Project Field Officer FS/GREEN Project at SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda kubantu bize Agriculture especially crop protection, rural development studies, environmental protection and related fields: Deadline: 04-03-2022

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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 Coordinator – Quality Care / BMZ Project

Nationality: Rwandese

Deadline: 4 March 2022

The National Office of SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda located at Kigali/Kacyiru wishes to recruit 1 Fiefd Officers 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 one program approach in its education, family strengthening, health and community development programs, that support a holistic approach in the interest of the child. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda therefore seeks to recruit a Project Field Officer for the New Project that will be funded by BMZ.




Job summary:

Under the leadership of the Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator, the field officer supports programme development in the field of FS/Green project in line with the “Vision, Mission, Values”, the brand and approved strategies, policies, guidelines of the organisation and national legislation. Field officer is 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. He/she is also responsible to ensure the timely completion of the case management procedures at all stages based on the individual approach and on the active participation of children, parents/caregivers. He/she is a member of the multidisciplinary team in the programme and coordinates multidisciplinary team work within the case he/she is responsible for.

Programme DevelopmentThe position holder will therefore be responsible for the following tasks:

  • Supports FS Programme Coordinator in the development of services and interventions in the frame of family strengthening/ Green project
  • Supports identification of cases of children who are at risk of losing care from their families of origin through different resources (referral, outreach, self-referral etc.).
  • Conducts comprehensive assessment of children and families in strong cooperation with the multidisciplinary team of stakeholders using different resources and social work techniques/methods to identify family needs and strengths and define the required services.
  • Facilitates the preparation of family development process, with the strong participation of caregivers, children and the multidisciplinary team.
  • Arranges, provides and coordinates the delivery of services to children and families in strong partnership with other service providers and in line with the family development process.
  • Keeps regular contacts with child and family during the implementation of family development process through phone calls, home visits and meetings in programme premises.
  • Participates in annual planning process of FS programme at the location level.

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 module (PDB), ensures quality of data and uses regularly the reports and data stored in the database to track individual progress of children and families. Provides information for new requirements (new reports, new data fields or features) to FS Programme Coordinator.
  • Upon the request of FSP 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 FS Programme Coordinator.

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 Management

  • Supports Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator in documenting good practises, human touch stories.
  • Keeps regular track of latest developments in social work area as well as changes in national legislation, policies and practises related to children in the target group.
  • Training of farmers on cooperative set-up and forming of cooperatives
  • Ability to organize farmer´s days for knowledge exchange on climate smart farming practices, access to markets and loans, advantages of 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 qualification in Agriculture especially crop protection, rural development studies, environmental protection and related fields
  • At least 3 years’ 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:

If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, please mention in the subject of your email the name of the position you are applying for and send us your detailed application in a zipped folder including a signed application letter, CV, 3 traceable professional referees and copies of education qualification.
Application Process

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: https://forms.office.com/r/2xy4LPCUqC

Please indicate in the subject line “Field Officer FS/Green project”. The deadline for application is Monday 4th March 2022

NB: The applications from qualified women 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 at Kigali, 4 March 2022

Jean Bosco KWIZERA

National Director










 

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