Description

NB: This is a National position open for Rwandan Nationals only.

Trócaire works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities in over 16 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; people have control over their own lives; and those in power act for the common good.

As the official overseas development agency of the Irish Catholic Church, Trócaire has started to work in Rwanda since 1994.

For the period 2023-2027, Trócaire Rwanda will work in 3 Districts with 11 national partners. In Trócaire 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 Trócaire’s global partnership and localization strategy (2021-2025).

In addition, Trócaire Rwanda’s work will focus on two core pillars of work; Resource Rights (referred to as Trócaire’s Global Goal 2 work), which embeds Climate Change, Agriculture, Access to Markets and Livelihoods work. This pillar of work also includes resilience building of communities in order to better withstand and recover from natural and/or climate change related disasters (such as flooding, droughts, etc).

The second core pillar of work is Women’s Empowerment (referred to as Trócaire’s Global Goal 3 work), which embeds prevention of Sexual and Gender Based Violence, positive Social Norm change, women’s economic empowerment and increasing women’s voice and influence (power within).

The Monitoring, Inclusion and Learning Advisor (MILA) will report to the Localization and Partnership Manager (LPM).

Under the leadership of the LPM and together with two other key capacity strengthening positions (the Organizational Development and Accountability Advisor; and the Resource Mobilization and Grant Manager), the Monitoring, Inclusion and Learning Advisor will play a key role in the roll out of Trócaire Rwanda’s localization and partnership capacity strengthening vision and ambitions.

The MILA has a dual support role; both for Trócaire’s internal monitoring, inclusion and learning initiatives, as well as leading on the development and rollout of tailored monitoring, inclusion and learning capacity strengthening support to Trócaire’s 11 partners.

Key responsibilities include:

(Partner) capacity strengthening:

  • Supporting partners in their Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system strengthening and good practices;
  • Champion, enable and capacitate staff and partner staff in order to be able to implement programmes whereby inclusion is optimally ensured (inclusion in its broadest sense, encompassing people living with disabilities, the most vulnerable populations and women and youth), in close collaboration with the programmes coordinator and project officers;
  • Support partners and Trócaire Rwanda’s country office to increase feedback and complaint handling mechanisms, reporting and adaptation of programme interventions by incorporation of community feedback accordingly (providing guidance to the programmes team);
  • Champion the usage of digital data collection tools and analysis and train (partner) staff in the use of these tools.

Trócaire internal:

  • Be Trócaire’s focal point on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with key responsibilities to ensure that our office/workplace meetings the high standards of equality, diversity and inclusion; and to ensure that these standards are embedded across programming, our internal and external visibility and messaging;
  • Being Trócaire’s focal person for learning and provide guidance and practical recommendations to the programmes team for inclusion of learning and adaptation of programmes;
  • Provide technical support to the programme team to operationalize, implement and update the integrated Programme/Projects MEL plans and to design and implement Results Frameworks for new projects;
  • Develop monitoring and evaluation tools and train Trócaire Rwanda staff on using these in their activity and project monitoring;
  • Participate in Trócaire global webinars and trainings on different M&E topics and be a support function for M&E related activities of the Trócaire Rwanda program.

Requirements

(E) Qualification

Degree in international development, economics, statistics, social science, or a related field.

(E) Experience

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in programme implementation including significant experience in monitoring and evaluation, accountability and learning.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in using the results based management approach
  • Experience in participatory M&E approaches.
  • Experience working on issues of Gender, Vulnerability and/or disability inclusiveness

(E) Skills

  • Technical skills to implement M&E in a gender-sensitive manner, including tool design, sampling, data collection, analysis, participatory rural appraisal and report writing.
  • A passion and sincere willingness and drive to support local and national civil society organizations in achieving their organizational ambitions and support their work aiming at resilience building, poverty reduction and contributing to the National Transformation Vision
  • Being able and willing to find creative and tailored support solutions to each Trócaire partner that will successfully strengthen the capacity of local and national civil society organizations in the domains of M&E, learning and inclusion.
  • Ability to develop indicators, tools and processes for monitoring Women’s Empowerment and livelihoods interventions are particularly desirable;
  • Facilitation, coordination and communication skills, with an ability to communicate to a variety of audiences in a variety of formats.
  • High level of proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and online data management systems such as KOBO collect or CommCare.
  • Excellent spoken and written English.

(E) Qualities

  • Commitment to Trócaire’s Vision, Mission and Values and an understanding of a partnership approach to development.
  • Sympathetic understanding of the Catholic Church’s role in relief and development.
  • Ability to work to deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Strong team player who can establish solid working relationships with colleagues.

(E) Other

  • Willingness to travel frequently in country.

Able to work irregular hours on an occasional basis.

 

Benefits

Reporting to the Localization and Partnership Manager, this is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract (with the possibility of extension) and is based in Kigali with frequent travel to programme locations.

Safeguarding Programme Participants Policy:

Trócaire is committed to Safeguarding Programme Participants from Exploitation and Abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives. Any candidate offered a job with Trócaire will be expected to sign Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Data Protection:

Please be aware that Trocaire Rwanda is compliant with Data Protection Laws (GDPR and Rwanda specific Data Protection Law). In this regard, please be advised that your data will only be used for the purpose of recruitment and will be removed from our systems within maximum 3 months after finalization of recruitment. Data might be shared with relevant authorities only, such as Rwanda Immigration and/or Rwanda Governance Board (in the case where this is explicitly required).

For the successful candidate, please note that (part) of your information will be shared with Rwanda Revenue Authority, Rwanda Social Security Board and for internal HR records.

Application Deadline:

Deadline for applications is on Wednesday 30 November 2022 – 17h00

 

Please note that written tests and interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place between 12 and 21 December 2022.

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