Job description

– Coordinate the inclusive identification of vulnerable groups at the Sector level and their needs in accordance with the criteria established by higher authorities;
– Implement the District’s empowerment strategy for vulnerable groups towards their graduation;
– Monitor and evaluate the impact of inclusive social protection programs or initiatives within the Sector and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Monitor the functioning of the Women promotion programs, Children promotion programs, Persons with Disabilities promotion programs at the Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Organize, in collaboration with other stakeholders, campaigns (training, workshops, meetings, etc.) aimed at improving the inclusive development of vulnerable groups the Sector and Cells;
Develop and keep updated a database of vulnerable groups as well as graduates living in the Sector.

Job description

– Monitor on a daily basis revenue deposits on the account of the District and proceed to a daily bank reconciliation, register the amount collected into the receipt books and keep books of revenues account;
– Consolidate revenue deposit bank slips, produce daily banking reconciliation sheet and submit progress reports vis-à-is locally set revenue targets to the Director of finances;
– Produce complete, accurate and timely revenue financial reports and statements within mandatory deadlines and reconcile all revenues and transfers to the District;
– Monitor, on a regular basis, if taxpayer databases are maintained and updated by the District;
– Facilitate internal and external Audit exercises for revenue accounts.

CHAI RWANDA

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

TITLE: Associate, SRH

Program: Sexual and Reproductive Health

Job Location: Kigali

Type: Full-Time Paid

Start date: Immediate

Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

Program Summary:

The International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 encouraged governments to address unsafe abortion as an urgent public health problem and to provide treatment of incomplete abortion (United Nations, 2004). The Nairobi summit in 2019 recognized Safe abortion services and treatment of unsafe abortion as essential package of sexual and reproductive health interventions and as part of a comprehensive life course approach to realizing rights and choices for all.

Every year over 300,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth with 99% of all maternal deaths occurring in the developing world. Unintended pregnancies also contribute significantly to maternal mortality. Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal mortality; at least 8% of maternal deaths are due to complications of unsafe abortion worldwide.

CHAI is collaborating with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) through Maternal, Child, and Community Health (MCCH) Division to integrate Sexual Reproductive Maternal NH approach including ensuring access to legally permissible Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) and post-abortion care, increasing access to essential reproductive health products and services by pursuing global and country-focused market-shaping opportunities and in-country engagement around guidelines, registration, tendering, procurement, and service delivery.

In addition, CHAI aims to support the government to deliver robust, integrated reproductive health programs. Underlying CHAI’s approach is the development of effective, government-led management systems that serve as the backbone towards facilitating program implementation, supports the transition, and enables the government to sustain progress, while also providing for the continued growth and evolution of a country’s CAC program.

Therefore, CHAI Rwanda is looking for an Associate who can shoulder the dual responsibilities of working closely with senior leadership on CAC program strategy implementation and contributing to all program’s deliverables. CHAI seeks a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and communication skills. The Associate must be able to function independently, be comfortable working and coordinating the operations of cross-functional teams, be flexible, and have a strong commitment to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with key government partners and relevant technical working groups for CAC implementation.
• Support MCCH in development, costing, implementation, and monitoring of detailed national comprehensive abortion care scale-up strategy, operational plans, concepts notes and activities reporting
• Support the integration of CAC into sexual reproductive health services in health facilities.
• Support analysis of policy and regulatory landscape to make recommendations and support any policy revisions that may be required around CAC in Rwanda

• Conducting routine data analysis of national data and monitoring against targets, and analytical support for costing and data-driven decision-making around the national scale-up plans for CAC products
• In collaboration with key government partners (e.g RSOG) and relevant technical working groups; provide continuous capacity-building support to health facilities through mentorship and supportive supervision

• Support SRH Program Manager in donor and grant management and managing the operations and finances of the program to meet deliverables within the appropriate timeframes.
• Perform any other related duties

Qualifications:

