Knowledge Management Specialist

About this role

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) seeks a Knowledge Management Specialist for its Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Dar es Salaam. The specialist ensures evidence, data, and implementation experience are captured, translated, and used to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes and support scale and learning. Core duties include developing a knowledge management and knowledge translation strategy aligned with national and global learning agendas. The post holder works with IHI's monitoring, evaluation, and learning team, the Ministry of Health, and other partners to capture implementation and systems experience across program sites.

The specialist translates complex data and evaluations into clear, actionable products for government, program, clinical, donor, and community audiences. They support decision focused briefs, dashboards, scorecards, and synthesis products, and work with the Program Manager and Technical Leads so learning informs adaptation and scale. Duties also include establishing a community of practice, facilitating reflection workshops, producing policy briefs and case studies, and coordinating dissemination through national platforms. Required qualifications include a master's degree in public health, communications, multimedia, or a related field, plus knowledge management, knowledge translation, data visualisation, strategic communications, and digital media strategy skills.

Candidates need strong synthesis, writing, creative, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement abilities; understanding of learning health systems, adaptive management, and evidence use; and capacity to work across technical, policy, and implementation teams. English and Kiswahili proficiency are required, along with two to five years of relevant experience in knowledge management, learning, or evidence to policy roles in health programs. Demonstrated experience with maternal, newborn, and child health or health systems programs and with government, implementing, and donor partners is also required. Preferred experience includes a proven ability to translate complex evidence into decision focused outputs.

The post is full time, and IHI offers competitive pay under its salary scales. IHI is an equal opportunity employer. The source gives no closing date or application instructions.