VSO is the world’s leading international development charity that works through volunteers to create a fair world for everyone. At VSO we pride ourselves on doing development differently. We fight poverty not by sending aid, but by working through volunteers and partners to create long-lasting change in some of the world’s poorest regions. We bring key stakeholders together to co-ordinate collective action, from local organisations to national governments. Our programmes in Africa and Asia focus on health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience, peace building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change that will improve the lives of generations to come.

Role overview

To support the Chief of Party and the Project Implementation Leads in managing the Country Office finances.

Skills, qualifications and experience

• Should have Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (ACCA) license with strong technical accounting skills.
• Posses excellent interpersonal and communication skills including writing clearly, accurately & concisely Communication and Influencing Skills
• Be service oriented, customer focused approach with experience of working in and understanding a global organization, using knowledge to analyze and interpret financial information to support management.
• Have experience of identifying risks and how to resolve them.
• Experienced in leading, managing and developing teams.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel particularly use of SUN accounting software and reporting packages.
• A commitment to VSO ’s work and values.

Desirable – Kinyarwanda language.
Competencies and Behaviors
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge

Equal Opportunities
VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.

Once you’re ready to apply, click on “Apply button” below to complete the online form.

JOB OFFER

HELASIA Communications Officer 

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE JOB

Interacts with: 

Direct functional linkage:

1. HELASIA coordination team (Project coordination, technical, MEAL, finance)
2. Rwanda HELASIA project team
3. Remote functional work with 4 project teams (Benin, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique)

Internal linkages 

1. Rwanda Communications & Advocacy manager
2. East Africa Region Communications focal persons
3. HI HQ Inclusive Governance unit
4. HI HQ MEAL department (3i)

External  Linkages

1. Local Partners
2. Pan-African level project partners (ADF, PANPPD)

PRESENTATION OF HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: 

Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

Handicap International is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside vulnerable people and people with disabilities to help meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

For further information about the association: http://www.handicap-international.org

The project

The HELASIA Project

Health, Education and Livelihoods in Africa : a Sustainable Inclusion Approach

The project is focused on generating conclusive experience and change in the participation of people with disabilities by demonstrating the interaction and interdependence between advocacy for people with disabilities’ rights and practical efforts in supporting them to obtain access to quality, inclusive services. To achieve this, in consultation with its national and regional organisations of persons with disabilities (OPD) partners, the project focuses on five different sub-Saharan African countries, each with its own challenges and particularities, to define access to service interventions in health, education, and livelihoods – with the balance between each sector the reflection of the specific priorities identified in each country. The experiences gained will thence form the basis for rigorous learning development and exchange between the countries, both to reinforce country-level practices, as well as to provide practical evidence to advocate for change at Africa regional level.

OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION

The communication officer will:

• The communication officer will integrate the coordination team and will be responsibleof internal and external communication of the HELASIA project. (S)He will provide guidance to the 5  HELASIA country teams in terms of communication, centralise all the needed information and insure regular communications on the project internally and externally, both in English and French.
• Coordinate the production of a web documentary, from the original idea to the final film, including the process of scriptwriting,  coordination of shooting, coordination of editing, amongst others, until the final product render.
• Supporting visualisation and/or lay-out of produced documents of the HELASIA project (in 5 countries). Ensuring that information and reports can be made available in a more visual, accessible and attractive format.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development and rolling out of the HELASIA end-of-project documentary video/videos.

• Creation of the documentary idea and leading the script development through identification of positive impact stories and portraying project beneficiaries in a positive way and with dignity.
• Writing of the communication/ distribution strategy for the end-product.
• Creation of the documentary filming technical ToR and coordination with 5 countries to gather the right video material.
• Serve as a focal point for the service providers that will do the film production.
• Follow-up of the creation of the development end-product, ensuring accessibility of the end product (language, disability accessibility).
• Sharing of the end-product with the decided actors.

Support the visualisation, lay-out and accessiblility of the end project outputs to be useful for internal and external communication.

• Revise the project produced documents to date and create attractive summary documents or visual presentations that can be shared with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collection of photographic material from the different project countries.
• Lead the visualisation of final project achievements (development of infographics).
• Support the visualisation and accessibility of the final evaluation result report (language and disability accessibility taken into account).
• Identify opportunities for storytelling and/or positive impact stories.

