Summary
Date Posted:Sunday, May 07 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Description
The Programme Coordinator role will take forward the commitments made in the new Rwanda Country Strategic Plan (2021-2025), whereby an important shift is taking place in terms of increased focus on Climate Change and resilience building. Key approaches used include Market System Based Approaches, integration of women’s empowerment approaches, Community-based Food and Nutrition Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, biodiversity conservation and adopting agro-ecology for support to farmers.
The role will be key in positioning Trocaire as a key actor in Climate Change Action both nationally and regionally. The role is expected to provide support to Trocaire and partners to engage in climate change and climate justice spaces, climate adaptation, climate financing, forums and advocacy work, including UNFCCC processes and engagement with the Rwandan government on Rwanda's NDCs and NAP in ways that prioritise and amplify local voices, especially the voices and leadership of women and WCOs.
The Programme Coordinator will be responsible for the development and implementation of resilience and disaster risk reduction programming (including emergency preparedness and response), through partner capacity strengthening, the development and roll out of disaster risk reduction interventions, as well as community resilience strengthening.

Roles and Responsibilities
Climate & Environmental Justice (Trocaire Goal 2) programme coordination
• Responsible for the development of Trocaire Rwanda’s Climate and Environmental Justice strategic intervention plan and take leadership on the roll out of the detailed technical plans and approaches used.
• Responsible for the development and coordination of implementation of a consolidated workplan across all partners under the Climate and Environmental Justice goal area (Goal 2)
• Responsible for timely and high-quality reporting on activities under the various donor funded projects.
• Provision of timely and high-quality inputs to organizational reports (such as bi-annual reports to Districts, Line Ministries and Rwanda Governance Board; internal annual reports, etc).
• Develop policy & advocacy positions for Trócaire, working in collaboration with partners and like-minded organizations and networks as appropriate.

Monitoring and Quality Assurance
Monitoring and Evaluation of activities and commitments made, through regular field visits, reporting on field visit outcomes, setting improvement targets, and tracking improvements.
• Develop and implement a clear Monitoring and Evaluation plan supported by the MILA and Thematic leads, based on strong baseline data and the principles of participation and demonstrating impact.
• Responsible for quality insurance of Climate and Environmental Justice activities; Review and assess programme progress collectively with partner organizations regularly and ensure programme quality is in line with international, National and internal standards.

Technical Support & Innovation
• Staying abreast of the latest developments, good practices and discussions around thematic areas in line with Goal 2 work, including Climate Change, Climate Financing, COP discussions, Agroecology, Access to Markets, Sustainable Livelihoods.
• Coordinate and roll out of Trocaire Rwanda’s Market System Based approaches across all areas of intervention.
• Lead on capacity strengthening of Trocaire staff and partner staff on issues, discussions and solutions related to Climate Change (e.g. Climate Financing; COP; climate change adaptation solutions, climate change and land use; climate change and gender; etc.).
• Continued learning and providing ideas and concepts for innovation in our program work.
• Active participation and support for partners and other relevant networks in the areas of Climate Change and Resilience.

Programme Administration and Finance
• Monitor monthly tracking of budget spent.
• Manage the approval processes for projects and the programme including grant agreement processes.
• Maintain updated programme documents on the organizational management information system (Salesforce).
• Implement administrative and procurement procedures in relation to the Goal 2 programme pillar to a high standard.
• Ensure that the monthly checklist for grants to partners and the programme ancillaries are updated; and
• Ensure all filing is up to date and relevant files are closed in a timely manner, in country files and on the internet-based Management Information System (Salesforce).
• Coordinating all logistics related to programme activities including field visits, meetings, workshops and process all payments within timeframes as per organization policy

• Partner capacity strengthening
• Coordination, liaising and collaboration with Localization and Partnership Unit for the successful delivery of partner capacity strengthening and localization ambitions.
• Accompanying partners under the Goal 2 work with technical accompaniment, capacity strengthening and identification of learning and development opportunities.
• Supporting partner capacity strengthening initiatives and actively partaking in partner capacity assessments and support (PCAS initiatives).
• Business Development
• Identify funding opportunities and work with BDGM, colleagues across Trócaire Rwanda and Trócaire globally, local partners, and other stakeholders to develop, submit wining high quality institutional funding proposals.
• Stakeholder representation and communications
• Build and maintain professional relations with relevant organisations including MoE, MINAGRI, REMA, MINEMA, development organisations and donors as appropriate.
• Participate in relevant thematic meetings and/or working groups (such as NINGO Thematic Working Groups and Sectoral Working Groups under different line ministries where relevant).
• Representing Trocaire in local and national level functions, where requested by the Programmes Manager or Country Director.
• Actively provide content and input for external communication, such as twitter feeds, high quality pictures, case studies, input for blogs on the website, etc.
• Participate in coordination meetings in-country including JADF and other stakeholder meetings and provide timely feedback to Country Management Team on outputs and decisions reached in such meetings; and
• Accompany visitors to project sites and carry out promotional or media work including stories of change and stories of need as required.
Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned by the line manager that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.

Requirements
Qualification
A minimum of Bachelor in Agriculture, Agri-business, Environment, Climate Change, International Development or similar.

Experience
• At least 3 years of experience in climate related technical programmes (project management and monitoring)
• Demonstrated experience in formulating, monitoring and managing budgets.
• Experience in advocacy on climate and environmental justice.

Skills
• Affiliation, skills and proven track record of external communication means (e.g. social media, twitter, blog, case study development, etc)
• Strong facilitation/presentation and communication skills
• Fluent in English and Kinyarwanda
• Excellent writing skills in English (for report writing, document review, development of advocacy or policy documents, etc)

Strong digital literacy skills, ability to use digital systems, willingness to learn and adapt.
Qualities
High amount of Passion and affiliation required on issues related to Climate Change, Access to markets, food security, agro-ecological approaches and improving livelihoods for the most vulnerable in the society.
• Team player with strong commitment to working with others to achieve mutual objectives.
• Commitment to meet deadlines and provision of high-quality work outcomes.
• Flexible to changing requirements that the role may require;
• Strong commitment to improving the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and to leaving no-one behind.

Other
• Sympathetic to working with the Catholic Church and the Caritas confederation.
Benefits
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.



Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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