Вакансія: Collaboration, Lеarning, and Adaptation (CLA) Manager, Kyiv

The purpose of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Ukraine Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Activity is to strengthen the resilience of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure from cyberattacks by establishing trusted collaboration between key cybersecurity stakeholders in the government, private sector, academia, and civil society. The activity aims to achieve this goal by implementing the following activity components:

1: Strengthen the cybersecurity enabling environment

2: Develop Ukraine’s cybersecurity workforce

3: Build a resilient cybersecurity industry

Together the above components will improve short-term cybersecurity resilience in Ukraine and establish a solid foundation for long-term cybersecurity independence and leadership. Lessons and best practices from key critical infrastructure sectors will extend to all parts of the public sector, as well as to the private sector and civil society.

About the job

In collaboration with the Activity MEL Manager and the technical team, namely the Chief Of Party (COP), Senior Cybersecurity Policy Advisor, technical leads, cross-functional unit managers, and Home Office (HO) technical support team, the Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) Manager will engage project stakeholders in collecting and analyzing results and lessons emerging from program implementation. The CLA Manager will utilize this knowledge to develop a comprehensive learning agenda to further enhance programming and inform program adaptation and sequencing. The CLA Manager will capture how learning has resulted in adaptation and how successful adaptations have been.  

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Review performance of the project’s activities and partners (Grants, Subcontracts & Activities) and develop lessons learned and recommended adaptations for these activities
• Compile and document lessons learned from the project’s activities that are of significant/strategic value for informing USAID via project reports and prepare success stories
• Provide a draft of the above lessons learned to the project’s COP and technical team members for review as needed
• Develop learning agenda and lead learning and adaptation component in periodic Pause and Reflect sessions
• Assist technical leads with developing learning capture tools related to technical interventions, including toolkits, quick reference guides, memos, flow-charts, one-pagers, etc.
• Create and manage a learning harvesting log or similar tool to help technical leads articulate the hypotheses they would test, how they would carry out pilot tests as proof of concept, how they would learn from those tests, and with whom they would share the information/results.
• Create and manage an adaptive management log that houses the Activity’s response to new information and unanticipated obstacles to implementation under each component/cross-functional unit as well as cross-cutting areas of gender, communications, grants, operations, etc. The tool will also track strategies that teams have taken to overcome unexpected challenges or capitalize on new opportunities.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree plus five years of relevant work experience; Master’s degree in relevant field preferred
• Previous Ukraine or Eastern European work experience on CLA or similar learning and adaption approach required
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong professional skills including- communication, coordination, managing multiple tasks, analysis, problem-solving required
• Fluency in Ukrainian and English required, knowledge of Russian language is a plus

WE OFFER

Contract length: 12-months employment agreement with a possibility of extension

Salary Level: We offer a competitive market-based salary level for candidates with relevant experience.

Duty station: Kyiv

Start date: ASAP

Application process

All applicants must send a cover letter and updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English to [email protected]

Closing date for applications: May 31, 2020 COB

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