, user-centred, and aligned with government priorities.
- Coordinate dissemination through national platforms and partner networks.
- Support national reviews, TGWs, and policy processes with synthesised evidence.
Requirements
- At least 2-5 years of relevant working experience in knowledge management, learning, or evidence to policy roles in health programs.
- Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale maternal, newborn, and child health or health systems programs.
- Experience working with government counterparts, implementing partners, and donor-funded initiatives.
- Proven ability to translate complex evidence into clear, decision-focused outputs.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Public Health, Communications, Multimedia, or related field.
Skills
Knowledge Management skills and Knowledge Translation skills.
Data visualisation skills.
Strategic communications leadership skills.
Digital media strategy skills.
Strong synthesis
communication
writing
and creative skills.
Understanding of learning health systems
adaptive management
and the use of evidence.
Ability to work across technical
policy
and implementation teams.
Stakeholder collaboration and engagement skills.
Strong facilitation skills.
Strong proficiency in both written and spoken English and Kiswahili.
Location