Organisational learning

Contributes to visualizing and making the learnings of the HELASIA project more attractive.

• Development of visually attractive learning documents of the HELASIA project.
• Ensuring disability accessibility of those developed documents.
• Sharing of the final products internally and externally.
• Feed the internal-to HI space (HInside) with stories and photos, received from project teams.

Shares the knowledge produced on the field of expertise (s)he is working on internally to the program and more broadly at the organizational level through the use of HI Library.

Punctual support to the project’s communication requests

• Support with translation or proofreading of documents;
• Support the lay-out of documents;
• Support the choice and development for HELASIA visibility materials;
• Support social media engagement for events;
• Feeding of the HInside space;
• Support on development or review of Comms documents;
• Support the regional EAR strategy;
• Upon request, answer HQ communications requests.

Respect of HI identity, rules and policies

Aim: HI identity, ethic, rules and procedures are respected

Benchmark: HI code of conduct and ethic, HI mandate and values, HI rules and operating procedure, HI policies are known, understood, applied and respected by the MEAL manager and the  wider MEAL team

Activities:

In coordination with the Human resources manager and the coordination team:

• Know, understand, apply and respect HI code of conduct and ethics, HI mandate and values, HI rules and operating procedure, HI policies (child protection policy, policy and mechanism for the prevention of and fight against bribery, the protection of beneficiaries from sexual exploitation and abuse policy) and make sure they are known, understood, applied and respected by the wider team;
• Know, understand, apply and respect HI security rules and make sure they are known, understood and applied by her/his team;
• Regular refresher trainings are organized to become acquainted with this.

The employee is expected to perform any other tasks in addition to the aforementioned, upon request.

PROFILE SOUGHT

How to apply

All interested candidates should send their application file (motivation letter, CV with 3 professional previous references in line of this job, & copy of each diploma) not later than 11th September 2022, at midi night via email address: recrutement@rwanda.hi.org with subject: RWACOMM082022 

N.B: In respect of the law into force, persons with disabilities will be given a priority if they prove professional competences as equally as other candidates in tests and interviews.

Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Done at Kigali, 30th September 2022

Mélanie GEISER

Country manager

We are hiring a Program Impact & Design Director

ABOUT SPARK MICROGRANTS

Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Spark has pioneered a community-driven development model in East Africa, and works with NGO and Government partners to scale adoption and impacts for rural communities – on their own terms. Our model combines facilitated community meetings with a small, discretionary grant to catalyse local action and institution building. Read more about our Approach, Impact and Values on our website.

Spark is seeking an ambitious and impact-driven leader to champion our work in sector-leading community-driven program design, product design, and program quality enhancement. This is a dynamic and innovative role sitting across our global portfolio. Key responsibilities are design of new programs and products, leading sector learning and standard setting, and embedding learning into quality enhancement of programming.

This role requires collaboration across the organization, with a particular focus on research, developing and maintaining strong evidence-program-policy linkages, and supporting technical and technological innovations in program design and implementation.

We are looking for a senior strategic leader who will bring international technical expertise, champion a collaborative working approach and demonstrate excellence in management, mentoring, and leadership.

OUR WORK

The foundation of our approach is the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) where communities are led through regular facilitated meetings to organize, conceptualize and implement local development projects, supported by a microgrant to fund it. Our currency is quality, which is evidenced in our impacts. Spark supports implementation of the FCAP in rural communities to improve local livelihoods, enhance social cohesion, and improve citizen engagement. Our community-based development model aims to catalyse social and economic transitions in the context of development opportunities present in each country we work in.

Spark is now active in 500+ villages in 6 countries,  benefiting over 230,000 lives. In the next three years, we seek to accelerate the growth of this approach, through i) establishing a global Community of Practice with partners based on cutting edge facilitation and training design, ii) establishing a national scale program in Rwanda – our flagship program – in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, and iii) expanding programs in Malawi, Uganda, and Ghana.

