7 Positions at World Relief Rwanda (WRR): (Deadline 31 August 2020)

Position title:

Nutrition and Behavior Change Officer

Department/Division:

Programs

Title of supervisor:

Health and Social Protection Senior Program Manager

Start date:

Immediately

Length of Opportunity:

12 Months

Number of Positions Open:

5

Purpose of the job:

The Nutrition and Behavior Change Officer will specifically be responsible for the coordination, implementation, monitoring, and documentation of Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza project whose objective is to improve Maternally, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices through the creation of evidence-based peer support models derived from existing best practices and social support individuals or systems already in place in Rwandan households or communities. He/she will work closely with all stakeholders at the sector, cell, village level and all peer to peer support groups in the community to ensure all the child feeding practices and behaviors are captured and all programme services are timely delivered, utilized and beneficial to the target population.

Specific job duties:

1. Serve and empower the existing local leaders in the identified cells to ensure effective implementation and coordination of the programme key strategies and approaches aimed at improving nutrition through modelling peer support systems focused on disseminating positive practices already practiced by positive deviant households in the communities.
2. Identify existing peer support systems and practices (in households and communities, respectively) that may be leveraged to improve nutrition practices.
3. Identify positive deviant actors who are or might become linked to these peer support systems.
4. Identify and document positive deviant child feeding practices and behaviors of these actors and equip them to provide peer support by sharing their good practices through identified support systems.
5. Lead the field testing and roll-out of the peer to peer support intervention at the community level.
6. Joint planning and program reporting with existing local community leaders.
7. Ensure project related queries raised by beneficiaries are addressed timely, reported, and documented.
8. Follow up on the expected results of the project activities and interventions implemented on a quarterly basis.
9. Timely submit monthly narrative and financial reports.
10. Prepare and manage the monthly budget to ensure all spending is transparent and provides value for money.
11. Support community leaders and other partners to develop training tools, curriculums and ensure smooth capacity development activities as per the plan.
12. Document lessons learnt, challenges, and best practices and share lessons to the sector, cell leaders, and supervisor.
13. Coordinate with community leaders on all community-based assessments.
14. Carry out other activities assigned by and mutually agreed on with your supervisor.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Minimum Bachelor  Degree in Human Nutrition, Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition, Public Health, social sciences, clinical psychology, agronomy, development studies, or an equivalent related degree.
•  Ability to know how behaviors change, and how SBC strategies can be applied in the design of peer to peer support models.
• Know a list of evidence-based, nutrition-specific practices that have the greatest potential impact on the nutrition of mothers and children under 5 years.
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in conditions with limited resources.
• Strong interpersonal skills are vital.
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, and to deal with problems/issues promptly and efficiently
• Excellent written and spoken Kinyarwanda
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office

Experience required:

• 3 years’ experience in the implementation of community-based programs, preferably in evidence-based nutrition-specific practices, social protection, human nutrition or any other area as mentioned above.
• Prior experience working with Maternal, Infant, young children Nutrition projects or peer to peer support models.
• Experience working with community leaders at all levels.

Physical demands:

Willingness to live and work in one of these districts Rubavu, Kicukiro, Burera, Nyamagabe, and Gatsibo.

Work environment:

Field-based with required visits to Kigali as guided by supervisors.

How to apply

Please submit a motivation letter indicating your top two districts you would prefer to serve in, a copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees and a church recommendation from your Pastor or Priest by 31^st of August 2020 to World Relief Rwanda office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the tests.

Done at Kigali on August 20^th, 2020

Jacqueline Mukashema

Director of Administration and Finance

Position title:

M&E Officer  

Department/Division:

Programs

Title of supervisor:

Health & Social Protection Senior Program Manager

Location:

Kigali, Rwanda

Start date:

Immediate

A number of positions open:

12 months

1

Purpose of the Job:

This role will lead and coordinate the M&E component of the Maternal, Infant, and Young Children Nutrition (MIYCN) Programme (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) ensuring that M&E is embedded within the programme activities; tailored to national contexts and contributes to on-going learning. The incumbent will have strong analytical and research skills; experience in the development of study designs, experience in designing monitoring and evaluation tools for behavior change programmes, and proven capacity to support others in a range of evaluation and data collection methodologies. The role involves supporting the project team, community leadership, and volunteers in the documentation of key human interest stories, impact stories, best practices, and other learnings throughout the life of the project. S/he also contributes significantly to the planning and overall implementation process of the Programme ensuring consistent compliance with the programme design.

Specific job duties:

Lead on monitoring and evaluation for the MIYCN (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) project.