• Three years of experience in a demanding, results driven, environment
• Master’s degree in Public Health with a medical background (general medicine, nursing, midwifery)
• Exceptional strategic development skills, ability to identify and pursue high-impact strategies in complex, uncertain and evolving environments

• Exceptional analytical (quantitative and qualitative) and skills with the ability to effectively communicate in English and Kinyarwanda (orally and in written form) and to tailor communication to a variety of audiences
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including technical information, and to prepare compelling presentations and reports
• Ability to be effective in high-pressure situations, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and set priorities
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, limited-structure, high-pressure, multicultural environment
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Significant government stakeholder management experience would be a strong added value

Application Process:

Interested candidates should send their applications to:

https://careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/11800/associate%2c-sexual-reproductive-health/job

The deadline for applications is March 22, 2022. Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

Job description

– File physical and electronic documents of the One Stop Centre;
– Maintain an effective cataloguing and indexing of files and regularly update the OSC’s database;
– Classify and store other relevant documents of the OSC;
– Trace and avail land files for exploitation by technicians of the OSC as need arises;
– Issue land file copies to the owner whose original ones are lost in accordance with applicable laws, regulations & procedures;
– Store and take care of deed plans and any other relevant documents approved by OSC.

Job description

– Coordinate, the planning, budgeting, resource
mobilization, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and
reporting related to Business development and
employment;
– Develop and oversee the implementation of actionable strategies or plans meant to localize national policies and the District Council’s decisions pertaining to the promotion of business development and job creation;
– Raise local population awareness on the importance of savings and connect them with business people, entrepreneurs and financial institutions in order to exploit the existing business opportunities;
– Facilitate the creation of business linkages (supply contracts) between local SMEs/cooperatives and large firms by putting in place a win-win mechanism of complementarities;
– Coordinate the identification, updating and exploitation of business and local economic development opportunities/ potentialities available within the District;
– Coordinate employment mainstreaming in District Development Plan and action plans
– Ensure a well-functioning of access to finance forum and identify bottlenecks that hinder access to credit and reimbursement
– Collaborate with companies to identify those in need of support in skills upgrading and link them with skills development institutions
– Coordinate the mobilization of companies and SMEs to host internees for knowledge transfer,
– Serve as a member to the District Technical Coordination Committee and advise the institution on matters pertaining to business development & employment.
– Facilitate the collection of information on job creation within the district that needs to be fed in Labour Market Information System (LMIS)
– Coordinate the employment promotion initiatives at District Level

Job description

– Elaborate the District’s strategy on environment management and monitor its implementation across Sectors and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Organise, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, training sessions and public awareness campaigns meant to disseminate environment protection technologies and measures and promote the use of alternative energy sources;
– Supervise the identification and mapping of both protected and unprotected zones and advise on the preventive and reactive measures across the District;
– Inspect whether practices of individual and non-individual actors comply with the applicable regulations and standards in the area of environment protection and management;
– Maintain, in close collaboration with any other relevant stakeholder, an updated database of ecosystem of the District, analyse the impact of mining operator’s practices on sustainable local development and advise accordingly.

Job description

– Take active part in the planning and or review of the District specific Master Plan and co-supervise and inspect its implementation;
– Prepare, in collaboration with any other involved staff, construction permits to be issued by the District;
– Supervise contractors’ engineering work to ensure value for money and compliance with the technical specifications defined by the District;
– Monitor compliance of ongoing private construction works with the master plan and provide advice to all concerned stakeholders on house construction safety requirements.

Job description

– Prepare and sign at first degree any land-related contract to be signed by competent District officials;
– Provide, in collaboration with the District Notary and Legal Advisor, legal opinion, and prepare documents and conclusions concerning litigious issues involving the District on land-related matters for the Attorney General’s consideration;
– Anticipate any possible litigious risk likely to involve the District on land-related matters and proactively advise on mitigation measures;
– Monitor the conformity of implementation of land use and infrastructure practices with applicable laws, instructions, regulations and procedures.