Spark currently operates in seven countries in partnership with governments and nonprofits. We aim to reach national scale in five countries over the next five years. Towards this goal Spark has secured a USD Six million World Bank-Comic Relief grant through the Japanese Social Development Fund, for the Advancing Citizen Engagement (ACE) Project in Rwanda. Started in June 2021, the project will improve the livelihoods of 85,000 people across 249 villages in Rwanda, and enhance Local and Central Government capacity for participatory village planning, utilising Spark’s tried and tested model for village development, the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP). The project includes an external evaluation of the project. Your strategic leadership will guarantee strong evaluation of the program and continuous data-driven decision making contributing to setting on the path to national scale in Rwanda.

Along with our work in Rwanda, Spark is partnering with the Government of Malawi to roll-out the FCAP (modified to context in Malawi) and subsequent expansion to large scale. We are strategically focussing on technology-led delivery of FCAP in Malawi to explore ways to improve impact and reduce cost of delivery. As part of the pilot in Malawi, we are aiming to do a variety of testing on programmatic input areas including grant sizes, length and duration of training and role of technology. Based on the learnings above, we are aiming to run a RCT starting mid-2023. We are preparing for  similar testing through our partners in Uganda and Ghana leveraging our government and civil society partnerships. We are also exploring opportunities to deepen impacts by leveraging the up front costs of the FCAP to support a broader set of development programs through a community-driven approach.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a seasoned professional with significant expertise in community-driven development, program management, and product design. You are excited to join us at a crucial juncture in our growth when we are investing heavily in high quality research, growing our program and product design teams, and focused on maintaining sector-leading quality as we scale. You will lead our team in incorporating technology into our program delivery, developing and maintaining quality approaches to facilitation and training design and implementation, and take a user-centred approach to embedding quality programming into efficient and practical projects and partnerships.

Our experience is that quality of implementation requires both strong program designs (suited to context), and strong implementation management and structures. You will bring experience in both, and play a key role in setting up industry-leading programs with the potential for scale. In addition to technical skills we also want the person in this leadership role to have a passion for a culture of excellence. The right candidate will not want to do ‘development as usual’ but question ‘how’ aid works and ensure that Spark’s program is ultimately accountable to the villages we serve. The Program Impact & Design Director will continue our excellent work in establishing a culture of excellence and collaboration within Spark and our partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Department Management

• Championing a culture of feedback, learning and iteration to ensure Spark’s Impact and Design systems continue to adapt, improve, and lead program quality and innovation.
• Drive departmental strategy including setting and achieving departmental and organizational goals.Manage, develop and retain the team setting clear responsibility domains, deliverables, growth opportunities, and support to achieve their goals.
• Lead to day to day running of a variety of strategically important projects, ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget (see details below).
• Establish and sustain critical productive relationships with donors, partners, and industry stakeholders (e.g. researchers, academics) to advance Spark’s ability to draw on and influence a wide range of advisers and industry partners in our work.

Design: Develop and lead Spark’s program and product design functions

The Design team is responsible for quality design of programmatic tools for partners, based on the FCAP approach. The FCAP is a guiding framework based on 6 core principles, while Spark’s specific programs are designed based on the country and partnership context. The Design team lead the process of user-centred adaptation of the ‘core’ FCAP modules and principles to meet the development needs and opportunities facing communities, and the skills and capacities of our partners in implementation. This requires expertise in community-driven development fundamentals. Responsibilities include:

• Developing and leading co-design processes with partners. We work with partners through an approach incorporating human-centred design methodologies to co-create programs.
• Develop technical and technological tools for program implementation and management, based on partners needs. These include remote training tools, remote assessment and feedback systems, facilitation guides, and microgrant tracking tools (financial and technical).
• Providing technical expertise to inform the design of internal and external program evaluations and other research.

Key Design projects in 2022-23 include:

• Rolling out a facilitation and training curriculum to 500 learners in Malawi.
• Leading co-design of programs to serve 100 communities each in Uganda and Ghana
• Designing and managing tech teams to deliver a mobile app for remote delivery of FCAP. Deployment of the first module is expected in Malawi by end of the year and iterative improvements envisioned over the next 2-3 years.

