National Consultant for Documentation and Knowledge Management, WGF Programme

The National Consultant for Documentation and Knowledge Management will support the WGF programme by strengthening documentation frameworks, capturing institutional knowledge, and demonstrating programme impact. The consultant will coordinate with field offices and thematic teams to ensure capacity-building initiatives, especially disability inclusion, are executed and documented.

Responsibilities

• Support WGF implementing partners to strengthen their reporting and documentation capabilities.
• Ensure all planned training sessions, particularly disability inclusion initiatives, are successfully conducted and followed through with comprehensive documentation.
• Identify and document key strategy shifts in the operational strategy of implementing partners, analyzing how these adaptations influenced WGF Phase 3 programme delivery and resilience.
• Evaluate and document IP-sub-grantee relationships, the effectiveness of the support provided to them, gaps, challenges and the tangible results of localization efforts across the programme footprint.
• Design and facilitate structured lessons learned workshops under the guidance of the Programme Management Specialist.
• Capture compelling case stories with the support of the communications specialist that effectively demonstrate the programme's qualitative and quantitative impact.
• Systematically organize, manage, and compile all necessary program data and documentation into cohesive, high-quality information packages.
• Serve as a liaison, working closely with WGF team, field offices and thematic teams including M&E to align reporting with final-year programme goals.
• Collaborate effectively with the WGF Programme Analyst to facilitate new implementation work plans for partners, ensuring operational consistency across the programme.
• Provide technical assistance and operational guidance for any additional supplementary interventions or specialized tasks within the WGF portfolio as assigned by the Programme Management Specialist.

Requirements

• An Advance university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in law, human rights, GBV, social sciences or a related field is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant and progressive experience, including experience in programme management.
• Knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality issues, particularly GBV, including relevant international human rights standards and instruments.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills, good coordination, communication, international and motivational skills.
• Results-based programme management experience, with particular focus on strategic planning and capacity building.
• Experience of reporting and documentation.
• Excellent computer skill (Windows environment, MS office applications including Word, Excel and Power-point).
• Prior working experience with UN agencies is an asset.
• Fluency in oral and written English and Myanmar is essential with ability to write clearly and concisely and to compose correspondence and documents in both languages.
• Knowledge of local languages in UNFPA target states and regions is an asset.
• Experience in application of conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” approaches in the programming

Skills

• Programme Management
• Strategic Planning
• Capacity Building
• Documentation and Reporting
• Knowledge Management
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Gender Equality
• Gender-Based Violence Awareness
• International Human Rights Standards
• Conflict Sensitivity
• Do No Harm Principle
• Windows Environment
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Strategic Thinking
• Coordination
• Communication
• Disability Inclusion

Languages

English, Myanmar