1. Work with the Health and Social Protection Senior Manager and other programme staff to embed monitoring and evaluation into the project. This includes designing the overall approach for M&E within the Programme.
2. Design and roll-out of monitoring tools that will be used to track progress and capture data at process and impact level across the programme geo-coverage areas. These include both qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys.
3. Manage the documentation process of the programme ensuring quality and timely capturing and documentation of impact stories about the programme.
4. Ensure programmatic data are regularly collected, processed, analyzed, and shared time with relevant programme partners and stakeholders.
5. Create succinct reports that will inform program manager, staff, and partners of the progress of the programme
6. Provide advice on needs assessment and analysis, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies in order to develop a consistent and continually improving approach to collecting and using data.
7. Assist others to put in place and carry out appropriate outcome-focused evaluation processes for the project. For example, helping to develop logic models and evaluation frameworks
8. Promote the use of learning from evidence and evaluation and share and promote the use of performance and impact reports across the districts to drive learning, business improvements, planning, and strategy.

This job description is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements of the post holder. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements.

Knowledge, skills, & abilities:

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in  Public Health, Social Sciences, Statistics or equivalent degree in a related field
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office application, statistical packages such as SPSS, Stata, CSPro, or SAS.
• Excellent questionnaire design and programming using any electronic data collection applications (such as ODK, Kobo, SurveyCTO, ONA, CommCare, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal skills are vital.
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, and to deal with problems/issues promptly and efficiently
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in conditions with limited resources.
• Excellent written and spoken in English and Kinyarwanda,  French is an added value

Experience required:

• 3 years’ experience   in the field of monitoring and evaluation, experience in nutrition-related surveys would be a plus
• Demonstrated experience in  needs or capacity gap analysis, data collection, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting

Physical demands:

• Willingness to travel or work in the Programme District (Kicukiro, Rubavu, Nyamagabe, Burera, or Gatsibo)

  How to apply

Please submit a motivation letter for the position you are applying for, a copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees and a church recommendation from your Pastor or Priest by 31^st of August 2020 to World Relief Rwanda Office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the tests.

Done at Kigali on August 20^th, 2020

Jacqueline Mukashema

Director of Administration and Finance

Position title:

Accountant

Department/Program:

Administration and Finance.

Location:

Kigali, Rwanda

Start date:

Immediate

Length of opportunity:

12 months

Title of supervisor:

A number of positions open:                                       

Finance Manager

1

General function:                                                                       

To fulfill the mission statement of World Relief and its partners. Provide treasury and accounting support mainly to our Maternal Infant, Young Children Nutrition (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) Project but also other finance tasks as instructed by the supervisor.

Duties:

1. Verify and ensure all financial supporting documents and all submitted payment requests are in compliance with donor regulations and WRR financial procedures
2. Receive, verify, and process all payment requests and expense reports, and ensure that all financial supporting documents are in compliance with donor regulations and WRR financial procedures.
3. Participate in financial spot checks and training as planned by the donor
4. Prepare the quarterly request of funds appropriately and timely
5. Prepare the financial reports and submit them to the Program Manager and Finance Manager on time for verification and approval.
6. Monitor the budget consumption and then alert the Program Manager if there is over or under budget spending according to planned activities
7. Verify that each project activity budget is in compliance with the approved budget
8. Work closely with the Project Field Officers
9. Participate in MIYCN (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) project financial and accounting meetings.
10. Keep checkbooks and pre-numbered vouchers safely
11. Provide any financial support to the Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza project.
12. Claim VAT refund timely
13. Prepare a monthly bank reconciliation for Finance Manager approval
14. Maintain contacts with the bank to clarify questions pertaining to MIYCN bank account
15. Perform other duties related to the above responsibilities as assigned and agreed upon with the supervisor.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

1. Strong quantitative and analytical skills
2. The initiative, excellent organization ability, with attention to details
3. Excellent interpersonal skills for teamwork in a multi-racial environment
4. Self-directing, reliable and responsible
5. Flexible and motivated team player
6. Strategic thinker and self-controlled
7. The reputation of integrity and patience.
8. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related fields and knowledgeable of UN rules and regulations
9. Excellent skills in MS office required
10. Excellent speaking and writing skills in English and Kinyarwanda. French is beneficial but not required.
11. Effective communication skills

Experience required:

At least two years of Accounting working experience with INGO (especially UN-funded projects)

How to apply:

Please submit a motivation letter, a copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees, and a church recommendation from your Pastor or Priest by 31^st of August 2020 to World Relief Rwanda Office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the tests.

Done at Kigali on August 20^th, 2020

Jacqueline Mukashema

Director of Administration and Finance