% of time

Activity

End Results

10

Participate in the project planning, review, redesign, budgeting and implementation in the refugees’ camps and host communities, and ensure that cascaded targets are achieved with allocated resources

Project plans and budgets are produced and effectively implemented

20

Conduct identification of project volunteers and building their capacity, motivating and coordinating them for enrolling, mentoring, and monitoring beneficiaries of the project.

Facilitate formation of savings and credit groups and ensure the participation of the project targeted beneficiaries

Sufficient project volunteers are identified, empowered, coordinated, and facilitated to support the project.

10

Ensure enrolment and profiling of project beneficiaries in LMMS or other database and/or monitoring software that are necessary for the project to effectively serve all beneficiaries and keep their records on how they will be progressing out of poverty

Households profiled and supported

30

Facilitate all project beneficiaries to attend basic trainings and regular dialogues on Empowered World View, Entrepreneurship and Gender to ensure that they have enough learning opportunities to change their mindset towards poverty and wealth creation

Beneficiaries worldviews and mindset changed to adopt productive and saving friendly behaviors

10

Mobilize all beneficiaries to join socioeconomic networks such as Saving Groups and producer groups that will help them learn from each other, and synergistically work together to enhance their livelihoods.

All beneficiaries belong to a Saving Group and another socioeconomic network.

30

Ensure that all project beneficiaries participate in technical trainings organized under approved resilience and livelihood models which is relevant to their chosen livelihoods’ activities.

Beneficiaries are provided with relevant technical skills to perform better in their livelihoods’ activities

10

Prepare the project beneficiaries and facilitate them for accessing productive assets through the cash transfer approach to support their livelihoods initiatives

Beneficiaries facilitated to access productive assets through cash transfer

5

Collect data on all the project activities and sharing them on regular basis with the project M&E specialist and other relevant staff in the organization

Data on all the project activities collected and shared on regular basis

5

Contribute and participate in periodic evaluations of the savings groups (Effectively document all information related to project successes and best practices, create a bank of pictures, videos, and most significant change stories on the project)

Best practices and success stories are documented

Required Professional Experience

1. At least 3 years of experience working with economic development sectors
2. Demonstrate ability to foster partnerships with refugee camps, community and/or Government agencies and groups
3. Must be amiliar with economic development models e.g. Saving Groups, Local Value Chain Development (LVCD), Business Facilitation, (BF), Microfinance, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA), Farmer Managed Natural Resources (FMNR), Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), , and CBDRM.
4. Ability to construct, interpret, critique budgets and track expenditure; strong financial/budgeting skills.
5. Report writing skills
6. Strong group facilitation and training skills
7. Good monitoring skills

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

1. Bachelors’ degree in Agribusiness, Rural Development, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or any other related field.

2. Having a driving license class A.

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

1. Financial Management and economic development skills
2. Knowledge of community development, empowerment and mentoring approaches
3. Demonstrated experience in community economic development and management(own business or by providing business development services), experience with small business financing, market analysis and market research
4. Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation; knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools such as log frames, monitoring and software such as Cobo Toolbox.
5. Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Outlook.
6. Experience in Networking
7. Business-oriented mindset

30%

Project Design

• Provide guidance in the design of project planning tools, ensuring that quality planning and budgeting documents are produced with highest quality
• Ensure project theory of change remains consistent through the conception and implementation of project activities;
• Develop/Maintain, and/or contextualize standards and project models aligned to the national office technical programs
• Ensure cross cutting themes (child and adult safeguarding, advocacy and gender mainstreaming, faith and development, etc.) are adequately integrated in project and provide guidance for development of monitoring tools, that are simple and adequate

Livelihood and Self-reliance project models effectively implemented

Programming quality enhanced

Quality planning tools are in place and utilized adequately

40%

Project Monitoring and learning

• Develop and/or maintain project monitoring systems and processes that tracks performance against project objectives and targets
• Ensure appropriate project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are in place and  functioning at all levels to meet the project output and outcome monitoring requirements
• Ensure information gathered through monitoring activities especially the monthly tracking tool  is shared timely;
• Provide guidance and coordinate the process of developing quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports;
• Ensure that quality  reports are produced and submitted as per the agreed donor standards and deadlines;
• Provide technical support to project teams in data collection, processing, analysis and interpretation across the project scope
• Ensure best practices, success stories and/or lessons learnt are documented and disseminated within World Vision Rwanda and its partners ;
• Provide ongoing oversight and technical assistance to implementing partners in designing and implementing  of planned project activities ;

Functional M&E system

Monthly progress tracking tool and reports from all projects  are produced and shared timely with the donor

Projects are efficiently and effectively monitored

Annual reports and action plans are prepared and timely submitted to key stakeholders including donor, line ministries and government bodies

Lessons are documented and shared during project reviews to inform adaptive management.

20%

Project Evaluation and reporting

• Provide overall technical guidance for quality  project baselines, evaluations, researches, and special studies;
• Ensure assessment, research and/or evaluation findings are actively communicated to key project staff and partners ;
• Promote impact reporting by supporting quality documentation of significant change and impact stories as well as innovations, and ensuring these are shared to relevant staff and partners.
• Establish and manage the project database (relevant project data, impact and success stories)

Quality  research, assessment and/or evaluation reports produced and shared timely

Project outputs and outcomes benchmarked with relevant baseline values

Status/update reports are produced with high quality and shared widely.

Project impact is documented and communicated widely.

10%

Project risk Management

• Assess risks related to the project, maintain an updated risk register, monitor risks and ensure they are properly managed.
• Work closely with the risk management Officer to ensure that quarterly monitoring reports on implementation of mitigation actions on operational risk are integrated in the NO risk report.

Project risks identified and mitigated accordingly

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in development work, preferably working in a large organization.
• Should have extensive experience in project design, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation. Experience in livelihoods graduation approach is essential.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Management, Statistics, Social Sciences, Business Administration or related field.
•  Computer literacy (at least good command of word and excel)

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Project Management and/or Monitoring and Evaluation is desirable.
• Knowledge of statistical and data management software (E,g. STATA, SPSS, ODK, KOBO and CSpro).
•  Knowledge of M&E frameworks
• Must have a clear vision of the key accountabilities, and be determined to achieve all set targets in line with short, medium and long-term targets and objectives.