Job description

– Elaborate a local strategy on inclusive social protection and monitor its implementation at the Sector level, and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Elaborate and supervise the implementation of guidelines for the identification of vulnerable groups and their needs across the District and supervise rehabilitation programs
intended for street children and prostitutes;
– Supervise the selection processes of vulnerable groups identified by Sectors as eligible for public works and social protection programs and check its compliance with established
rules, regulations and guidelines;
– Organize and supervise the implementation of campaigns meant to instill saving and investment culture among vulnerable group members eligible for public works;
– Organise and supervise advocacy campaigns meant to improve the condition of vulnerable groups across the District.

Job description

– Develop the branding/publicity and communication plan of the City of Kigali, ensure its effective implementation and produce periodical reports thereof;
– Liaise with concerned District Officials and staff to seek their perspectives or feedback on issues or enquiries submitted by clients of the institution;
– Maintain and foster relations between the District and various stakeholders;
– Work hand in hand with the Media and Communication Officer to manage, update and disseminate information about the District;
– Manage events organized by the District and coordinate the production of related branding materials;
– Collect data, and carry out press review and keep the authorities regularly informed on the image of the District within and outside of the country, and accordingly, advise the institution on the management of its image/reputation;
– Keep the District staff regularly informed on decisions and recommendations made by Officials and update them on various events going on within or involving the institution.

Job Description

– Gather, consolidate and update aggregated and disaggregated data related to the employment status within the District;
– Develop and keep updated databank on job vacancies and job demands and link job seekers with employers;
– Assist and or advise job seekers in readiness to work program (CV writing, internship, …) and job application technics and link job seekers’ to programs aimed at enhancing job seeker’s skills and attitudes to stand for job interviews;
– Mobilise companies and craftsmen to host internees and apprentices
– Work closely with Sector Staff in charge of business development and employment promotion and staff in charge of local revenue collection to gather employment statistics from grass roots level.
– Elaborate and coordinate the implementation of local strategies and mobilization campaigns meant to promote job creation within the District;
– Develop, in collaboration with any concerned stakeholder, strategies meant to attract investments likely to create local jobs.
– Facilitate in implementation of national labour policy and instructions related to foreign manpower, fight against child labour and elaborate realistic programs and projects supporting job-oriented access and creation of employment of the national population answering the identified needs
– Monitor and evaluate the impact of the national policy and programs implemented to facilitate job creation and access: Implement mechanisms to follow the national employment evolution Disseminate relatives supports in the districts
– Develop and organize a system of periodical meetings between employers and jobs seekers – Organize sensitization campaigns for concerned organizations and employers trade unions
– Identify with them the major issues of labour and employment market and main orientations for labour accessibility

Kanda kumwanya wifuza kureba:

Aquaculture Research Fellow

Biocontrol Research Fellow

Fish Breeding, Physiology and Reproduction Research Fellow

Fruit Agronomist & physiologist Research Fellow

Fruit Pathologists Research Fellow

Integrated Pest Management Research Fellow

Maize Breeder Research Fellow

Aquaculture and Fisheries Nutrition, Feeds and Feeding Research Fellow

Plant Pathologist Research Fellow

Poultry Nutrition and Production System Research Fellow

Roots and Tubers Pathologist Research Fellow (x2)

Socio-economics Research Fellow

Soil Health and Nutrition Research Fellow

Sorghum Breeder Research Fellow

Soybeans Breeder Research Fellow

Sweet Potato Breeder Research Fellow

Traditional Export Crops Entomologist Research Fellow

Vegetables Pathologist Research Fellow

Wheat Breeder Research Fellow

Animal Product Biochemistry Associate Research Fellow (x2)

Animal Products Microbiology (meat and milk) Associate Research Fellow

Banana Agronomist & Physiologist Associate Research Fellow (x2)

