JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
World Relief Rwanda wishes to recruit a qualified and well-experienced candidate to fill the position of Project Manager (PM), SCOPE COVID-19. The job description and other requirements for this position are as follows:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Project Manager (PM)
Reports to: Country Director, World Relief Rwanda
Location: Rwanda
Duration: 12 Months
About World Relief & Project: World Relief is implementing a USAID funded SCOPE COVID seeking to provide COVID-19 prevention and preparedness activities at a community level. The project will inform, engage and empower the public through timely and consistent provision of key messages on COVID-19 as well as disseminating SBCC messages around COVID vaccines at the community and faith institution level. The project is funded for 12 months. World Relief, therefore invites applications from interested and qualified candidates to fill the following vacant position.
World Relief is an International Christian NGO working in Health, Economic Development, Disaster response, and Refugee resettlement. World Relief’s mission is empowering local churches to serve the most vulnerable.
Position Summary: The SCOPE COVID Project Manager is responsible for the implementation of all project activities. In that role, she or he will be responsible for the successful oversight and management of all in-country operations, execution, and reporting of SCOPE COVID. The Project Manager will supervise the M&E activities of the project. The Project Manager will have significant collaboration with World Relief Baltimore Office Central SCOPE Staff, specifically Technical Officer/Chief of Party. She or he will participate in nurturing collaborative relationships with USAID Mission, the Ministry of Health, local NGO partners, and other project stakeholders.
Essential Functions:
Operations management
- Ensure that all country-specific targets of projects are met accurately and in a timely manner.
- Liaise with the country M&E team of field supervisors to ensure they are meeting the requirements of their roles. Provide consistent performance management and coaching of reports. Support hiring process of new staff as needed.
- Prioritize a diverse and healthy working environment, exemplify Christian values among your team.
- With a dotted line of responsibility to the Project Accountant, ensure that all project operations take place within the allotted annual project budget
- Lead reporting activities through the project cycle – start-up, implementation, and close-out.
Project Work-planning
- With collaboration with SCOPE project management team, outline in-country project implementation plan and timeline and Yearly Work Plan.
- Provide inputs and expertise to US based staff of local conditions, needs and obstacles. This is imperative specifically during COVID-19 when international travel is prohibited and HQ support and monitoring in the country is limited.
Implementation support
- Provide consistent field support to project implementation sites. Ensure that teams have the resources they need to work efficiently. Troubleshoot and provide solutions for problems that may arise throughout the project timeline.
- Coordinate team training.
- Elevate staff needs or resourcing needs expeditiously to avoid project bottlenecks.
- Provide overall project quality oversight.
Relationships with local stakeholders:
- Serve as secondary level project contact to local partners, with direction from Technical Program Officer, CoP, and Country Director.
- In all interactions, strengthen local partnerships with other agencies, the Ministry of Health, and local level staff.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Master’s Degree in Health and Risk Communication, MSc. Epidemiology, Master’s Degree in Public Health, MSc. Infection Prevention and Control or relevant sector required. Additional experience may substitute for some education.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant field-based experience in coordinating or managing projects addressing pandemics or outbreaks.
- Experience in public health emergency management, epidemic surveillance, preparedness, and response.
- Experience in implementing risk communication and community engagement interventions.
- Relevant grant management experience, especially for USAID is a plus.
- Partnership capacity strengthening and partnership relation management experience preferred.
- Experience working with stakeholders at national and district levels in strengthening community partnerships.
- Experience with human subject protection.
- Ability to supervise, lead and guide a diverse team working on the project.
- Ability to contribute to the development of technical proposals, a plus.
- Experience analyzing data and contributing to evaluation reports.
- Excellent written and oral English skills.
- Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
Personal Skills:
- Commitment to World Relief’s values.
- Critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make a sound judgments.
- Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with local stakeholders. Representation abilities.
- Ability to contribute to written reports
- Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented
- Attention to details, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities.
Physical demands
- Willingness to travel and supervise program activities outside of Kigali.
How to Apply:
Please submit a motivation letter, copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 2 names of referees, and a church recommendation from your Pastor or Priest by March 26th, 2021 to World Relief Rwanda Office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be notified for test or interview.
Done at Kigali on 20th March, 2021
Jacqueline Mukashema.
Director of Administration and Finance