Industry leading learning and quality support: Embed best practices and global evidence into our work, facilitate cross-program learning platforms, and develop and popularize quality standards

Spark’s Design team are the ‘handshake’ between global best practices and evidence, and program-generated learning, skills, and knowledge. Our work is the foundation for our contribution to broader development discourse, while we seek to embed industry-leading evidence from practitioner and academic worlds into our programming. Responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and enhancing learning platforms across our global portfolio, identifying shared lessons and trends, and helping partners to re-embed learning into programming.
• Staying abreast of industry evidence and learning, and translate lessons into practical progam design and management tools.
• Developing and disseminating ‘FCAP Standards’ – our markers for quality programming, based on experience from across the global portfolio.
• Support program implementation teams to undertake iterative problem solving and adaptation processes based on results. 

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications, experience & skills:

• 8-10 years of relevant experience, such as in Program design, delivering high quality research and technology tools, community-driven development, and human-centered design;
• Masters Degree in the field of Economics, International Development,, Product Design, or related fields;
• Excellent track record in designing and managing rural development programs and partnerships, and research projects and partnerships;
• Proven track record of developing and deploying program design tools, such as training guides, workplans, and partnership agreements;
• Demonstrated experience in management
• Ability to operate independently and strong in working as part of a larger team;
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail are required;
• Experience in strategy development is desirable;
• Excellent English written and oral communication;
• Remains calm and positive under pressure and in difficult situations;

Safeguarding

Our safeguarding follows a do no harm principle. All Spark staff are expected to respect and uphold the safeguarding procedures and principles to minimise harm to stakeholders, program participants, and the environment, in compliance with the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework and Rwandan Legislation.

OTHER INFORMATION

Job Location: Flexible in locations in East Africa, preferred in Kigali, Rwanda 

Estimated start date: As soon as possible

Application closing Date: 30th September 2022

How to Apply: Follow this link to apply http://sparkmicrogrants.bamboohr.com/jobs

Please note that we are able to sponsor visa applications for this position. 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Spark Microgrants provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. Employment decisions at Spark are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Spark does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Spark will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship to daily operations.

We are hiring a Monitoring, Evaluations and Information Systems Director

ABOUT SPARK MICROGRANTS

Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Spark has pioneered a community-driven development model in East Africa, and works with NGO and Government partners to scale adoption and impacts for rural communities – on their own terms. Our model combines facilitated community meetings with a small, discretionary grant to catalyse local action and institution building. Read more about our Approach, Impact and Values on our website.

Spark is seeking an ambitious and impact-driven leader to champion our work in evidence-driven research, monitoring & evaluation and information systems management. This is a dynamic and innovative role sitting across our global portfolio. Key responsibilities are generation of robust evidence of impact through programmatic monitoring and internal and external evaluations, managing our information systems, developing and maintaining strong evidence-program-policy linkages, and supporting technical and technological innovations in program design.

We are looking for a senior strategic leader who will lead a large and diverse portfolio of work, bring international technical expertise, champion a collaborative working approach and demonstrate excellence in management, mentoring, and leadership.

OUR WORK

Spark currently operates in seven countries in partnership with governments and nonprofits. We aim to reach national scale in five countries over the next five years. Towards this goal Spark has secured a USD Six million World Bank-Comic Relief grant through the Japanese Social Development Fund, for the Advancing Citizen Engagement (ACE) Project in Rwanda. Started in June 2021, the project will improve the livelihoods of 85,000 people across 249 villages in Rwanda, and enhance Local and Central Government capacity for participatory village planning, utilising Spark’s tried and tested model for village development, the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP). The project includes an external evaluation of the project. Your strategic leadership will guarantee strong evaluation of the program and continuous data-driven decision making contributing to setting on the path to national scale in Rwanda.

Along with our work in Rwanda, Spark is partnering with the Government of Malawi to roll-out the FCAP (modified to context in Malawi) and subsequent expansion to large scale. We are strategically focussing on technology-led delivery of FCAP in Malawi to explore ways to improve impact and reduce cost of delivery. As part of the pilot in Malawi, we are aiming to do a variety of testing on programmatic input areas including grant sizes, length and duration of training and role of technology. Based on the learnings above, we are aiming to run a RCT starting mid-2023. We are preparing for  similar testing through our partners in Uganda and Ghana leveraging our government and civil society partnerships. We are also exploring opportunities to layer aligned interventions on FCAP to generate maximum impact for communities and leverage the investment of intensive FCAP delivery over an extended period of time.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a seasoned professional with significant expertise in impact evaluation, program monitoring, passion for leveraging technology and an interest in making research accessible to the layperson. You thrive in bringing order to chaos, understanding a variety of stakeholders, requirements and priorities and bringing them all together into coherent and systematic processes for delivery. You enjoy being part of a team with ambitious ideas and you gain energy from turning those ambiguous ideas into a pragmatic reality.  You are a clear communicator, understanding differing styles and backgrounds and you bring things up to your colleagues proactively that need to be discussed.