Banana Breeder Associatte Research Fellow

Banana Entomologist Associate Research Fellow

Biometrics Associate Research Fellow

Cereal Entomologist Associate Research Fellow

Food Quality and NutritionAssociate Research Fellow

Maize Pathologist Associate Research Fellow

Ruminant Nutrition and Production System Associate Research Fellow

Aquaculture and Fisheries Nutrition, Feeds and Feeding Associate Research Fellow (x2)

Apiculture and Commercial Insects Nutrition, feeds and feeding Associate Research Fellow

Pesticide Scientist Associate Research Fellow

Apiculture and Commercial Insects Physiology and reproduction Associate Research Fellow

Pigs and Rabbits Nutrition and Production System Associate Research Fellow

Potato Breeder Associate Research Fellow

Poultry Breeding, Physiology and Reproduction Associate Research Fellow

Poultry Nutrition and Production System Associate Research Fellow

Pulses and Oil Crop Entomologists Associate Research Fellow (x2)

Pulses and Oil Crop Pathrogist Associate Research Fellow

Rice Agronomist Associate Research Fellow

Rice Pathologist Associate Research Fellow

Roots and Tubers Agronomist & Physiologist Associate Research Fellow

Small Ruminant Nutrition and Production System Associate Research Fellow

Tissue Culture Scientist Associate Research Fellow

Traditional Export Crops Agronomist & physiology Associate Research Fellow

Vegetables Breeder Associate Research Fellow

Vegetables Entomologist Associate Research Fellow

Vegetables Pathologist Associate Research Fellow (x2)

Animal Genetic Resources Management Assistant Research Fellow

Animal Processing Assistant Research Fellow (x2)

Cassava Breeder Assistant Research Fellow

Coffee Breeder Assistant Research Fellow

Farm Power Technologies Assistant Research Fellow (x2)

Food Quality and Nutrition Assistant Research Fellow

Maize Agronomist Assistant Research Fellow

Microbiologist Assistant Research Fell (x2)

Molecular Biologist Assistant Research Fellow

Ruminant Nutrition and Production System Assistant Research Fellow

Pulses and Oil Crop Pathrogist Assistant Research Fellow

Roots and Tubers Agronomist & Physiologist Assistant Research Fellow

Roots and Tubers Entomologist Assistant Research Fellow (x5)

Soil Conservation and Protection Assistant Research Fellow (x2)

Soil Health and Nutrition Assistant Research Fellow

Tea Breeder Assistant Research Fellow

Traditional Export Crops Pathologist Assistant Research Fellow

Vegetables Agronomist & physiologist Assistant Research Fellow

Wheat Agronomist Assistant Research Fellow

Wheat Breeder Assistant Research Fellow

Pulses and Oil Crop Agronomist & physiologist Research Follow (x2)

Job Description

– Collect and consolidate data on specific public (policy) issues pertaining to socio-economic development and record data about death and birth across the Cell;
– Identify socio-economic development needs at the Cell level and accordingly advise on response measures;
– Elaborate, under the supervision of the Executive Secretary of the Cell, programs of community works;
– Supervise the execution of community development and citizen participation activities across the Cell and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Prepare documents to be signed by the Executive Secretary of the Cell and assist him/her in the production of the Cell’s activities performance reports.
– Facilitate gathering data related to the employment status within the cell

Job Description

Collect and consolidate data on specific public (policy) issues pertaining to socio-economic development and record data about death and birth across the Cell;
Identify socio-economic development needs at the Cell level and accordingly advise on response measures;
Elaborate, under the supervision of the Executive Secretary of the Cell, programs of community works;
Supervise the execution of community development and citizen participation activities across the Cell and produce consolidated reports thereof;
Prepare documents to be signed by the Executive Secretary of the Cell and assist him/her in the production of the Cell’s activities performance reports.
Facilitate gathering data related to the employment status within the cell

