JOB ADVERTISEMENT:
CARE International is seeking to recruit a “Program Quality and Learning(PQL) Director”.
Introduction
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE International aims to be a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty.
Overview of the Role
Job Purpose Statement
The Program Quality and Learning (PQL) Director provides strategic leadership to enhance program quality and to ensure that CARE Rwanda’s programs achieve the desired beneficial impact in the lives of vulnerable women and girls. S/he manages the program quality and learning unit team which is focused on resource mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation, accountability and learning of programs and projects, external communications.
Under his/her strong technical leadership, the KL&O unit is responsible for building the capacity of country office and partner staffs to ensure that programs are implemented in alignment with CARE’s standards for quality and accountability, along with delivering measurable results towards CARE’s mission of reducing poverty and social injustice. This means ensuring that systems, policies, procedures, and people are in place to ensure quality implementation of those projects and programs. S/he also plays a strong resource mobilization and technical leadership role in ensuring that the country office has a robust and diverse donor funding base.
The role will focus on enhancing CARE Rwanda’s impact through innovative approaches, evaluating results and packaging evidence that promotes positioning of the CO, the replication and scale-up of effective program approaches/models, providing thought leadership and innovating thinking in the search for programming strategies that result in lasting changes.
In addition, the PQL Director is responsible for monitoring risk mitigation, accountability, and compliance with SOPs, supporting the program Implementation to take any corrective actions required to ensure achievement of goals.
Requirements for the Role
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Development Management or Social Science or Development Studies
- Post-graduate qualifications in a relevant field of work
Experience required:
- 5-8 years in senior management position in development field
- Demonstrated experience in leading strategic and operational planning
- Demonstrated experience in setting up KML systems
- Experience developing/building, leading and managing a multi-disciplinary team
Technical skills
- Strategic and operational Management
- Familiarity with the main conceptual frameworks underpinning gender analysis, women’s empowerment, rights-based programming and the underlying causes of poverty.
- Extensive conceptual skills including strategic and technical analysis
- Proven ability to lead and deliver innovation – comfort with novel ideas, approaches, information
- People/Relationship Management
- Demonstrated self-awareness, leadership and interpersonal skills
- Strong human resource management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management;
- Demonstrated interest and ability to give feedback, develop, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results;
- Financial Management
- Knowledge and experience with financial management as demonstrated by ability to:
- Design and manage a budget
- Effectively contribute to CO risk management.
- Ensure donor compliance and reporting
- Information/Knowledge Management
- Demonstrated ability to establish a learning culture within the CO and to facilitate knowledge sharing across CARE
- Strong facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to effectively transfer skills
- CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We are an equal opportunity employer promoting gender, equity, diversity and Inclusion. CARE’s focus as an organization is to empower women and girls as we strongly believe that they are most affected by poverty. In line with our values, we highly encourage women to apply for this position.
- We are committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework.
- CARE International has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of any person or child by any of our staff, or partners. CARE International reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.
- We participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, child abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
- By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that they have no objection to CARE International requesting the information specified above.
Interested candidates should send their both combined cover letter and well-detailed CV no later than 17th November 2023 via the apply button below.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps.
*Disclaimer: CARE International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment.
