Field Officers at Health Poverty Action (HPA)

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Health Poverty Action (HPA), is an INGO working in Rwanda since 1998, implementing projects on community health education, SRH, WASH, education and poverty reduction including job creation and economic empowerment programs. On a global level our work intends to work with the most marginalized and hard-to-reach in society.

Health Poverty Action has embarked on the project titled: Enhancing Women’s Economic Opportunities, Workplace Conditions, and Gender Equality in the tea sector in the Western Province of Rwanda. This initiative aims to provide work readiness training, entrepreneurship skills such as 'Be Your Own Boss' and ‘Work Ready Now’, and tea plucking training to increase the income of survivors of gender-based violence. The project will be implemented around three tea estates: Nyabihu, Rubaya, and Gisakura, located in Nyabihu, Ngororero, and Nyamasheke districts, respectively. Through safe and gainful employment, this project will increase and sustain the social reintegration of these survivors into their communities. The project also aims to improve the working conditions in five tea estates through gender equality activities.

Health Poverty Action is currently looking for experienced (2) Field Officers to support the existing staff during the project implementation:

Job Creation Field Officers

Reporting to: Programme Manager

Duration: 18 months;

Location:  Nyabihu, Nyamasheke, and Ngororero districts

Field officers based in the tea estates will primarily be responsible for the project's implementation with the beneficiaries, including liaising with the tea estate staff and structures. They will support the training and job creation activities to ensure successful implementation. Additionally, they will be responsible for organizing quarterly sector meetings between the project stakeholders

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all-inclusive):

• Develop as well as maintain a constructive, positive relationship with beneficiaries while assisting them in Work Ready Now and Be Your Boss training, providing guidance and support through daily interaction, and promoting the project beneficiaries’ Personal Development Plan (PDP).
• Collaborate, supervise and/or participate with project beneficiaries in various activities, such as GBV victims’ Accompaniment Groups and SILC groups.
• Supervise the implementation of the project to achieve the anticipated results;
• Ensure that all project components are implemented according to the project plans to meet all goals and objectives.
• Conduct regular field visits, and produce monthly, quarterly and annual reports about the project activities;
• Keep good communications between the project leaders and partners;
• Working closely with tea estate to place into jobs the project beneficiaries
• Work closely with M&E to ensure timely data collection, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting;
• Ensuring that any success stories are properly recorded;
• Ensuring that lessons learned are documented and disseminated for the project visibility
• Carry out awareness training sessions on Gender- based Violence
• Documenting the training workshop and preparing a detailed report of each training including the list of participants and changes in learning outcomes;
• Represent HPA at the district level

Required Qualifications and skills for field officers:

• Bachelor’s or degree in Social Sciences, social work, Development Studies, Management, or others related with at least 3 years of experience;
• Extensive project field skills and experience in GBV prevention and response, as well as job creation;
• Proven experience as a field officer or relevant similar position
• Use of MS word, excel, and PowerPoint;
• Excellent time-management and organizational skills;
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English, Kinyarwanda;
• Capable to work under pressure.

Interested Candidates should send a CV, 2 references, a letter of motivation, and a copy of the degree(s)/Certificate to procurement@healthpovertyaction.org with a copy to hparwandaprocurement@gmail.com OR to Country office, KG 19 Ave, 71, Kigali.

The deadline for submission of applications is the 11^th of August 2024, 4:30 pm Kigali time. Late applications will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Done at Kigali, on 5th August 2024

By Rwanda Country Office