1. Director of Agriculture and Natural Resources
2. Agriculture Officer
3. Construction Permitting Officer
4. Director of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
5. Environmental Officer
6. Forestry and Natural Resources Officer
7. Billing Officer
8. Executive Secretary of the Sector
9. Land, Infrastructures, Habitat and Community settlement Officer
10. Social Affairs Officer (x2)
11. Finance and Administration Officer (x2)
12. Secretary and Customer care Officer
13. Socio-Economic Development Officer (x14)
14. Accountant
15. Receptionist
16. Investment Promotion and Financial Services Officer
17. Animal Resources Officer
18. Land Surveyor and GIS Officer
19. Local Revenue Accountant
20. Building Inspector
21. Executive Secretary (x7)

Kanda kumwanya wifuza kureba:

1. Corporates Services Division Manager
2. Director of Public Health
3. Social Protection Officer
4. Social Affairs Officer
5. Animal Resources Officer
6. Animal Resources Officer
7. Animal Resources Officer
8. Executive Secretary of the Sector
9. Accountant
10. Secretary and Customer Care
11. Civil Registration and Notary Officer
12. Building Inspector
13. Land Surveyor and GIS Officer

Kanda kumanya wifuza kureba:

Title: Program officer- School of Nursing and Midwifery /CMHS/UR

Program:  Human Resource for Health (HRH)

Job Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Type: Full-Time

Start date: March 2022

Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI Health Workforce Background:

A skilled health workforce is the backbone of every health system and therefore an essential precondition for progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). However, WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries. The chronic under-investment in education and training of health workers in some countries and the mismatch between education and employment strategies in relation to health systems and population needs are contributing to continuous shortages. These are compounded by difficulties in deploying health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas. CHAI assists governments to develop their health workforce by enhancing their capacity to train highly qualified health workers and by strengthening national systems to finance, deploy, and manage those health workers.

CHAI’s approach to national heath workforce strengthening emphasizes three strategies:

(i) improving the quality and strategically increasing the scale of education for health workers,

(ii) expanding and optimizing health workforce financing, and (iii) providing technical assistance to governments to strengthen their overall health workforce planning and management systems.

Two key principles guide CHAI’s approach to workforce development. The first is focusing on the right kind of health workers—from community health workers to midwives, nurses, health managers, general physicians, and medical specialists—based on national need and service delivery objectives. CHAI’s approach also emphasizes sustainability by building the institutional capacity of the schools and universities where health workers are trained, training new generations of health professions educators, and developing systems and individual capabilities within governments to better plan and manage their own health workforce.

CHAI’s health workforce programs vary by country, as they reflect the major barriers and opportunities to workforce development in that specific context, as well as the priorities of the host government. Currently, CHAI is focused on health workforce programming in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Position Summary:

The government of Rwanda has developed the National Strategy for Health Professions Development (NSHPD) 2020-2030, a 10-year plan to strengthen and expand the Rwandan health workforce though improved and expanded pre-service training. The strategy outlines national health workforce targets for 37 cadres of providers, and the necessary inputs to training institutions to scale up enrollment and graduation to meet those targets. The government has created a Human Resources for Health Secretariat (HRH Secretariat) to manage implementation of the strategy. The HRH Secretariat works in close collaboration with the College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CHMS) across its five schools at the University of Rwanda (UR) to implement the strategy. The HRH Secretariat has requested CHAI’s support in the implementation of the NSHPD and in different areas.

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual with outstanding technical skills to assist the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the CMHS in the implementation of the NSHPD at the school level. The Program officer should have technical skills to plan/initiate, execute and monitor routine operations of implementing the NSHPD in close collaboration with the Dean of the School and the Heads of Departments (HODs). In addition, the Program Officer will serve as liaison between the School and the HRHS.

The desired candidate must be able to multitask and work simultaneously on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative tasks and/or small projects and ideally will have worked in the field of health professional education. Successful candidates must have a passion for results, a commitment to excellence, and a demonstrated capacity to work effectively in high pressure situations and able to adapt to fast paced and changing environments internally and externally.

This position will report to the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery and is based at the office of the Dean in Kigali, Rwanda.

