JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR WFP SHORA NEZA PROJECT
Background
Good neighbors International (GNI) is an international humanitarian and developmental organization in general consultation status with UN ECOSOC operating in 40 countries around the world. GNI in Rwanda is legally registered and has endeavored to improve child sponsorship and protection, health, education, WASH, Agriculture& livelihood, Humanitarian assistance, advocacy, and social economy in 6 districts (Gasabo, Kamonyi, Gisagara, Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, and Karongi).
Overview:
In October 2023, GNI signed a partnership agreement build from WFP’s existing initiatives and aligns with the Mastercard Foundation (the Foundation)’s ‘Young Africa Works strategy’ and address the areas of support identified in the Foundation’s Rwanda’s agricultural sector diagnostic study (attached) to implement Shora Neza Project.
Shora Neza is a five-year project aiming to create new and strengthen existing employment opportunities for young men and women, while considering their different needs, through strengthened, interlinked, and efficient agricultural value chains.
Specifically, the partnership will focus on contributing to achieving the following outcomes of the project:
- Market Access: Increased smallholder farmer incomes by connecting them to premium public and private markets for sales at national and regional levels.
- Post-harvest Management (PHM): Improved quality and reduced post-harvest losses through the promotion of a vibrant, youth-led market for post-harvest (PH) equipment and services.
- Access to Finance: Enhanced linkages to formal financial products and services by project beneficiaries.
In this regard, Good Neighbors International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following positions:
Youth Employment Specialist 1 (Location: Kigali Head Office)
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Assist GNI technical lead role to coordinate the Shora neza project on youth employment
- Provide technical support to the Shora neza Team on the coordination and implementation of the Youth employment Strategy Roadmap;
- Conduct consultation workshops, and meetings with stakeholders to assess their interests, needs, and to make communication easy, transparent, and decisions regarding project.
- Conduct consultation workshops, and meetings with private sector in food systems to discuss opportunities, overcome gaps, and barriers for youth employment
- Collaborate and network with other NGOs, government departments, reputable public, private sector partners working on accessing to finance, youth empowerment and food systems at central and province level
- Mapping and customize the employment opportunities for youth in existing, new, emerging and non-traditional value chains
- Function as liaison and focal point for the National Technical working group on Youth employment
- Capture and extract best practices, story-lines and lessons learnt from the Shora neza Project on Youth employment Strategy Roadmap;
- Liaise with key technical stakeholders (the Ministry of Youth (MINIYOUTH), Civil Society, Private Sector, RYAF, Academia, the UN and its Technical Lead – WFP) to operationalize the enhanced National Technical working group on Youth employment
- Support Shora neza project through Service Providers (SPs) for development and creation of a dynamic database in partnership with Government and reputable partners for employers/self-employed in food systems to fulfill the needs for specific skills and profiles and regularly record of new job opportunities for youth, improved working conditions and market information.
- Contribute to resource mobilization and building partnerships with the various youth employment projects and initiatives;
- Facilitate the development of partnership to enable established Youth-led business model with growth in employment potentials and access to innovative finance with financial institution and private sector
- Support the creation and use of youth social media platforms, and organizing regular and irregular gatherings to link the employers with the preselected young women and men profiles for fulfilling market needs and peer-learning.
- Support the creation and use of monitoring and evaluation tools to track progress on the implementation of the Youth employment strategy.
- Execute and submit regular reports including monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, annual reports, any executions plans, to Country Director, Project Manager, and Cluster Managers
- Perform additional jobs assigned by the Country Director, Project Manager, and/or Cluster Managers
Qualifications and experience required
- A minimum of a Master degree or Bachelor’s Degree (A0) in Development, International Relations, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Youth and inclusive governance, Employment and/or other related disciplines.
- Minimum of 5 years of comprehensive experience in youth and leadership and/or youth and socio-economic development in Rwanda.
- Demonstrated solid professional competence and expert knowledge in youth employment;
- Coordination skills and experience liaising and coordinating with multiple stakeholders;
- Proven capacity to produce high quality reports and comply with tight deadlines;
- Sound knowledge and experience in managing and using virtual, and social media platforms for meetings
- Honest and transparent
- Computer skills: full command of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and common internet applications will be required.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
Application Instructions:
All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, kindly submit the CV as follow;
- Kindly download and fill in the attached ‘GNI Application form’
- Kindly rename and save the file as ‘Name, Position’
- Kindly submit the CV, and GNI Application form well filled through email: gnrwanda.hr@gmail.com, on 13th November, 2023 not later than 23:59 pm.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Good Neighbors International has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm or sexual exploitation and abuse against any beneficiaries (or program participants). Safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s shared responsibility and all GN employees and partners are required to adhere to GN’s Code of Conduct both during and outside working hours. Familiarization with and adherence to the GN Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all employees and partners, in addition to related mandatory training. All applicants interested to work with GNI must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.