THE ROLE

In your role you will be part of the leadership team. You will work with a team of 65+ staff, own research and actively contribute to funding partner relationships. You will directly manage a team of 11 people across monitoring and evaluation, MIS, research and learning functions. You will also manage consultants and large research contracts compliant with World Bank, USAID and other large donors’ procurement guidelines.

The right candidate will not want to do ‘development as usual’ but question ‘how’ aid works and ensure that Spark’s program is ultimately accountable to the villages we serve. The Monitoring, Evaluations and Information Systems Director will continue our excellent work in establishing a culture of learning and evidence-based decision-making within Spark and our partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Department Management

Responsibilities include:

• Championing a culture of feedback, learning and iteration to ensure Spark’s M&E and learning systems continue to adapt, improve, and feed into program decisions.
• Drive departmental strategy including setting and achieving departmental and organizational goals.
• Manage, develop and retain the team setting clear responsibility domains, deliverables, growth opportunities, and support to achieve their goals.
• Establish and sustain critical productive relationships with donors, partners, and industry stakeholders (e.g. researchers, academics) to advance Spark’s ability to draw on and influence a wide range of advisers and industry partners in our work.

Monitoring and Evaluation: Lead Spark’s monitoring and evaluation functions across our global portfolio. 

• Ensure M&E teams work closely with other Spark teams such as the training and learning departments to support roll-out of and training on these systems across all partners. Model a service mentality of adapting and designing M&E systems that make it easy for our partners to track and improve the quality of their programs.
• Data consolidation and analysis, linked to program quality and organisational learning objectives, and to support partner-driven learning and program management.
• Database management
• Ensure smooth functioning of data systems and provision of timely reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee development and implementation of monitoring tools, analyses and learning projects that are robust, iterative and effective at capturing the impact of the Spark process within partner communities, including tools to garner rapid end-user feedback about program quality (‘citizen feedback’).
• Leading the design and implementation of internal and external impact evaluations. Lead the relationship with external researchers and institutions.
• Monitoring the effectiveness and quality of safeguards systems in Rwanda, including ensuring spot-checks on the use of Microgrant project risk screening tools, and monitoring the performance of the grievance redress mechanism.

Research and Learning: Lead Spark’s research and learning functions across our global portfolio.

• Developing and researching key ‘learning questions’ annually, contributing to address internal and industry-wide learning and evidence gaps, and aligned with the organisation’s strategy and vision.
• Ensure learnings and data are contributing to Spark’s organisational strategy & goals as we scale our model through partners.
• Develop partnerships with relevant partners to push Spark to continuously test new ways of measuring and further understanding our impact – and share these results with the sector.
• Map out existing research, network within the sector and gather learnings and evidence to inform the development of standards for facilitation and community-driven development and align Spark’s learning agenda and exchange with these standards.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications, experience & skills:

• 8-10 years of relevant experience in M&E, designing and delivering high quality research and managing information systems
• Masters Degree in the field of Economics, International Development, or related fields;
• Demonstrated experience in management and a record of leading and developing diverse teams;
• Ability to operate independently and strong in working as part of a larger team;
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail are required;
• Experience in strategy development is desirable;
• Excellent English written and oral communication;
• Remains calm and positive under pressure and in difficult situations;
• Experience of working with academics, governments and donor institutions required;
• Experience working with the World Bank would be advantageous.

Safeguarding

Our safeguarding follows a do no harm principle. All Spark staff are expected to respect and uphold the safeguarding procedures and principles to minimise harm to stakeholders, program participants, and the environment, in compliance with the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework and Rwandan Legislation.

