Job Opportunities
Project profile
Project title: Bienfait Project
Location of the project: Karongi District, Western Province
Closing date: January 12, 2022
Background
Research for Development (RD Rwanda) is a non-profit organization (NGO) created in 2017. It is located in Kigali City, Gasabo District, Remera Sector; Nyarutarama Cell, Po Box: 6174 Kigali-Rwanda.
RD Rwanda is engaged in a range of projects and activities in the field of research on disease control and prevention, education; health programs, economic development initiatives, women empowerment, and support for children and adolescents with disabilities.
It is against this background that RD Rwanda has received a fund from 1000 Hügel e.V., Germany to implement the project called “Bienfait Project” which aims to support health care for children and adolescents with disabilities through mobile teams so that they can access diagnosis, treatment, and assistive devices despite their immobility and lack of infrastructure in Karongi District. RD Rwanda wishes to recruit self-motivated and qualified people of high integrity to fill the following positions:
1. District/Local Project Manager (1)
Report to: Bienfait Project Coordinator
Roles and responsibilities
- Perform all the duties assigned by Bienfait Project Coordinator;
- Be in charge of the training center management on a daily basis;
- Be in charge of coordinating all the activities of the center;
- Identify children and adolescents with disabilities from their remote villages;
- Accompany mobile teams that travel to the remote villages, visit the children where they live and help them on the spot;
- Provide education about the health picture and disability, monitoring and evaluation and support parents in terms of creating networks;
- Train and sensitize parents and guardians of children with disabilities;
- Fight against the stigmatization of people with disabilities;
- Distribute assistive devices to children with disabilities;
- Participate in the counseling of children with disabilities;
- Strengthen volunteer community health workers’ work
- Plan for the training of health workers;
- Participate in the planning and implementation of the project;
- Plan and schedule project timelines in collaboration with the project coordinator;
- Coordinate project staff;
- Quality assurance;
- Reporting regularly to senior management;
- Tracking project performance;
- Project evaluation and results measurement;
- Collaborate with Bienfait Project Coordinator and RD Rwanda staff and administrators to achieve the project objectives;
- Perform any other activities as might be assigned by the Project Coordinator or RD Rwanda management.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies/ Rural Development, Project Management, or a related field from a recognized university; having a master’s degree in public health or related field will be an added value.
- A proven experience of project management and related experience;
- Ability to solve problems creatively;
- Excellent analytical skills;
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful;
- Ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline;
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools;
- Conversant with English;
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadline;
- Having local working experience with similar projects;
- Good organizational skills;
- Having knowledge of local context will be an added value.
How to apply?
All interested and qualified candidates who fulfil the requirements set here-in should submit an updated résumé, degrees, certificates and a Copy of National Identity accompanied with a cover letter addressed to the Director of Administration and Finance of RD Rwanda in one document to the email address: rdrwanda@gmail.com not later than January 12, 2022 at 5:00 pm Kigali time. For further information, please contact Paul Harorimana, Project Administrator, on his mobile phone: 0788457933.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for exam/interview.
Pascal UWIMANA
Director of Administration and Finance
Done in Kigali on January 5, 2022
