Vacancy title:
Resource Rights Project Officer

Jobs at:
Trócaire Rwanda

Deadline of this Job:
Friday 7 June 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
Trócaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland, established in 1973 and currently has presence in more than 17 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia including Rwanda. Trócaire has been operating in Rwanda since 1994 and is currently implementing a 5 year Strategic plan from 2016-2020 focused on 3 programme pillars: Resource Rights, Women’s Empowerment and Preparing and Responding to Emergencies. Trócaire does not implement programme directly. Instead the organisation works in partnership with local civil society and Catholic organisations in 7 districts in Rwanda.
A Resource Rights Project Officer role has arisen within our office for the period 15 September 2018 to 31 January 2019. This role will work closely with the Resource Rights Programme Officer to take forward the commitments of the Rwanda Country Strategic Plan (2016-2020) towards management and use of natural resources and will support on Programme design, implementation, monitoring and learning. The role will also lead on management of an agreed number of partners from the context analysis, project initiation, grant management, monitoring and closure as appropriate.

Specific responsibilities:

• Contribute to overall country programme cycle management in general and resource rights pillar in particular;
•  In line with integration, contribute to overall country programme cycle management in general and resource rights programme in particular;
• Support the Programme Manager and Programme Officer to build and maintain professional relations with relevant organisations and institutions including Ministry of Environment, Local Government, Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI), development organisations and donors as appropriate;
• Participate in several 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
• Support the Resource Rights Programme Officer ensuring strong learning and knowledge management of Trócaire existing and emerging practices on Natural Resource Rights are included in integrated programming.
  The role suits a team player, someone who is passionate about development and one who will be available for 4.5 months from 15 September 2018 to 31 January 2019.

Expected skills, competencies and qualifications:
1. At least Bachelor’s Degree in Water Management, Environment protection, Agriculture or related fields.
2. 3 years progressive experience in Agriculture & Water management & Working with the communities preferably in an International NGO.
3. Experience in Climate change adaptation and DRR approaches, Community planning process, Community catchment protection, Protection/Rehabilitation of water resources, Water harvesting systems, Irrigation techniques, and working with Civil society organisations is strongly required.
The role is expected to make recommendations to the Resource Rights Programme Officer and Programme Manager on areas that require improvements in terms of programme cycle Management and partnerships.

Commitment to Safeguarding
Trócaire is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from Exploitation and Abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives. Any candidate offered a job with Trócaire will be expected to sign Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct soon after joining Trócaire as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit their curriculum vitae, with their names and contact details of three referees, together with a cover letter explaining why they are interested in the post highlighting the particular personal attributes which make them ideally suited for the role. Salary will be depending on qualifications and experience.
Applications should be sent by email to claire.uwineza@trocaire.org  with a copy to emmanuel.karulinda@trocaire.org  or delivered to the same BHC Building, 260 Bvd de l’Umuganda, Kacyiru, Kigali, Rwanda. Responses will only be provided to shortlisted candidates. If you do not hear from Trócaire by end of July 2018, consider your application unsuccessful.
Closing date for applications: Friday 7 June 2018.
Country Director
Trócaire - Rwanda Office