OTHER INFORMATION

Job Location: Flexible in locations in East Africa, preferred in Kigali, Rwanda 

Estimated start date: As soon as possible

Application closing Date: 30th September 2022

How to Apply: Follow this link to apply http://sparkmicrogrants.bamboohr.com/job

Please note that we are able to sponsor visa applications for this position. 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Spark Microgrants provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. Employment decisions at Spark are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Spark does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Spark will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship to daily operations.

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR HEAD OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Introduction

Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA) is seeking a competent and experienced candidate for Head of Health & Nutrition position for its health project in Ajoung Thok, Jam Jang County, Ruweng Administrative Area. The position is for a one year period, from September 2022 to August 31, 2023 with possible extension depending on perfomiance and availability of funds.

AHA, a Pan-African Non-Governmental humanitarian organization was founded in 1994 in response to the atrocities in Rwanda. Its major interventions center on provision of primary health care services, comprehensive nutrition program, reproductive health services including SGBV and HIV-AIDS prevention and response, food distribution, WASH, shelter and camp management.

AHA started its South Sudan operations in April 2013 by implementing a comprehensive primary health care, reproductive health and nutrition programs for refugees from South Kordofan region of the Sudan in Ajuong Thok refugee camp. It integrated Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPS S) and hygiene promotion activities in 2016. In the same year, AHA initiated the Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM program) to manage common childhood illnesses (malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea) at community level.

Purpose of the position:

The Head for Health & Nutrition assumes full responsibility and ensures the provision of effective pi‘iiiiary health care (PHC), Reproductive Health (RH), Nutrition, Community based health service including COVID-19 prevention and response activities.

Under the direction supervision of the Chief Medical Officer/Field coordinator and in collaboration with Senior Program and Support staff, the Head for Health and Nutrition will have the following specific duties and responsibilities:-

Programs Management

• Supervise and ensure the provision of integrated Primary Health Care (PHC), RH services (ANC, PMTCT, EPI, SGBV, SBA, BeMONC, PNC, PAC,FP,ASRH), TB/HIV, MHPS S and nutrition services (OTP, TSFP, SC, IYCF) following MOH protocols and guidelines;
• Supervise and ensure effective health promotion, disease Prevention, ICCM activities; and the integration of Hygiene promotion into community health program,
• Provide technical support to all departments (Primary health care, Reproductive Health, Community based health program, and Nutrition);
• Design and put in place internal quality control measures and regularly assess the quality of medical services provided to patients.
• Be on call during and outside of working hours to provide medical consultation/ case management in the event of emergencies
• Ensure the capacity building of the clinical staff by planning and facilitating formal trainings and regular Continuous Medical education (CMEs)
• Support departments in the design and implementation of training/advocacy workshops etc.;
• Ensure that the staff are trained on the proper use of available medical equipment;
• Supei vise and ensure that medical charts and records of patients are maintained for further follow-ups.
• Take lead role in mortality audits ensuring that each mortality is audited according to set protocol and records are securely kept;
• Ensures the provision of special clinic services such as NCD, TB/HIV and the Nutrition stabilization center(SC)
• Supervise and ensure that all health personnel working in health facilities dress appropriately ( uniforms) while at the facility premises,
• Provide regular supportive supervision and mentorship to all departments;
• Prepare and update regularly the camp level emergency response preparedness plan for epidemic prone diseases including COVID-19;

Program monitoring and Management

• Participate in project designing, planning, budgeting;
• Plans, organizes, leads, co-ordinates and monitors health and health related programs at AHA-SS run health institutions in collaboration with Chief medical officer;
• Designs effective systems of daily health service programs and sets up proper facilitation arrangements in the managed health facilities;
• Ensure the quality of clinical services in the community (ICCM), OPD and IPD by emphasizing on childhood illnesses (Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Malaria) and epidemic prone diseases (AWD, Malaria, Meningitis, ARTIs. ..)
• Follow up of the implementation of health and nutrition activities according to the work plan for all project (UNHCR, BPRM and other donors)
• Ensure regular monitoring of the program and evaluation of effectiveness and impact of the intervention in collaboration with CMRO, FC/CMO and departments Heads.
• Promote team spirit among the staff and undertakes periodic performance evaluation;
• Ensure the program departments conduct regular meetings and provide feedback to the field management team;

