Internal Vacancy Announcement

Position: Project Coordinator – Kura Umenye Project (1)
Type of contract: Fixed-term Contract
Working location: Kigali
Supervisor: Head of Location
Deadline: 10th December,2024

Context of the Organisation:

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent member association affiliated to the SOS Federation. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda leverages existing community resources to strengthen quality childcare and protection through a holistic continuum of care tailored to orphans, vulnerable children, and their families. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda actively advocates for the promotion of childcare and child rights. In Rwanda, SOS Children’s Villages operate in four locations based in Gasabo, Gicumbi, Kayonza and Nyamagabe Districts. SOS Children’s Villages is seeking to recruit a Competent Project Coordinator to support the implementation of Kura Umenye project activities in Kigali location.

Context of the position:

Kura Umenye project aims to tackle the root causes of predominant problems affecting children’s well-being and their educational outcomes. The project leverages on a continuum of approaches to address children’s low performance in school including remedial learning, MHPSS, ASRHR and family strengthening initiatives. Kura umenye supports children in 120 schools in 10 districts in Rwanda. It also promotes the socio-economic wellbeing of vulnerable families and ensures Mental health wellbeing of children and parents. The project coordinator therefore supports the project in ensuring quality and effective delivery of the program among the target population. The coordinator supports families, communities, and duty bearers to effectively protect and care for children. The Project Coordinator, supports project development in the field of family strengthening and Reintegration, MH&PSS and ASRHR, and Education and remedial Learning. He/she will be responsible to support children who are at risk of losing the care of their biological family which includes direct work with the children, caregivers, and communities, based on the professional social work practice, ethics, and values to achieve the sustainable development of the families .He/she will be also responsible for ensuring the timely completion of the case management procedures at all stages based on the individual approach and the active participation of children, parents/caregivers.

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

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 To carry out the implementation of project activities according to the objectives, actions and periods outlined in the project document.
 To ensure that the project operates as planned with the organization’s policies and procedures as well as project design.
 To participate and support capacity-building of project implementation beneficiaries and partners
 To build strong relationships with national, regional, and local authorities, and a strong network of associated organizations/stakeholders.
 To participate in community forums dealing with issues affecting children
 To participate in the development of campaigns and public events aimed to promote child rights, positive parenting, ASRHR
 Facilitate the identification and training of community facilitators in the family development process (FDP);
 Facilitate the identification of opportunities and mobilization of local resources for the action plan to meet the needs of each household and community;
 Facilitate the planning of ensuring gender balance in decision-making and all programme processes;
 Facilitate the development, with full participation of the supported households, of an appropriate individual household Income Generating Activities (IGAs)/Business and FS plan to meet the economic and nutritional needs of vulnerable households;
 Organise and facilitate the relevant IGA and FS training of households identified for IGA support;
 Create and regularly update the records and database of IGA and FS-supported households;
 Collaborate with community development structures, other NGOs and government departments for effective service delivery to programme participants;
 Prepare and submit timely progress reports to the FSP manager on programme interventions;
 Understand the synergy and different roles of Family Strengthening Programme team members and other SOS Facilities;
 Supports Kura Umenye managers in the development of services and interventions in the frame of family strengthening and reintegration, MH&PSS and ASRHR, and Education and remedial Learning.
 Conducts comprehensive assessment of children and families in strong cooperation with the multidisciplinary team of stakeholders using different resources and social work techniques/methods to identify family needs and strengths and define the required services.
 Facilitates the preparation of the family development process, with the strong participation of caregivers, children, and the multidisciplinary team.
 Arrange, provide and coordinate the delivery of services to children and families in strong partnership with other service providers and in line with the family development process.
 Play a leading role and support the National Association in project planning and other planning instruments according to the organizational strategic vision and recommend further improvement of the logical framework;
 Assist the Organization in enhancing an integrated process of planning, programming, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, research, analysis, and present information gathered from diverse sources.
Required Qualification
• Bachelor’s Degree in Social work/Sciences, Education, Project Management, Development studies or any other related discipline with three (3 yrs) years relevant working experience in project coordination, community development field, and child protection;

Required Competencies

• Experience in project cycle management;
• Positive and professional approach. Ability to work independently, self-organise, use initiative, fulfil commitments and meet deadlines;
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including written and spoken English; French would be an added value;
• Well-developed facilitation, group leadership and presentation skills;
• Ability to develop guidelines and tools, and oversee their implementation;
• Computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access);
• A team player who is culturally astute, respectful and tolerant;
• Experience in using applied social research skills (quantitative and qualitative).

How to apply

The interested Candidates in this position should send a detailed Curriculum Vitae, Application letter , Rwandan National Identity Card and Academic Certificates/Degrees with three (3) traceable professional references to [email protected] and properly fill the application form found via the following LINK by not later than 10th

December 2024 at 5:00 pm Kigali time.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply
N.B: Please mention in the subject of your email: Project Coordinator-Kura Umenye
Late applications will not be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

“SOS Children’s Villages International holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes”.

Done at Kigali, on 03rd December,2024

Jean Bosco Kwizera National Director