Sustainable Development Manager at Trócaire: (Deadline 9 February 2022)

Trócaire is the official overseas development and humanitarian agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland and one of Ireland’s largest development organisations. Trócaire works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities in over 27 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where; people’s dignity is ensured and rights are respected; basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably; where people have control over their own lives; those in power act for the common good.

Trócaire in Rwanda works in 7 out of 30 Districts with 16 national partners and focuses on 3 main areas – Resource Rights which builds on our previous Livelihoods work, Women’s Empowerment, and preparing and responding to emergencies.

In Trocaire Rwanda’s new strategic plan (2021-2025) the ambition has been set out to become a key player in capacity strengthening for local organizations in the country. This is in line with Trocaire’s global partnership and localization strategy (2021-2025).

This position is a senior role reporting directly to the Country Director and responsible for leading Trocaire Rwanda’s localization initiatives and ambition. The role will involve setting up the sustainable development unit, while also fundraising for its implementation and recruitment of a capacity strengthening team. The role will have a portion (50%) allocated to support the Trocaire Rwanda office in its business development efforts.

Please note that this is a National Position open for Rwandan Nationals only.

Overarching:

Lead the development and implementation of the localization and local organization capacity strengthening ambitions as per Trocaire Rwanda’s new Country Strategic Plan for 2021-2025.

Business Development (50%)

• Lead the prepositioning of Trocaire in the sustainable development and capacity strengthening domain. This includes identification of funding and partnering opportunities; develop capacity statements, setting up of meetings and develop submissions and manage grants obtained.
• Coordinate with Trocaire’s Global Partnership and Funding Unit and/or consultants for the development of high-quality funding proposals where required.
• Lead the review and implementation of Trócaire’s country institutional funding strategy, in line with country programme needs and institutional funding landscape and opportunities.
• Support Trocaire Rwanda’s business development efforts where feasible.

Sustainable Development, Localisation & Partnership (50%)

The key duties and responsibilities can be divided into three subcategories as follows:

• Strategic leadership of the Sustainability Development Unit
• Leading the development and evolution of Trócaire Rwanda’s capacity strengthening work
• Leading/being the focal point for Trócaire Rwanda’s work on localisation

Requirements

Qualification

Tertiary education in Development, Humanitarian, Business Administration or related field of study

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience working in overseas development and/or the humanitarian sector;
• Demonstrated experience of working with local organisations in transformative processes that strengthened their capacities, voice and influence, and levels of funding.
• Familiarity and affiliation with localisation policy instruments (e.g. Grand Bargain) and familiarity with current debates on localisation.
• Experience working in international settings and different countries
• Project cycle management using results frameworks and/ or logical frameworks including MEAL systems and processes;
• Training/capacity building in a multi-cultural environment

Skills

• Keen interest and excitement in sustainable development and capacity strengthening;
• Proven strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively, analyse and be innovative, set priorities, manage work plans, and evaluate progress.
• Experience working with civil society partners and good understanding of partnership approach.
• Critical thinking on organizational development
• Detail-oriented, flexible, and able to handle multiple concurrent tasks
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team
• Able to quick build cross-cultural relationships with teams and partners
• Highly developed relationship, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent facilitation & capacity-building skills and experience of applying them when working with individual partners or groups of partners.
• Excellent written, oral, and presentational communications skills.
• Computer literacy skills in word, excel, and internet/email.
• Fluency in English

Benefits

The position is part of the Country Management Team and for the candidate with the required experience and passion for the role, Trócaire offers a competitive package of salary and benefits.

Reporting to the Country Director, this is a Fixed Term Contract of 2 years (with the possibility of extension) and is based in Kigali with frequent travel to programme locations, Ireland, or other locations.

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