Key Responsibilities:

Academic and Faculty Planning 

• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to design and implement a systematic approach for teaching planning and scheduling (including routinely revising) to align appropriate permanent and visiting faculty support, as well as clinical placements and medical equipment & consumables required for training.
• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to ensure that all the mandatory faculty as described in the approved programs specification are recruited on time with focus on the permanent faculty.
• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to develop a detailed plan for in-country and study abroad faculty development related activities including coordinating scholarships.
• Work in close collaboration with the UR postgraduate directorate to organize and implement student’s enrollment related activities from the call for applications up the registration.
• Assist the school postgraduate coordinator and HODs to report on progress of academic activities.
• Other responsibilities as needed and required by the Dean.

Academic partnerships organization

• Support the staff in charge of academic partnerships to develop an effective academic partnerships strategy for the school in close collaboration with HRHS.
• Assist the staff in charge of academic partnerships to identify, develop and maintain strong relationships with potential and existing academic partners.
• Work in close collaboration with the staff in charge of academic partnerships to implement all the activities related to the execution of MoUs and contracts with academic partners and visiting faculty.

Designing, soliciting, and implementing funding for academic and research programs and projects.

• Search and scope academic and research funding opportunities for the school.
• Organise ad-hoc meetings to discuss these opportunities with relevant faculty.
• Support the Dean to develop proposals for funding opportunities, including leading and convening writing teams with content experts, ensuring appropriate inputs are collected and proposals are submitted on time.
• Coordinate the implementation of the awarded grants.

Academic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in nursing, midwifery, health sciences, education, public health or in any other relevant subjects.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience.
• Previous roles in research projects or consultancy work.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to government institutions and preferably higher learning institutions and teaching hospitals would be considered as an advantage.
• Experience working in Rwanda or in other relevant contexts.

Skills and Competencies 

• Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong organizational skills.
• Ability to take a comprehensive, logical, and data-driven approach to solving problems.
• Ability to establish a relationship based on trust with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to independently identify systematic challenges and propose evidence-based solutions.
• Ability to cope with a frequently changing environment and adapt to evolving situations.
• Ability to be reliable, responsible, dependable and to fulfil obligations.

Languages 

• Fluent in English.
• Knowledge of Kinyarwanda and French would be considered as an advantage.

Application Process:

Interested candidates should email a letter of interest (maximum 1 page) outlining how their background meets the requirements outlined above; CV (maximum 3 pages); and the names of three references with “Program Officer, School of Nursing and Midwifery” in the subject line. The deadline for applications is March 11, 2022. Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted. Please click on the apply button below and fill out the form to submit your application.

CHAI RWANDA

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Program officer- School of Health Sciences /CMHS/UR

Program:  Human Resource for Health (HRH)

Job Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Type: Full-Time

Start date: March 2022

Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI Health Workforce Background:

 A skilled health workforce is the backbone of every health system and therefore an essential precondition for progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). However, WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 18 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries. The chronic under-investment in education and training of health workers in some countries and the mismatch between education and employment strategies in relation to health systems and population needs are contributing to continuous shortages. These are compounded by difficulties in deploying health workers to rural, remote, and underserved areas. CHAI assists governments to develop their health workforce by enhancing their capacity to train highly qualified health workers and by strengthening national systems to finance, deploy, and manage those health workers.

CHAI’s approach to national heath workforce strengthening emphasizes three strategies:

(i) improving the quality and strategically increasing the scale of education for health workers,

(ii) expanding and optimizing health workforce financing, and (iii) providing technical assistance to governments to strengthen their overall health workforce planning and management systems.

Two key principles guide CHAI’s approach to workforce development. The first is focusing on the right kind of health workers—from community health workers to midwives, nurses, health managers, general physicians, and medical specialists—based on national need and service delivery objectives. CHAI’s approach also emphasizes sustainability by building the institutional capacity of the schools and universities where health workers are trained, training new generations of health professions educators, and developing systems and individual capabilities within governments to better plan and manage their own health workforce.

