Climate Change & Resilience Programme Coordinator Rwanda - National Position

Programme & Policy

Overview

Lead Trócaire’s Climate and Environmental Justice work in Rwanda.

You have:

• A minimum of Bachelor in Agriculture, Agri-business, Environment, Climate Change, International Development or similar.
• At least 3 years of experience in climate related technical programmes (project management and monitoring)
• Demonstrated experience in formulating, monitoring and managing budgets.
• Experience in advocacy on climate and environmental justice.
• Affiliation, skills and proven track record of external communication means (e.g. social media, twitter, blog, case study development, etc)
• Strong facilitation/presentation and communication skills.
• Fluent in English and Kinyarwanda.
• Excellent writing skills in English (for report writing, document review, development of advocacy or policy documents, etc)
• Strong digital literacy skills, ability to use digital systems, willingness to learn and adapt.
• High amount of Passion and affiliation required on issues related to Climate Change, Access to markets, food security, agro-ecological approaches and improving livelihoods for the most vulnerable in the society.
• Commitment to improving the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and to leaving no-one behind.
• Sympathetic to working with the Catholic Church and the Caritas confederation.

Description

Trócaire works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities in over 17 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where; people’s dignity is ensured, and rights are respected; basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably; people have control over their own lives; and those in power act for the common good (Trocaire Global Strategic Plan 2021-2025)

As the official overseas development agency of the Irish Catholic Church, Trócaire has started to work in Rwanda since 1994.

For the period 2023-2027, Trócaire in Rwanda will work in 3 Districts with 11 national and local partners. In Trócaire Rwanda’s new strategic plan (2021-2025) the ambition has been set out to become a key player in capacity strengthening for local organizations in the country. This is in line with Trócaire’s global partnership and localization strategy (2021-2025).

In addition, Trócaire Rwanda’s work will focus on two core pillars of work; Climate and Environmental Justice (referred to as Trócaire’s Global Goal 2 work), which embeds Climate Change, Agriculture, Access to Markets and Livelihoods work. This pillar of work also includes resilience building of communities in order to better withstand and recover from natural and/or climate change related disasters (such as flooding, droughts, etc).

The second core pillar of work is Supporting women’s and girl’s protection, voice and leadership (referred to as Trócaire’s Global Goal 3 work), which embeds prevention of Sexual and Gender Based Violence, positive Social Gender Norm change, women’s economic empowerment and increasing women’s voice and influence (power within).

This role reports to the Programmes Manager and will work closely with the Localization and Partnership Unit. The Climate Change and Resilience Programme Coordinator will be leading on Trócaire’s Climate and Environmental Justice work, supporting both partners in their activity implementation, as well as fulfilling monitoring, administrative, budget and project management functions.

NB: This role is a National Role for Rwandan Nationals

Scope of the role

The Programme Coordinator role will take forward the commitments made in the new Rwanda Country Strategic Plan (2021-2025), whereby an important shift is taking place in terms of increased focus on Climate Change and resilience building. Key approaches used include Market System Based Approaches, integration of women’s empowerment approaches, Community-based Food and Nutrition Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, biodiversity conservation and adopting agro-ecology for support to farmers.

The role will be key in positioning Trocaire as a key actor in Climate Change Action both nationally and regionally. The role is expected to provide support to Trocaire and partners to engage in climate change and climate justice spaces, climate adaptation, climate financing, forums and advocacy work, including UNFCCC processes and engagement with the Rwandan government on Rwanda's NDCs and NAP in ways that prioritise and amplify local voices, especially the voices and leadership of women and WCOs.

The Programme Coordinator will be responsible for the development and implementation of resilience and disaster risk reduction programming (including emergency preparedness and response), through partner capacity strengthening, the development and roll out of disaster risk reduction interventions, as well as community resilience strengthening.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

1. Climate & Environmental Justice (Trocaire Goal 2) programme coordination

• Responsible for the development of Trocaire Rwanda’s Climate and Environmental Justice strategic intervention plan and take leadership on the roll out of the detailed technical plans and approaches used.
• Responsible for the development and coordination of implementation of a consolidated workplan across all partners under the Climate and Environmental Justice goal area (Goal 2)
• Responsible for timely and high-quality reporting on activities under the various donor funded projects.
• Provision of timely and high-quality inputs to organizational reports (such as bi-annual reports to Districts, Line Ministries and Rwanda Governance Board; internal annual reports, etc).
• Develop policy & advocacy positions for Trócaire, working in collaboration with partners and like-minded organizations and networks as appropriate.

2. Monitoring and Quality Assurance

• Monitoring and Evaluation of activities and commitments made, through regular field visits, reporting on field visit outcomes, setting improvement targets, and tracking improvements.

• Develop and implement a clear Monitoring and Evaluation plan supported by the MILA and Thematic leads, based on strong baseline data and the principles of participation and demonstrating impact.

