Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 29 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
World Vision is a child-focused Christian humanitarian organization implementing development programs in 30 Districts of Rwanda. Our interventions in the strategic period of 2021-2025 seek to reach 2 million of the most vulnerable children. This is done through programming in Resilience and Livelihoods, WASH and Health, Child Protection and Education.

World Vision Rwanda seeks to hire two highly qualified, dedicated, and experienced Rwandan nationals for the role of Project Facilitator, joining an established and experienced team. This position will be based in Mahama Refugee Camp, and reports to the Livelihoods and Self Reliance Program manager.

Purpose of the position:
The livelihood and Self-reliance Project Facilitator will be responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring the activities of the project in the refugee camps and host communities, through a strong collaboration with camps and host communities’ partners who are involved in livelihood and Resilience activities for a broader and deeper impact on the wellbeing of most vulnerable children in covered areas.

The major responsibilities include: % of time Activity
10%
Participate in the project planning, review, redesign, budgeting, and implementation in the refugee camps and host communities, and ensure that cascaded targets are achieved with allocated resources.
10%
Conduct identification of project volunteers and building their capacity, motivating and coordinating them for enrolling, mentoring, and monitoring beneficiaries of the project.
Facilitate the formation of savings and credit groups and ensure the participation of the project-targeted beneficiaries.
10%
Ensure enrolment and profiling of project beneficiaries in LMMS or other database and/or monitoring software that is necessary for the project to effectively serve all beneficiaries and keep their records on how they will be progressing out of poverty.
20%
Facilitate all project beneficiaries to attend basic trainings and regular dialogues on Empowered World View, Entrepreneurship, and Gender to ensure that they have enough learning opportunities to change their mindset towards poverty and wealth creation.
10%
Mobilize all beneficiaries to join socioeconomic networks such as Saving Groups and producer groups that will help them learn from each other, and synergistically work together to enhance their livelihoods.
20%
Ensure that all project beneficiaries participate in technical training organized under approved resilience and livelihood models which is relevant to their chosen livelihoods’ activities.
10%
Prepare the project beneficiaries and facilitate them for accessing productive assets through the cash transfer approach to support their livelihood initiatives.
5%
Collect data on all the project activities and share them on a regular basis with the project M&E specialist and other relevant staff in the organization.
5%
Contribute and participate in periodic evaluations of the savings groups (Effectively document all information related to project successes and best practices, create a bank of pictures, videos, and most significant change stories on the project)

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
The following knowledge, skills, and abilities may be acquired through a combination of formal schooling, self-education, prior experience, or on-the-job training:

Required Professional Experience
• At least 3 years of experience working with economic development sectors
• Demonstrate ability to foster partnerships with refugee camps, community and/or Government agencies and groups
• Must be familiar with economic development models e.g. Saving Groups, Local Value Chain Development (LVCD), Business Facilitation, (BF), Microfinance, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA), Farmer Managed Natural Resources (FMNR), Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), and CBDRM.
• Ability to construct, interpret, critique budgets, and track expenditures; strong financial/budgeting skills.
• Report writing skills
• Strong group facilitation and training skills
• Good monitoring skills

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
• Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness, Rural Development, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Social Sciences, or any other related field.
• Having a driving license class A.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
• Financial Management and economic development skills
• Knowledge of community development, empowerment, and mentoring approaches
• Demonstrated experience in community economic development and management (own business or by providing business development services), experience with small business financing, market analysis and market research
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation; knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools such as log frames, monitoring, and software such as Kobo Toolbox.
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office and Outlook.
• Experience in Networking
• Business-oriented mindset

Salary:
The salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

N.B: Women are highly encouraged to apply.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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