Vacancy announcement
Position Title: Project officer
Vacant positions: 1 person
Type of contract: Full Time
Working location: Kigali
Supervisor: Senior project lead
Deadline: 15th January 2024
SOS Children’s Villages in Rwanda located wishes to recruit a Project officer who will oversee and supervise the operations of SOS Children in street situation (CiSS)-Seruka project.
Context of the position:
SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent, non-governmental social development & child-focused organization. The Organization supports vulnerable children and young people in four locations of Kigali, Gicumbi, Kayonza and Nyamagabe. Through a continuum of approaches, SOS Children’s Villages in Rwanda implements various programs aimed at prevention of family separation and support to children in street situation, at risk and those who have lost parental care. As such, SOS implements a robust education program that supports vulnerable children to access quality and affordable education services. The project officer will oversee the quality standards of SOS CiSS-Seruka project and will provide advisory to senior project lead on key actions for improvement.
- Supports CiSS-Seruka senior project lead in the development of services and interventions in the frame of CiSS-Seruka project and in reintegration and family strengthening.
- Supports identification of cases of children who are at risk of losing care from their families of origin through different resources (referral, outreach, self-referral etc.).
- Liaise with the project field team and local authorities to conduct comprehensive assessment of children and families at risk of separation and those under rehabilitation
- Ensure quality of implementation and provide managerial support to the effective running of the project activities
- Support the development of effective M&E frameworks in close collaboration with the M&E staff and feed this into overall institutional reporting.
- Ensure co-ordination and adequate recording of lessons learning among partners of the project, counterpart organisations/institutions
- oversee all monitoring and evaluation for project activities, checking progress against expected outcomes and against the project’s theory of change
- Articulating lessons learned from the project and adapting the project based on these lessons learned throughout implementation
- Produce and disseminate success stories as well as related ‘impact’ films or other outputs
- Provide supervision and technical support to project staff
- Provide narrative progress reports and financial reports as per donor requirements.
- Budget tracking and Project Monitoring.
- Conduct performance quarterly check-in on staff goals.
- Building communities’ economic capacity to deal with their financial needs as key to livelihood improvement programs.
- Arranges, provides and coordinates the delivery of services to children and families in strong partnership with other service providers and in line with the family development process.
- Keeps regular contacts with child and family during the implementation of family development process through phone calls, home visits and meetings in programme premises.
- Participates in annual planning process of Family Strengthening programms at the location level and national office
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Reassesses periodically the child/family needs and progress in meeting the objectives defined in Family Development Process and make decisions on the case closure, in cooperation with family members and the multidisciplinary team.
- Enters data regularly in Programme Database module (PDB), ensures quality of data and uses regularly the reports and data stored in the database to track individual progress of children and families. Provides information for new requirements (new reports, new data fields or features) to senior project lead.
- Upon the request of project lead and in accordance with the national legislation, communicates regularly with the child protection authorities on the case progress.
- Supports Family Strengthening program coordination team in the self-evaluation and/or external evaluation processes.
- Collects regularly information about different indicators as defined in the M&E plan of the programme unit and reports to Project lead.
Partnership building and advocacy
- Keeps regular contacts with service providers to ensure that services are provided according to objectives and actions agreed in Family Development Process focusing on rehabilitation areas.
- Advocates for the individual child and his/her family to have access to social entitlements or obtain needed services.
- Liaise with the National rehabilitation service and Rwanda national child development agency for support on technical matters related to the project especially on streetism cases,
- Enhance collaboration with districts and NCDA officials to maximize on project impact
- Contributes in community development undertaken by the Family Strengthening Program, i.e. organise/participate in awareness raising and preventive activities, community mobilisation events and capacity building of the community structures and partners in rehabilitation process.
- Experienced in working in collaboration with local leaders and cooperatives in the rehabilitation of rescued children
Knowledge Management
- Supports Family Strengthening Programme Coordination team in documenting good practises, human touch stories for the families of rescued children from street situation.
- Keeps regular track of latest developments in social work area as well as changes in national legislation, policies and practises related to children in the target group.
- Training of child care providers in communities and partners
- Ability to organize streetism day and national dialogues for knowledge exchange on preventives measure and best practice in rehabilitation of rescued children and their families
- Adapt method of other best implementing partners in communities with child rehabilitation approaches.
Programme Development
The position holder will therefore be responsible for the following tasks:
Technical Qualifications and personal skills:
- A degree qualification in social sciences especially family rehabilitation and protection and related fields
- At least 3 years’ work experience in the community rehabilitation field, child protection, working with children who have lost care and related fields.
- Experience in project cycle management
- Positive and professional approach. Ability to work independently, self-organise, use initiative, fulfil commitments and meet deadlines.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, including written and spoken English; French would be an added value
- Well-developed facilitation, group leadership and presentation skills.
- Ability to develop guidelines and tools, and oversee their implementation.
- Computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
- A team player who is culturally astute, respectful and tolerant.
- Experience in using applied social research skills (quantitative and qualitative). Additional skills to support FS families would be an added value
How to apply
Candidates meeting the requirements shall submit application letter, CV (with 3 traceable professional referees) and copies of education qualification. Please mention in the subject of your email “Project Field Officer – CiSS-Seruka”. All documents should be written in English and directly submitted to: sos.recruitment@sos-rwanda.org and properly fill the application form found via the following LINK not later than 15th January 2024 at 5:00 pm local time.
- The applications from qualified female are strongly encourage
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
- Late applications will not be accepted.
“SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda/ International holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes”.
Done in Kigali on December, 21st, 2023.
KWIZERA Jean Bosco
National Director
SOS Children villages in Rwanda
