Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. .

Job Description
Roles and responsibilities:
Under the overall leadership and guidance of the MINALOC SPIU Coordinator, the incumbent will have the following responsibilities.
• Participate in the preparation of annual plans, budgets and performance contracts by the project and ensure a successful alignment to government’s strategic direction of transformative leadership and citizens’ engagement;
• Contribute to the development of tools, templates, procedures for the implementation of the proximity coaching program and their continuous improvement;
• Facilitate a participatory process of analyzing the extreme poverty problem in order to identify remedial measures at different levels, gaps to be addressed in the area of focus;
• Facilitate elaboration of plans to overcome the identified challenges/gaps by those concerned by the identified problem at community level;
• Proactively monitor implementation as part of accompanying, and advise on challenges and evaluate the plans under implementation in the project implementation framework and through proximity coaching volunteers;
• Support beneficiary districts to continuously work out and implement strategies to sustain the results of the project;
• Contribute to continuous improvement of and sustainability strategy of project activities;
• Participate in formal reviews and evaluations
• Support the documentation of successes, challenges and lessons learnt
• Prepare quarterly briefings to MINALOC senior management
• Coordinate the work of community coaching volunteers through site/ground visits, management and coordination meetings with districts coaching volunteers to assess project activities progress
• Follow up on districts coaching volunteers monthly quarterly reports and compile those reports in the appropriate templates, preparation of project annual report, results oriented monitoring
• Continuously provide project activities;
• Any other responsibility assigned by the supervisor to respond to the project expectations
Reporting arrangement
LG Capacity Development Specialist shall be formally line managed by the Single Project Implementation Unit Coordinator.
In addition, the position holder will closely work with all MINALOC departments and stakeholders as the need be.
• Strong experience to engage with Local Government Leadership;
• Experience and demonstrated knowledge in the concepts, approaches and practices in social protection, governance, poverty reduction and Knowledge of International evidence and best practice in transformational leadership;
• Ability to translate theoretical knowledge into practical applications in the context of transformative citizens’ engagement;
• Track record of contributing effectively to national strategy and policy development in the economic development sector;
• Strong experience in monitoring and evaluation, including managing independent reviews and evaluations;
• Good knowledge of Rwanda’s decentralised governance framework Rwanda;
• Experience on people’s management, facilitation skills, ability to coach and transfer knowledge to others
• Good knowledge of Rwanda’s public financial management framework;
• Strong planning and budgeting skills;
• Experience of developing and delivering training to Government officials;
• IT literate, excellent skills in Excel and Word and power point presentation;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills;
• Strongly results oriented and able to manage a complex and multi faceted workload;
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda and English are essential, knowledge of French is an asset;

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Profile
• Master’s degree in Public Administration, Management, Strategic Management, Project Management, Economics, Development studies, Social sciences, Political sciences with experience of three years (03) in related field or Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Management, Strategic Management, Project Management, Economics, Development studies, Social sciences, Political sciences with experience of five years (05);

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: 5 years

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