Internal Vacancy Announcement

Position: FSP Field Officer (2)
Type of contract: Fixed term
Working location: Kigali
Supervisor: FSP Coordinator

Deadline: 10th December,2024

Context of the position:

SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is an independent, non-governmental social development & child-focused organization. The Organization supports vulnerable children and young people in four locations of Kigali, Gicumbi, Kayonza and Nyamagabe. SOS Rwanda applies a holistic right-based approach to improve the quality of vulnerable children’s life and their families. The family strengthening program supports in the prevention of child family separation and SOS leverages on its impact to scale up interventions that promote child rights, child protection, family economic wellbeing and enhanced gatekeeping. SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda therefore seeks to internally recruit two Field Officers to support the implementation of family strengthening program across for program locations (Kigali, Byumba, Kayonza and Gikongoro).

The FSP Field Officer is responsible for facilitating the capacity building of FSP supported families, communities and duty bearers to effectively protect and care for children in collaboration with local authorities to enable children who are at risk of losing the care of the families to grown within a caring family environment.
Key performance areas and main responsibilities:
 Facilitate the formation and development of Community Task Force to spearhead the programme;
 Facilitate the identification and training of community facilitators in Family Development Planning.
 Maintaining and updating files for programme participants.
 Support Community Task Force, families and communities in the assessment of root causes leading to child abandonment at family and community levels through use of appropriate participatory tools.
 Support the programme coordinator in the consolidation of Family Development Plans and preparation of budgets relevant to the attainment of programme’s goal.
 Facilitate families’ access to essential services required to fulfil their children’s developmental needs and rights;
 Facilitate the development, with full participation of the supported households, of an appropriate individual household IGA/business & FS plan to meet the economic & nutritional needs of vulnerable households;
 Organise and facilitate the relevant IGA & FS training of households identified for IGA support;
 Identify opportunities for OVC supportive partnerships within the programme area;
 Make a recommendation as to whether a family (or individual child) should exit the programme. Submit this recommendation to the programme Manager, for consideration by the programme management structure;
 Carry out regular home visits to families on the programme and write home visit reports.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:

Required Qualification

 Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Sociology, Development Studies, Rural Development, Education or any other related discipline with at least one (1) year of relevant experience in implementing community development or OVC support programmes.

Required Competencies

 Understanding and ability to apply community development participatory methodologies.
 Having Skills in driving motorcycle (Possession of a driving license category A) will be an added advantage.

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 at 5:00 pm Kigali time.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply

N.B: Please mention in the subject of your email: FSP Field Officer.

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