VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Position Title: Project Field Officer – YouthCan Project
Vacant positions: 3 persons
Type of contract: Fixed contract
Working location: TBD (in any of the 4 locations)
Supervisor: Project Coordinator – YouthCan Project
Nationality:Rwandese
Deadline:18 December 2021
Context of the position
SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent member association affiliated to the SOS Federation. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda leverages existing community resources to strengthen quality child care and protection through a holistic continuum of care tailored to orphans, vulnerable children, and their families. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda actively advocates for the promotion of childcare and child protection. In Rwanda, SOS Children’s Villages operate in four locations based in Gasabo, Gicumbi, Kayonza, and Nyamagabe districts.
Job summary
The Project Field Officer – YouthCan Project will be required to provide assistance to the Project Coordinator in all aspects of project delivery including budgeting, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and collaboration with project stakeholders.
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 Coordinator in planning, monitoring, and revising plans
- Assist Project Coordinator in compiling donor reports (Monthly, Quarterly, Annual)
- Assist Project Coordinator organizing learning and sharing sessions
- Communicate to the Project Coordinator any challenge met during fieldwork
- 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 (PDB)
- Performs any other duties assigned by the Project Coordinator to ensure smooth implementation of the project
Key Performance Indicators
- Effective planning and monitoring of activities
- Timely completion of project activities
- Tight monitoring of targets & reporting on indicators
- Good relationships and collaboration with project stakeholders
Technical Qualifications and personal skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree (e.g Rural development, Management, Entrepreneurship, and other relevant field)
- At least 3 successive years implementing donor funded projects
- Good understanding of youth employability
- Computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Kinyarwanda is a requirement. Good communication in French will be added value.
How to Apply:
Candidates meeting the requirements shall submit application letter, CV (with 3 traceable professional referees) and copies of education qualification zipped folder. Please mention in the subject of your email “Project Field Officer – YouthCan”. All documents should be written in English and directly submitted to sos.recruitment@sos-rwanda.org not later than December 18th, 2021 at 5:00 pm local time.
N.B: Please mention in the subject of your email the name of the position you are applying for.
Late applications will not be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
“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”.
Late applications will not be considered and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Done in Kigali on December 8th, 2021
KWIZERA Jean Bosco
National Director
