Regional Programme Officer at The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation: (Deadline 21 January 2024)

Regional Programme Officer at The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation: (Deadline 21 January 2024)

Regional Programme Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa

Do you enjoy setting up structures and processes for planning for, and monitoring of results and institutional learning? Assess and dialoguing with potential new partners to see how Kvinna till Kvinna can strategically strengthen their work and help them better capture and share results?

Kvinna till Kvinna is looking for a Regional Programme Officer to join our office in Kigali, Rwanda and our sub-Saharan Africa team. We are seeking a passionate women’s rights advocate who will help us further support the fight for women’s rights by collecting results from our own and partner organisations’ work, develop donor relations as well as expanding our operations to additional countries in the region.

Deadline for applying: January 21^st, 2024

The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation has defended women’s rights since 1993. For every woman’s right to be safe and to be heard. Today we are one of the world’s leading women’s rights organisations, working directly in areas affected by war and conflict to strengthen women’s influence and power. We work closely together with over 150 local partner organisations across 20 countries to end violence against women, reach lasting peace and close the gender gap once and for all. The future is equal. And together, we are change.

About the job 

Kvinna till Kvinna has supported women’s rights in sub-Saharan Africa for over 10 years. As Regional programme officer you are responsible for supporting planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) in the region by continuing to develop and adapt PMEL systems. Furthermore, you will utilise the results and learning to support programme development across the region including in proposal writing and programme design.

In addition, you are, in cooperation with the Regional manager, Grant manager and other relevant staff, responsible for developing and monitoring Kvinna till Kvinna’s partnerships with women’s organisations in Uganda and Burundi.

The Regional Programme officer is based in our office in Kigali, Rwanda but working for, and travelling to all three offices in sub-Saharan Africa (in Rwanda, Eastern DRC, and Liberia) as well as working with, and travelling to partners in Uganda and Burundi.

Key tasks include: 

Programme Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Support Kvinna till Kvinna country team to continue building simple project level PMEL systems that consolidate results from both Kvinna till Kvinna activities and activities of our partners.
• Ensure teams across the region are correctly using standardise tools, frameworks, and methodologies and provide capacity building when needed.
• Develop and coordinate country and ‘regional’ results against Kvinna till Kvinna’s organisation’s strategic priorities/ global indicators.
• Analyse reports and evaluations across country programmes, to understand broader impact, connections across contexts, and lessons learned.
• Where possible, support country programme staff to deliver PMEL focused knowledge development to partner organisations.

Lead the work with partner organisations in Uganda and Burundi

• Conduct organisational assessments of potential new partners, in consultation with relevant staff.
• Being the primary point of contact for 2-4 partner organisations and administrate applications, contracts, and reports from new partners and provide partner organisations with timely guidance and feedback on formats, requirements, methods.
• Assess and monitor the quality of partner organisations’ written work, to ensure that all activities are carried out in accordance with working methods, strategies, policies and expected results of Kvinna till Kvinna, and in accordance with partnership agreements.
• Conduct regular visits to partner organisations in both countries, monitoring and documenting partner organisations’ programmatic results and the quality of their programmatic work, as well as organisational capacity and development.
• Assist the Head of Office/ Regional manager in reporting to donors and Kvinna till Kvinna head office, the key achievements from their partner organisations.

Fundraising

• Support the identification and proposal development for new funding applications including drafting of concept notes, proposal narratives, results frameworks and other technical requirements of the proposal process.

About you

You are self-driven, results oriented, proactive and able to apply logic and strategy to programme design as well as draw data from a large sample of information to yield easily understandable results. You enjoy teamwork and have a genuine interest in communication and relationships with partner organisations and back donors. You understand research, PMEL from means of verification, the different tools of measurements both qualitative and quantitative and which to use/when.

You need to, at least, have:

• University degree in Development Studies, Gender, Economics other relevant fields
• Several years of relevant experience in national or regional programme M&E
• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding and commitment to women’s rights and gender equality
• Experience of using a rights-based approach;
• Proven experience in establishing or further developing basic PMEL system and being able to contextualise a result framework, monitoring tool and expected results to a specific country
• Ability to analyse reports using Microsoft office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Effective communication skills
• Willingness and ability to travel in the Great Lake’s region (Uganda, DR Congo and Burundi), to West Africa and occasionally beyond the continent.
• Fluent in French and English.

Merits

• Experience working for an international non-governmental organisation
• Experience from working in several countries in the region

Terms & conditions and what we offer

This is a full-time position for a period of one year, with possibility of extension
Preferred starting date: March 1^st 2024, negotiable
Location: Kigali

This is a national position under Rwanda labour legislation. Please also note that due to the nature of the work women (legal or self-identified) are highly encouraged to apply for this position.

Your role include travel in the sub-Saharan Africa region (DR Congo, Uganda, Burundi and Liberia specifically) and beyond, occasionally.

Application

Deadline for application is January 21^st, 2024

Please note that we only accept applications in English and through our job site.

Questions

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Malin Brenk, Regional Manager sub-Saharan Africa, malin.brenk@kvinnatillkvinna.se

For information on the recruitment process, please contact our HR unit HR@kvinnatillkvinna.se