Project Field Officer FS/GREEN Project at SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda | Kigali:Deadline: 06-10-2023

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Vacancy announcement

Position Title: Project Field Officer FS/GREEN Project

Vacant positions: 1 person

Type of contract: One year renewable based on appraisal performance 

Working location: Kigali/ National Office

Supervisor: Project Officer-Green project

Nationality: Rwandese

Deadline: 6th October 2023

The National Office of SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda located at Kigali/Kacyiru wishes to recruit 1 Field Officer for FS/Green Project.


Context of the position: 

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent, non-governmental social development & child-focused organization. The Organization supports vulnerable children and young people in four locations of Kigali, Gicumbi, Kayonza and Nyamagabe. SOS Rwanda applies a holistic approach to child care ensuring that the best interest of the child is catered for. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda therefore seeks to recruit a green project field officer to support the implementation of our green regeneration program in Gashora sector Bugesera District.

The Project Field Officer – Green project will be required to aid the Project officer in all aspects of project/Program delivery including budgeting, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and collaboration with project stakeholders. The field officer is also responsible to support children who are at risk of losing the care of their biological family which includes direct work with the children, caregivers and communities, based on the professional social work practice, ethic, values to achieve the sustainable development of the families and integration in the community.


The position holder will therefore be responsible for the following tasks:

  • Organize and support implementation of activities.
  • Organize meeting and training (inform the participants, arrange training venues, meals and transport of participants, monitor the attendance list, etc.)
  • Ensure good collaboration with community structure and stakeholders.
  • Assist Project/FS Coordinator in planning, monitoring, and revising plans.
  • Assist Project/FS Coordinator in compiling donor reports (Monthly, Quarterly, Annual)
  • Assist Project/FS Coordinator organizing learning and sharing sessions.
  • Communicate to the Project officer any challenge met during field work.
  • Support the work of external consultants during baseline and End-Term Evaluation
  • Liaise with M&E Manager and regularly update the number of reached beneficiaries in Programme Database (PDB2)
  • Performs any other duties assigned by the Project/FS Coordinator to ensure smooth implementation of the project.
  • Facilitates the preparation of family development process, with the strong participation of caregivers, children and the multidisciplinary team.
  • Keeps regular contacts with child and family during the implementation of family development process through phone calls, home visits and meetings in programme premises
  • Supports FS Programme Coordinator in the development of services and interventions in the frame of family strengthening/ Green project


Key Performance Indicators

  • Effective planning and monitoring of activities.
  • Timely completion of project/Program activities
  • Tight monitoring of targets & reporting on indicators
  • Good relationships and collaboration with project/Program stakeholders programme Development


 Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Reassesses periodically the child/family needs and progress in meeting the objectives defined in Family Development Process and make decisions on the case closure, in cooperation with family members and the multidisciplinary team.
  • Enters data regularly in Programme Database (PDB), ensures quality of data and uses regularly the reports and data stored in the database to track individual progress of children and families.
  • Upon the request of the project coordinator and in accordance with the national legislation, communicates regularly with the child protection authorities on the case progress.
  • Supports FSP coordinator in the self-evaluation and/or external evaluation processes of FS programme.
  • Collects regularly information about different indicators as defined in the M&E plan of the programme unit and reports to the project officer.


Partnership building and advocacy

  • Keeps regular contacts with service providers to ensure that services are provided according to objectives and actions agreed in Family Development Process.
  • Advocates for the individual child and his/her family to have access to social entitlements or obtain needed services.
  • Contributes in community development undertaken by the Family Strengthening Programme, i.e. organise/participate in awareness raising activities, community mobilisation events and capacity building of the community partners.
  • Experienced in working in collaboration with local leaders and cooperatives.
  • Knowledge to use small scale adapted Conservation Agriculture equipment such as hand hoe, small tractor plough.
  • Skills on hydroponic barley fodder production on household level to reduce the use of crop residues as fodder
  • Training of farmers on fabricate manure and dung-based fertilizers
  • Adapt method of post-harvest technology in rural areas




Technical Qualifications and personal skills:

  • A degree, Development studies, rural development studies, community development, social studies, environmental protection and or agriculture
  • Having a good work experience in the community development field, child protection, working with cooperatives and farmers and related fields.
  • Experience in project cycle management
  • Positive and professional approach. Ability to work independently, self-organise, use initiative, fulfil commitments and meet deadlines.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills, including written and spoken English; French would be an added value
  • Well-developed facilitation, group leadership and presentation skills.
  • Ability to develop guidelines and tools, and oversee their implementation.
  • Computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
  • A team player who is culturally astute, respectful and tolerant.
  • Experience in using applied social research skills (quantitative and qualitative). Additional skills to support FS families would be an added value


How to apply

Interested candidates in this offer should send their applications to sos.recruitment@sos-rwanda.org The application dossier should contain:

  • Application letter, 
  • CV
  • Copies of education qualification, and 

A mandatory employment application form well filled in, Available on this link: LINK

 Please indicate in the subject line “Field Officer FS/Green project”. The deadline for application is Friday the 06th October 2023 at 05:00 PM. 

NB:

  • The applications from qualified female are strongly encouraged
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
  • Late applications will not be accepted.


“SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda/ International holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes”. 

Done in Kigali on September 28th, 2023. 

KWIZERA Jean Bosco

National Director

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