Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the technical developer on the design, the structure and the functionalities of the platform;
• Collect relevant information and knowledge by sector/country/themes/hazards for population of the platform;
• Map existing resources and promote a network of partnerships for knowledge sharing including governments;
• Regional Economic Commissions, NGOs,  multilateral agencies, universities, civil society and the private sector;
• Identify and disseminate lessons learned and best practices on DRR in the region and sub-regions;
• Build comprehensive database of appropriate experts/contacts and consultants to respond to network demands;
• Maintain and adapt the platform based on the usability test’s analysis;
• Build linkages of the platform with the websites of the Regional Economic Commissions.

• Moderate the content sharing on DRR on a day to day basis;
• Ensure quality content on the platform;
• Internal and external advocacy and communications;
• Actively update platform with information/studies/reports/best practices from various stakeholders involved in DRR;
• Respond to network queries;
• Monitor the platform’s use, and measure its impact;
• Provide support for community collaboration, knowledge sharing and networking;
• Build relations with external professionals and institutions;
• Actively seek to expand the practitioner's base for the Knowledge Management platform by evolving strategies and implementation;
• Contribute to the building of a knowledge sharing culture to 'institutionalize' KM practices to facilitate the creation, sharing and utilization of knowledge among the DRR partners.

A web-based platform with centralized strategic knowledge and information concerning DRR in West and Central Africa populated with:

• 300 documents with a focus on sharing of experiences (lessons learned and best practices);
• 100 of experts contacts, covering all DRR stakeholders in the region;
• 100 project profiles with main results and lessons learnt captured;
• A thousand viewers per month with a returnee rate around 30% on the last two months of the consultancy;
• 15 registered contributors (users sharing documents on the platform).

Enhance level of knowledge and information sharing, capturing and learning in the region:

• Indicated by  the number of questions and answers shared on the platform, the number of persons who shared documents, the number of person that signed;
• Provide access to updated strategic information: Indicated by the analyse of a users’ satisfaction survey.

Apply at https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=38054