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Knowledge Mobilization Manager

Date: Date: April 2012
Reports to (Job Title): Reports to: Associate Director, SIG@Waterloo and WISIR
Jobs Reporting (Job Titles):

Jobs Reporting: - Contracted Evaluation Specialist; Program Assistant (communications); Student staff (1-4)

Location: location: Waterloo campus, EV 3

Primary Purpose

The Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Manager plays a strategic professional role in leading to ensure accessible and effective knowledge mobilization about social innovation. This KM Manager collaborates with the Chair in Social Innovation, the Associate Director and the SiG@Waterloo research team as well as the Education Programs Manager to actively explore or create live and online knowledge transfer/exchange and professional development opportunities. This position requires in-depth knowledge of concepts such as systems, complexity and resilience, understanding and experience with education initiatives, ability to work in a high functioning work environment with multiple demands and changing priorities, a keen interest in continuous learning and dissemination, experience identifying innovative solutions to complex problems, outstanding capacity for partnership development and strong skills related to real and virtual communication and evaluation. Key objectives focus upon significantly developing and coordinating design, delivery and assessment of knowledge mobilization strategies to enhance understanding and build capacity for systems approaches and complex problem solving within audiences, which include:

The KM Manager will work with SiG staff, students, faculty, other internal UW staff as well as various external partners to support the delivery and ongoing development for and across these key SiG@Waterloo and/or SiG partnership initiatives:

Key Accountabilities:

Participates in strategic planning for KM plans within/across SiG@Waterloo initiatives and in collaboration with the national SiG partnership

  • Participates in SiG weekly (Waterloo) and  quarterly (National) meetings to keep abreast of KM resources and needs and keep the SiG Principals informed on KM matters
  • Participates in the development of long term vision, planning, strategy design
  • mplements and evaluates the annual unit and SiG partnership plans and priorities for KM

Responsible for the implementation and achievement of Annual KM Plans.

  • Ensures the unit’s and partnership’s Annual Plans are delivered efficiently, highly effectively and on time 
  • Develops, monitors and adheres to the annual KM budget.

Ensures the collaborative delivery of KM resources to identified strategic audiences to:

  • Share knowledge about social innovation from a whole systems perspective
  • Provide real world examples and cases of social innovation in Canada
  • Encourage skill-building and action that incorporates new tools and processes for social innovation
  • Support the creation on vibrant networks within and across sectors to support social innovation

Oversees all communications promoting KM resources at SiG@Waterloo,  as well as contributing to the national communications plan for SiG KM, including, but not limited to:

  • Supervising staff to produce monthly E-Newsletter and collaborates on SiG national communications
  • Websites: ensures the relevancy and accuracy of the Waterloo sites and collaborates with the National
  • Brochures: collaborates to develop hardcopy materials to serve as our KM overview and intro
  • ser Surveys; develops and ensures delivery of timely utilization focused evaluation processes

Ensures an effective utilization-focused evaluation plan is implemented, shared and used:

  • Oversees evaluation staff to most productively meet evaluation goals and objectives
  • Coaches, trains and develops evaluation staff to assure growth and development of those individuals
  • Leads to disseminate regular assessments of accessibility, usefulness, and impact of KM resources

Represents Senior SiG@Waterloo and SiG National leaders;

  • Liaises externally with professional, community and government organizations, and agencies on behalf of the organization through oral presentations, meetings and teleconferences
  • Leads cross-sector meetings and design sessions
  • Supports, communicates, and reinforces the mission, values, philosophy, and culture of the SiG national partnership as it relates to knowledge mobilization and partnership development
  • Writes and prepares reports to be shared with internal and external stakeholders on highly specialized material pertaining to the Knowledge Mobilzation initiative

 

 

Position Requirements

Education:

Education:   Completion of a Bachelor’s degree with 2 years experience or 5-7 years related professional experience is required. Graduate degree is preferred; would be an academic area related to leadership, innovation, education, community development, organizational development and/or social change.

Experience:

Experience: Professional experience in both a university setting and within other sectors is a definite asset; especially with adult learning, meeting facilitation, cross-sector communication, collaborative program development, professional event coordination, and evaluation processes

Technical:

MS Word Excel PowerPoint Other
word: Basic excel: Basic powerpoint: Basic other: Web text and graphics editing software

Nature and Scope

Interpersonal Skills:

Level of Responsibility:

Decision-Making Authority:

Physical and Sensory Demands:

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