• Responsible for quality insurance of Climate and Environmental Justice activities; Review and assess programme progress collectively with partner organizations regularly and ensure programme quality is in line with international, National and internal standards.

3. Technical Support & Innovation

• Staying abreast of the latest developments, good practices and discussions around thematic areas in line with Goal 2 work, including Climate Change, Climate Financing, COP discussions, Agroecology, Access to Markets, Sustainable Livelihoods.
• Coordinate and roll out of Trocaire Rwanda’s Market System Based approaches across all areas of intervention.
• Lead on capacity strengthening of Trocaire staff and partner staff on issues, discussions and solutions related to Climate Change (e.g. Climate Financing; COP; climate change adaptation solutions, climate change and land use; climate change and gender; etc.).
• Continued learning and providing ideas and concepts for innovation in our program work.
• Active participation and support for partners and other relevant networks in the areas of Climate Change and Resilience.

4. Programme Administration and Finance

• In conjunction with the Programme Accountant, produce an annual programme budget, regular cash flow forecasts, and monitor partner budgets, tracking of disbursements to partners, and financial reports to ensure efficient use of resources and effective programme implementation.

• Monitor monthly tracking of budget spent.

• Manage the approval processes for projects and the programme including grant agreement processes.

• Maintain updated programme documents on the organizational management information system (Salesforce).

• Implement administrative and procurement procedures in relation to the Goal 2 programme pillar to a high standard.

• Ensure that the monthly checklist for grants to partners and the programme ancillaries are updated; and

• Ensure all filing is up to date and relevant files are closed in a timely manner, in country files and on the internet-based Management Information System (Salesforce).
• Coordinating all logistics related to programme activities including field visits, meetings, workshops and process all payments within timeframes as per organization policy.

5. Partner capacity strengthening

• Coordination, liaising and collaboration with Localization and Partnership Unit for the successful delivery of partner capacity strengthening and localization ambitions.
• Accompanying partners under the Goal 2 work with technical accompaniment, capacity strengthening and identification of learning and development opportunities.
• Supporting partner capacity strengthening initiatives and actively partaking in partner capacity assessments and support (PCAS initiatives).

6. Business Development

• Identify funding opportunities and work with BDGM, colleagues across Trócaire Rwanda and Trócaire globally, local partners, and other stakeholders to develop, submit wining high quality institutional funding proposals.

7. Stakeholder representation and communications

• Build and maintain professional relations with relevant organisations including MoE, MINAGRI, REMA, MINEMA, development organisations and donors as appropriate.
• Participate in relevant thematic meetings and/or working groups (such as NINGO Thematic Working Groups and Sectoral Working Groups under different line ministries where relevant).
• Representing Trocaire in local and national level functions, where requested by the Programmes Manager or Country Director.
• Actively provide content and input for external communication, such as twitter feeds, high quality pictures, case studies, input for blogs on the website, etc.
• Participate in coordination meetings in-country including JADF and other stakeholder meetings and provide timely feedback to Country Management Team on outputs and decisions reached in such meetings; and
• Accompany visitors to project sites and carry out promotional or media work including stories of change and stories of need as required.

Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned by the line manager that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.

Benefits

Safeguarding Programme Participants-Children & Adults

Trócaire is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse, and has clear expectations of all staff. Please ensure to click here for more information on Trócaire’s safeguarding policies.

We welcome diverse applicants to join our inclusive workforce.

Trócaire is an equal opportunities employer. We are an organisation that embraces diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to bring their experiences and perspectives to Trócaire.

Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities can be provided to support participation in the recruitment process when requested and indicated in the application or by contacting [email protected]. See our Diversity and Inclusion statement here

Requirements

Qualification

A minimum of Bachelor in Agriculture, Agri-business, Environment, Climate Change, International Development or similar.

Experience

· At least 3 years of experience in climate related technical programmes (project management and monitoring)

· Demonstrated experience in formulating, monitoring and managing budgets.

· Experience in advocacy on climate and environmental justice.

Skills

· Affiliation, skills and proven track record of external communication means (e.g. social media, twitter, blog, case study development, etc)

· Strong facilitation/presentation and communication skills

· Fluent in English and Kinyarwanda

· Excellent writing skills in English (for report writing, document review, development of advocacy or policy documents, etc)

· Strong digital literacy skills, ability to use digital systems, willingness to learn and adapt.

Qualities

· High amount of Passion and affiliation required on issues related to Climate Change, Access to markets, food security, agro-ecological approaches and improving livelihoods for the most vulnerable in the society

· Team player with strong commitment to working with others to achieve mutual objectives.

· Commitment to meet deadlines and provision of high-quality work outcomes.

· Flexible to changing requirements that the role may required

· Strong commitment to improving the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and to leaving no-one behind.

Other

· Sympathetic to working with the Catholic Church and the Caritas confederation.

Please note that applications should be made solely through the Workable System and with a deadline of Sunday 15 September midnight CAT.

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