Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 09, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Tearfund an International Christian relief and Development Organisation founded by churches in the United Kingdom fifty years ago. In Rwanda, Tearfund has worked with the Church for forty one years. Our work focus on community empowerments, in partnership with the local church to enable people achieve whole-life transformation. .

Job Responsibilities
Projects and budget management
• Provide support to partners and local churches and denominations to identify, design, implement, monitor, evaluate and report on projects in accordance with Tearfund’s Church and Community Transformation focus and key indicators.
• Provide programmatic and project management support to the CCT programme coordinator, partners, local churches and denominations to implement the CCT approach.
• These will include co-designing and review of partner proposal on TRACK, review of partner narrative and financial reports, preparation of donor and supporter reports and briefs, preparation and compiling case studies and stories of changes for dissemination and learning.
• Provide support to partners and the Tearfund CCT Coordinator to ensure Church leaders are envisioned, facilitators trained, and local churches are mobilized and implement the CCT approach in their communities.
• Provide financial and budget management support to the CCT programme coordinator to develop, and implement a CCT programme budget against approved programme objectives
• Support processes by which the Tearfund assesses and effectively manages the organisational and financial risk of partners; and ensure that CCT programmes and projects comply with quality standards.
• To identify and follow up on Partner capacity development priorities and action plans for improved local partner capacity development.
B. Monitoring, evaluation and information management
• Design and implement project monitoring plans and tools, to ensure CCT project outcomes are tracked and achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope, in line with Tearfund’s project management systems.
• Build the capacity of local partners on monitoring and evaluation data collection and analysis procedures and tools
• Source, collate and compile data and information to identify emerging issues, track and report on project progress against established milestones and deliverables to inform decision making.
• Identify key lessons learned from CCT activities reviews/evaluations and disseminate to partners, local stakeholders, country programme and global stakeholders.
• Support the drafting of institutional funding concept notes and proposals by providing the required information and technical inputs to the Grants Information Coordinator.
Internal and external relations management
• Build positive working relationships with local partners, church and denomination leaders to support implementation and scale-up of CCT in Rwanda.
• Represent Tearfund internally and externally if and when delegated by the CCT coordinator or by the Country programme team.
• As part of the country programme team, promote conditions for effective teamwork and commitment to Tearfund values and operating principles.

Job Skills: Not specified

Job Qualifications
• Degree or equivalent qualification in development, international relations, or other relevant course.
• Evidence of further relevant study and learning in social/rural development
• An understanding of Christian relief and development issues
• Experience in project design, planning, and management,
• Experience budgeting and budget management
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of development projects
• Proven capacity-building experience especially for churches and church leaders in integral mission-related work.
• Community development work especially working with the local church
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, Kinyarwanda and/or French
• Excellent interpersonal skills including sensitivity in cross-cultural communications.
• Ability to collate, analyze and report data in a clear and coherent manner
• Ability to organize and manage one’s own work
• Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
• Ability to influence in a diplomatic manner
• Ability to work with children or vulnerable people in an appropriate and safe manner in accordance with the Tearfund Safeguarding policies.
• Committed Christian, emotionally and spiritually mature.
• Strength of character that can persevere with initiatives and prove their appropriateness and potential despite pressure otherwise
• Team player – in the sense of being practical, desire to support the Tearfund team and partner staff to do the right thing right.
• Able to enable people to solve their problems for themselves and belief in the innate capacity of all people to be able to do this
• Able to continually understand the role they need to play to enable the system they work in and on to function effectively and efficiently to release people from poverty
• Understanding and sensitivity to cross-cultural issues in Rwanda
• Committed to enabling people living in poverty transform their lives with their own resources
• Flexible and adaptable to ever-changing environments
• Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Diplomatic and determined
• An understanding of and a commitment to Tearfund’s Mission, Values and Beliefs Statement.

Job Education Requirements: Not specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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