CHAI’s health workforce programs vary by country, as they reflect the major barriers and opportunities to workforce development in that specific context, as well as the priorities of the host government. Currently, CHAI is focused on health workforce programming in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Position Summary:

The government of Rwanda has developed the National Strategy for Health Professions Development (NSHPD) 2020-2030, a 10-year plan to strengthen and expand the Rwandan health workforce though improved and expanded pre-service training. The strategy outlines national health workforce targets for 37 cadres of providers, and the necessary inputs to training institutions to scale up enrollment and graduation to meet those targets. The government has created a Human Resources for Health Secretariat (HRH Secretariat) to manage implementation of the strategy. The HRH Secretariat works in close collaboration with the College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CHMS) across its five schools at the University of Rwanda (UR) to implement the strategy. The HRH Secretariat has requested CHAI’s support in the implementation of the NSHPD and in different areas.

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual with outstanding technical skills to assist the School of Health Sciences at the CMHS in the implementation of the NSHPD at the school level. The Program officer should have technical skills to plan/initiate, execute and monitor routine operations of implementing the NSHPD in close collaboration with the Dean of the School and the Heads of Departments (HODs). In addition, the Program Officer will serve as liaison between the School and the HRHS.

The desired candidate must be able to multitask and work simultaneously on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative tasks and/or small projects and ideally will have worked in the field of health professional education. Successful candidates must have a passion for results, a commitment to excellence, and a demonstrated capacity to work effectively in high pressure situations and able to adapt to fast paced and changing environments internally and externally.

This position will report to the Dean of the School of Health Sciences and is based at the office of the Dean in Kigali, Rwanda.

Key Responsibilities:

Academic and Faculty Planning 

• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to design and implement a systematic approach for teaching planning and scheduling (including routinely revising) to align appropriate permanent and visiting faculty support, as well as clinical placements and medical equipment & consumables required for training.
• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to ensure that all the mandatory faculty as described in the approved programs specification are recruited on time with focus on the permanent faculty.
• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to develop a detailed plan for in-country and study abroad faculty development related activities including coordinating scholarships.
• Work closely with the Dean and the HODs to plan and implement curricula development and review to make the programs fit for purpose.
• Work in close collaboration with the UR postgraduate directorate to organize and implement student’s enrollment related activities from the call for applications up the registration.
• Assist the school postgraduate coordinator and HODs to report on progress of academic activities.
• Other responsibilities as needed and required by the Dean.

Academic partnerships organization

• Support the Dean’s office to develop an effective academic partnerships strategy for the school in close collaboration with HRHS.
• Assist the Dean to identify, develop and maintain strong relationships with potential and existing academic partners.
• Work in close collaboration with the Dean ‘office to implement all the activities related to the execution of MoUs and contracts with academic partners and visiting faculty.

Designing, soliciting, and implementing funding for academic and research programs and projects.

• Search and scope academic and research funding opportunities for the school.
• Organise ad-hoc meetings to discuss these opportunities with relevant faculty.
• Support the Dean to develop proposals for funding opportunities, including leading and convening writing teams with content experts, ensuring appropriate inputs are collected and proposals are submitted on time.
• Coordinate the implementation of the awarded grants.
• Work closely with the directorate of research and innovation at CMHS to organize seminars, conferences and/or research days to promote health sciences research and boost collaboration.

Academic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in health sciences in any other relevant subjects.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience.
• Previous roles in research projects or consultancy work.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to government institutions and preferably higher learning institutions and teaching hospitals would be considered as an advantage.
• Experience working in Rwanda or in other relevant contexts.

Skills and Competencies 

• Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates strong organizational skills.
• Ability to take a comprehensive, logical, and data-driven approach to solving problems.
• Ability to establish a relationship based on trust with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to independently identify systematic challenges and propose evidence-based solutions.
• Ability to cope with a frequently changing environment and adapt to evolving situations.
• Ability to be reliable, responsible, dependable and to fulfil obligations.

