Catholic Relief Services Chief of Party I, INECD Jobs in Rwanda

Catholic Relief Services Chief of Party I, INECD Jobs in Rwanda

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS has been present in Rwanda since 1960, and currently implements projects in nutrition, agriculture, youth entrepreneurship and peacebuilding. The Country Program has around 80 staff and implements its projects through local and international partners, with strong coordination/collaboration with Government of Rwanda (GoR) structures. The FY23 program value is approximately $12 million.

Job Summary:

The Inclusive Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (INECD) activity will promote nurturing and responsive care practices, especially in the areas of health, functioning, nutrition, and early childhood development (ECD) for caregivers and children.

Specifically, the activity aims to improve health and nutrition outcomes among women of reproductive age and adolescents and improve infant and young child feeding practices. It also aims to address child development gaps and significant unmet physical rehabilitation and assistive technology (rehab/AT) and social inclusion needs for infants and children.

The activity will focus on community-level service delivery, community-health facility linkages and district level capacity development, as well as address issues of inclusion and participation, including access to programs and services for children and adults with disabilities, in line with Government of Rwanda (GoR) priorities.

As Chief of Party, you will provide leadership and overall management and delivery of the INECD project in the 10 project districts, and represent INECD and CRS Rwanda to the donor, GoR, and other stakeholders to serve the poor and vulnerable.

Your leadership, management and technical knowledge will ensure the delivery of high-quality programming and advance the position of CRS as a leading agency in the field of inclusive nutrition and early childhood development. As a senior leader you will proactively manage security and mitigate security risks.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

Lead all aspects of the development, implementation and consolidation of the INECD project, including sharing how the project contributes to the thought leadership of the industry. Serve as the primary point of contact to USAID as well as public, private and non-government stakeholders.

Ensure the project is designed and implemented to meet donor expectations in terms of timely and quality results and budget, including strategies for phase out and sustainability. Ensure coordination between program and operations leads. Ensure the CRS program quality standards are adhered to per MEAL policy and procedures.

Effectively manage senior programming and operations talent. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching and mentoring. Strategically tailor individual development plans and complete performance assessments for direct reports. Oversee the development of staffing plans and the recruitment process of senior staff.

Manage and mitigate risk through monitoring national and regional issues that may impact staff and programming. Ensure all staff understand and adhere to CRS staff safety and security policies and plans, and ensure the updating of

such plans.

Promote, uphold and model a commitment to the efficient use of agency and donor resources. Ensure compliance with USAID grants, including financial tracking and oversight of partner budgets, finance, administration and reporting to USAID. Approve program expenditures, budget adjustments, and cost modification requests to donors.

Oversee the development of communication strategies and materials, complying with donor and CRS’ branding and marketing requirements and procedures.

Coordinate relationships with consortium partner organizations, including organization of review/planning workshops. Contribute to coordination of the roles and activities of staff from other consortium member organizations in implementation in line with CRS partnership principles.

Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Identify performance gaps and training opportunities for CRS and partner staff and ensure the design and delivery of high quality training and technical assistance.

Lead Partnership and Capacity Strengthening efforts for the INECD program ensuring CRS’ partnership principles are reflected in program implementation and relationships with partners.

Basic Qualifications

Masters degree in International Development, International Relations or a relevant technical area. PhD preferred.

7 or more years’ relevant management and technical experience.

5 years experience managing donor funds, including multi country grants. Strong knowledge and experience in budget management.

5 years of staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching senior program staff.

Required Languages - English, French (ability to speak Kinyarwanda highly desired)

Travel- Must be willing and able to travel up to 25% outside of Kigali to project sites

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.

Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.

Team leadership abilities with diverse/multi-disciplinary teams. Coaching skills.

Strong communications and presentation skills; able to develop tailored and persuasive messaging for varied audiences.

Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.

Excellent English writing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Recognized leader in sector as demonstrated by peer reviewed publications, conference presentations etc.

Demonstrated experience of successful program management, including management of complex, high-value, multi-sectoral projects with nutrition.

Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships. Knowledge of CRS partnership strategy a plus.

Ability to represent and present at high levels.

Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Web Conferencing Applications, and information and budget management systems.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Catholic Relief Services Chief of Party I, INECD Jobs in Rwanda

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