Knowledge,Learning & Research Specialist

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected. 

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. 

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries. 

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Knowledge, Learning and Research Specialist plays a critical role in strengthening Plan International Tanzania’s impact, influence, and accountability by ensuring that high-quality evidence, learning and research are systematically generated, used and shared across programmes and with external stakeholders. The role exists to enhance a strong culture of learning and evidence-based decision making within Plan International Tanzania, supporting adaptive programming and continuous improvement across priority thematic areas including child protection, girl’s rights, youth economics empowerment, gender equality, climate resilience and humanitarian response. The role will lead systematic generation, documentation, and synthesis and institutionalizing strategic influence by strengthening knowledge sharing and evidence-based decision making, program quality, evidence-based policy advocacy within organization and beyond. This position will have close collaboration with colleagues from Programme implementation, MERL, Advisors, Policy and Communication, to bolster knowledge management and the utilization of evidence and research to foster innovation. 

DIMENSION OF THE ROLE

• Ensure evidence from programmes, evaluations, and research is translated into practical learning that improves programme quality and outcomes for children and young people, especially girls.
• Lead the knowledge management practices and support PIT and its partners evidence and knowledge generation activities. 
• Support the culture of knowledge sharing and organizational learning and the uptake of organizational standards for knowledge sharing.
• Support the program team and partners to identify, synthesize program data, document and disseminate lessons learned from program implementation.
• Identify appropriate “learning agenda” topics and design case studies, rapid assessments and other appropriate methods of study and documentation to articulate ongoing learning.
• Build the capacity of project team members, and partners on the documentation of evidence and lessons.  
• Provide periodic updates on and “snapshots” of implementation learning through development of a series of “rapid-cycle learning briefs,” highlighting what is working.

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Location: Dar es Salaam

Reports to: MERL Manager

Level: 14

Closing Date:18th February, 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk. 

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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