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.
Website:
http://www.tearfund.org
Church and Community Transformation Officer
Tearfund in Rwanda is looking for a competent and experienced Church and Community Transformation officer, to Provide support to Tearfund’s partners and local churches and to identify, design, implement, monitor, evaluate and report on projects in accordance with Tearfund’s Church and Community Transformation focus and key indicators.
Tearfund also place great importance on recruiting a Church and Community Transformation officer who has a practical commitment to Tearfund’s values, vision, and mission when working alongside Tearfund’s partner organizations, Churches and denominations.
The successful applicant will have:
Degree or equivalent qualification in development, international relations, or other relevant courses.
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
Do you have the right to live and work in Rwanda and are you willing to frequently travel to visit project sides? Are you an excellent team player? Are you adaptable and flexible? Do you have excellent written and verbal communication in English, Kinyarwanda or French? If so, this could be the role for you!
Applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs. We would expect applicants to be able to demonstrate a clear and specific desire to work in insecure operating environments.
The post involves potential contact with children and the recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues.
Job Title
Church and Community Transformation officer
Group
International
Team
East and Central Africa
Location
Kigali – Rwanda
Responsible to
CCT Programme Coordinator
Part 1 – Job description
1. Main Purpose of the Job
To contribute towards Tearfund’s corporate vision of seeing all people freed from poverty, living transformed lives and reaching their God-given potential.
2. Position in Organisation
Grade 5
Employed by Tearfund Rwanda which is part of the East and Central Africa cluster
Reports to the Church and Community Transformation (CCT) Programme coordinator
Works closely with the Rwanda country programme team, CCT programme local partners, local churches and denominations.
3. Tearfund’s Christian culture
We believe that prayer and discernment is fundamental to Tearfund achieving its mission of restoring relationships, ending extreme poverty and transforming lives. As a Tearfund staff member you are expected to:
Engage with Tearfund Prays and the Prayer hub
Lead or participate in spiritual sessions of prayer and biblical reflection within your group
Be committed to Tearfund’s Mission, Values and Beliefs statement and to be actively working and living in accordance with Tearfund’s Christian beliefs and theory of mission
Maintain your own spiritual development, discover your gifts/callings and grow in discipleship
4. Organizational Requirements
All staff are expected to live out Tearfund’s values as they represent Tearfund externally
All post-holders are expected to fulfill their personal objectives set by their line manager, contribute to their team’s overall objectives, take responsibility for reviewing their ongoing personal development and maintain an awareness of Tearfund’s strategy.
All Tearfund staff share a responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their roles and responsibilities. including identifying the key actions they should take given their roles and responsibilities.
5. Duties & Key Responsibilities
A. 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.
C. 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.
Part 2 – Person Specification
ESSENTIAL
DESIRABLE
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
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
Project Management experience with local/ Christian/ church-based NGOs
Development work with Christian and/or International NGO
Skills/Abilities
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.
Strong IT skills
Open to learn and use new applications effectively
Understanding of effective church mobilization approaches
Personal Qualities
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.
OTHER COMMENTS:
All roles require a Police check
Personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure
Attachment:
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