Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Manager to build and lead the Rwanda Country team to deliver a diverse portfolio of partnerships along with programmatic and advocacy activities and make significant impact on the lives of vulnerable children in a fast-paced, forward-thinking organisation.
You will be comfortable managing a mixed portfolio of existing partnerships, allocating resources where necessary while you focus on cultivating new strategic relationships with key government, institutional, national and international stakeholders to advance the organisation’s work in country. You will provide sound advice to the Senior Management Team on programming opportunities, national and regional trends concerning the organisation’s prioritised areas and ensure overall quality of programme implementation in Rwanda. You will also ensure the highest standards of international NGO governance and compliances to INGO obligations in Rwanda. As well as building the capacity of your team, you will also represent the organisation at external meetings and events, sharing best practices.
You will have a high degree of leadership acumen, thriving in situations where you can think on your feet and work creatively with limited resources to achieve your goals. You will have a knowledge of result-based management and a willingness to foster new relationships to deliver the organisation’s 3-year Programme Strategy. Reporting directly to the Director of Programme Development (DoP) of the organisation you will be leading and managing a small team as well as leading the Safeguarding responsibilities of the country office in liaison with all partners.
As part of the Programmes Team, you will play a significant role in the growth and development of the charity’s invaluable work in East Africa, working closely with the DoP and Finance personnel to ensure the Rwanda office is united behind a common vision for the organisation. With the continuous growth of the organisation, there will be opportunities for career development such as overseeing regional country offices.
About Chance for Childhood
Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and kids behind bars. Our vision is of a world where no child is forgotten!
We work with and strengthen the capacity of African visionary community leaders and governments to implement locally-relevant yet far-reaching projects that create lasting change within the Justice, Education and Social Protection sectors. This enables us to focus on ‘hard to reach’ children, both in terms of their complex needs (e.g. street children with learning difficulties) and location (e.g. urban violent slums or remote rural areas).
Our strong ethos of partnership and collaboration continues to be the driver of achieving impact at scale. Together with our partners, we make ideas and impact both sustainable and scalable to protect, educate and empower even more of the world’s most disadvantaged children.
We believe that the only way to break the vicious cycle of poverty and exclusion is through an approach tailored to the unique needs and situation of each child. We tackle the root causes of exclusion and vulnerability and work with the child, their family and the wider community to create lasting change.
To maximise our impact and make effective use of our resources, we focus our work on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – five countries facing extreme poverty, inequality, conflict and forced displacement.. .

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Job application procedure
  Please send in a one-page Letter of Motivation and a three-page maximum CV in English to apply@chanceforchildhood.org  . Please put subject line as ‘Country Representative – First and Last name’.
Chance for Childhood is an equal opportunities employer.
Rwandan nationals are encouraged to apply.
Shortlisted candidates are requested to review Chance for Childhood’s Child Safeguarding Policy. Please download the policy via link: https://chanceforchildhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Chance-for-Childhood-Child-Safeguarding-Policy-2018.pdf  . The successful candidate must review and agree to comply to Chance for Childhood’s Child Safeguarding Policy prior to starting the position, including having a clean local Police Clearance check.
We appreciate the interest of all candidates, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Suitable candidates are encouraged to apply early and might be called in for an introductory discussion before the deadline.
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