Languages 

• Fluent in English.
• Knowledge of Kinyarwanda and French would be considered as an advantage.

Application Process:

Interested candidates should email a letter of interest (maximum 1 page) outlining how their background meets the requirements outlined above; CV (maximum 3 pages); and the names of three references with “Program Officer, School of Health Sciences” in the subject line. The deadline for applications is March 11, 2022. Please click on the apply button below and fill out the form to submit your application

RECRUITMENT OF A GENDER OFFICER FOR RWANDA WOMEN’S NETWORK

TITLE: Gender Officer

STARTING DATE: Immediately

LOCATION: Kigali

SUPERVISOR: Director

BACKGROUND

Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) is a national humanitarian non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to promoting and strengthening strategies that empower women in Rwanda since being established in 1997, and has extensive experience in fostering women’s participation and grassroots responses to community challenges.

RWN’s mission is to work towards the improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in Rwanda through enhancing their efforts to meet their basic needs and this is done through five core programs i.e. Health Care and Support, Education and Knowledge sharing; Socio-economic Empowerment; GBV Prevention and Response and Governance and Leadership. Overall, RWN supports and works with over 52 grassroots associations, cooperatives and spaces that cater to over 4000 people within each community across 9 districts in Rwanda. The vision of RWN is to promote a healthy, empowered and peaceful Rwandese society.

We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Gender Officer.

Description:

The Gender Advisor leads the integration of gender sensitive programming elements in accordance with global best practice, donor requirements. The Gender Advisor participates in strategy, program implementation, program monitoring, evaluation in relation to gender integration in the project that is focused on interventions at the community and household level. This include capacity building and technical assistance to government, civil society and community stakeholders. This position will be based in Rwanda Women’s Network

Job Summary / Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership to RWN and Rwanda CSO SDG5 Forum to ensure integration of gender in program interventions.
• Design and deliver realistic and pragmatic gender strategies and programming interventions that will lead to positive gender equality outcomes.
• Track and report against gender indicators and disaggregate data by gender to analyze results within each domain.
• Conduct gender assessments, reviews and audits to assess ways to continually target involvement of women in program activities.
• Review and provide technical feedback on results and project reports to donors in order to ensure quality and full compliance with gender policy and progress towards achieving integration of gender in program.
• Advise and support the programs and partners to integrate gender into activities.
• Develop tools, frameworks and resources to enable better gender integration in the Project.
• Identify successful practices in the project that can be showcased in publications, communication materials and conferences.
• Prepare communications materials that highlight project’s gender equality programming, successes and lessons learnt.
• Contribute to resource mobilization of projected budgets towards Rwanda Women’s Network program goals.

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Hold a university degree in a relevant field (Gender studies, Social sciences, Sociology).
• Experience in successful leadership and coordination in NGOs, especially those working in the area of Women empowerment and Gender Equality environments (minimum 3 years), including delivering and closing projects and communicating with donors and partners.
• Ability to analyse policies, conduct situational research, and develop strategies to effect change.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience in managing monitoring and evaluating programs and financial as well as personnel management.
• Demonstrated report writing skills and strong representation and negotiation skills in English (French will be an asset).

• Ability to integrate and mainstream gender equity and social inclusion into program activities as a cross-cutting area,

  Ability to manage and nurture collaborative relationships at all levels and work across multiple project teams; contribute effectively at senior management level both internally and externally

• Ability to take initiative to organize time effectively within a range of often conflicting deadlines and competing priorities.
• Enthusiasm, creativity and flexibility with excellent interpersonal skills and team spirit to respond to occasional heavy, peak workloads.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Women and Rwandan Nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Application procedure: 

Please submit a motivation letter describing how you meet the desired qualifications and professional qualities, copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees by March 02nd, 2021 to Rwanda Women’s Network by email rwawnet@rwanda1.rw. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Done at Kigali on February 23rd, 2021.

Interested candidates are requested to submit their applications by 25th February 2022.

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Interested candidates are requested to submit their applications by 25th February 2022.

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