• Coordinate the compilation of regular program reports and ensure timely submission to different donors;
• Ensure all the program reports are of good quality and submitted to concerned people on time

Partnership and coordination

• Support the administration in the recruitment of technical staff, ensure the induction is done properly and performance objectives/targets are agreed and sets; and periodic appraisals are done to all program staff.
• Ensures participation of the beneficiary communities in the planning and implementation and monitoring of project activities;
• Collaborate with health committees and community leadership, and organize regular meeting with them to ensure effective feedback mechanism;
• Assess and identify the needs and gaps; and participation in proposal writing for fund mobilization from the donors;
• Ensure the coordination of the project, linkage to existing national health program and other health partners;
• Advocate to UNHCR for the patients who need refeiral for specialized care and ensure all the procedures are done according to UNHCR referral SOP.
• Attend or delegate someone in all Health, nutrition and WASH coordination meeting and share the minutes of the meeting to FC/CMO;
• Provide the technical support to the Operation department in the process of procurement of medical items and medicines.
• Attend or delegate someone in the camp/refugees coordination meetings event and provide feedback to AHA field office;

Organization Representation and promotion

• Represent AHA with partners, community and government in the absence of the field coordinator
• Support Field Coordinator/CMO and Operations manager in all program and technical issues;
• Ensure that the staff respect organization ethics and accountability to affected populations
• Promote goal directed behavior among staff at the field level
• Promote Effective communication and collaboration with local administration, ministry of health and with partners
• Establish approaches and Promote AHA visibility and organization image

Resource Mobilization

• Actively seek funding opportunities to expand AHAs portfolios in South Sudan
• Lead AHAs senior management and program team in concept note development and drafting of project proposal.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL ATRIBUTES

HOW TO APPLY 

Africa Humanitarian Action is an equal opportunity employer therefore women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit CV, cover letter, academic documents addressed to Africa Humanitarian Action Head of Finances & Administration and Human Resources Manager by email to: financess@africahumanitarian.ore and admiiiss@africahumanitarian.org; or by hard copy to AHA Field office in Ajoung Thok, Jamjang County or to Country Office in Juba, (Thong-ping, Hai Juba Nabari, Plot No. 568, Block 3 K south, Near file Fortune Hotel..

Note: Local interested candidates should submit their motivation letter, updated C.V. together with three references, a copy of national ID/Passport, Academic documents and a copy of the latest work certificate documents for the previous employer, all in one PDF Format. All candidates should submit their applications addressed to the Head of Finance Admin. & Logistics on the following email address: vedaste.gakunde@gmail.com and copy to mulugetatena@yahoo.com  and mujedas61@gmail.com

All applications must be clearly labelled “Head for Health & Nutrition” and submitted by 5:00 PM on September 10, 2022.

Note:

The successful candidate will be awarded a contract after an independent background check, including but not limited to qualification, previous employment record;

Salary: negotiable

Advert – CP&SGBV Officer ( CFS&YFS Team leader)

About the Role:

Supporting individual children and families through provision of mental health and psychosocial support and safe space for children to socialize, learn and play and case management services and increasing the community’s capacity to identify and respond to child protection concerns.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

Qualifications and experience

• University degree in social sciences, arts, public administration, social administration, community development.
• 2 years’ experience working with children and child protection & SGBV
• Ability to communicate in English, French and Kinyarwanda through verbal and written communication.
• Good technical understanding of child protection, SGBV and community based approaches.
• Computer knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Be able to prioritize tasks.
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.
• Experience with community development, working with children and schools.
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to think critically and to recommend good solutions to problems.
• Strong Organizational skills.
• Ability to conduct outreach at the community level.

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

This position is on Child Safeguarding- Level 3:  The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs. Or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ANTI-HARASSMENT Policy

We are committed to ensuring a safe working environment for all those who work for us and for all those who come into contact with our staff and representatives, including children and members of the communities with whom we work.

SCI takes a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment and any other conduct that is discriminatory or disrespectful to others.

Application Information: https://rwanda.savethechildren.net

Deadline for receiving applications is 13^th  September 2022.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

*Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. *

*Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process*

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