Background
Good neighbors International (GNI) is an international humanitarian and developmental organization in general consultation status with UN ECOSOC operating in 40 countries around the world. GNI in Rwanda is legally registered and has endeavored to improve child sponsorship and protection, health, education, WASH, Agriculture& livelihood, Humanitarian assistance, advocacy, and social economy in 6 districts (Gasabo, Kamonyi, Gisagara, Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, and Karongi).
Overview:
In October 2023, GNI signed a partnership agreement build from WFP’s existing initiatives and aligns with the Mastercard Foundation (the Foundation)’s ‘Young Africa Works strategy’ and address the areas of support identified in the Foundation’s Rwanda’s agricultural sector diagnostic study (attached) to implement Shora Neza Project.
Shora Neza is a five-year project aiming to create new and strengthen existing employment opportunities for young men and women, while considering their different needs, through strengthened, interlinked, and efficient agricultural value chains.
Specifically, the partnership will focus on contributing to achieving the following outcomes of the project:
- Market Access: Increased smallholder farmer incomes by connecting them to premium public and private markets for sales at national and regional levels.
- Post-harvest Management (PHM): Improved quality and reduced post-harvest losses through the promotion of a vibrant, youth-led market for post-harvest (PH) equipment and services.
- Access to Finance: Enhanced linkages to formal financial products and services by project beneficiaries.
In this regard, Good Neighbors International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following positions:
IT and Database Administrator 1 (Location: Kigali Head Office)
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical design, development, coordination, implementation of, and maintain regularly a database platform (website, mobile application for both Android and iOS) for FSCs, and youth job opportunities
- Enhancing the website and mobile app compatible with any devices running on Android 4.0+ and iOS.4.0+
- Coordinate, and supervise the Service providers (SPs) tasks to develop youth database platform, mobile application software requirements specification (SRS) and documenting the development procedures, data flow diagram, and to provide an application to run in any screen (mobile devices) resolution
- Coordinate, and supervise the trainings on how to use the database platform, and social media to youth, government, private sectors, and all concern stakeholders by the (SPs)
- Develop, maintain an online channel to disseminate weather and crop insurance information in agri-food system
- Train how to use the online channel to Farmers Service Centers (FSCs), youth, farmers, government, private sectors and all concerned stakeholders
- To work closely with the procurement unit for solicitation of IT inputs and services
- Regular updating, management bugs/errors, and support users
- Any other requirement comes during development.
- To perform additional jobs assigned by the Country Director, Project manager, and/or Cluster Managers
Qualifications and experience required
- The candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree in IT and computer science or other related field, with at least 3 years’ experience in related field;
- An excellent written and oral command of English and Kinyarwanda languages;
- Proven experience in community mobilization;
- Good computer skills (JAVA, HTML, computer programming, app developing, Microsoft word, Excel, power point and any related computer skills to be completed the tasks) and report writing skills
- Need to use Open-Source Development Platform
- Honest and transparent
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Prepare final operational and technical documentation (which includes requirements documentation, technical documentation, source code, data flow diagrams) and provide with both hard copies and soft copies to GNI
- It is a field based / support position, he / she should be ready to travel to in the rural
- Kindly download and fill in the attached ‘GNI Application form’
- Kindly rename and save the file as ‘Name, Position’
- Kindly submit the CV, and GNI Application form well filled through email: gnrwanda.hr@gmail.com, on 13th November, 2023 not later than 23:59 pm.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Good Neighbors International has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm or sexual exploitation and abuse against any beneficiaries (or program participants). Safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s shared responsibility and all GN employees and partners are required to adhere to GN’s Code of Conduct both during and outside working hours. Familiarization with and adherence to the GN Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all employees and partners, in addition to related mandatory training. All applicants interested to work with GNI must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.
