This position is a
Global Health Corps (GHC) fellowship role. GHC is a leadership development
organization focused on building the next generation of diverse, disruptive
global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively recruit talented
professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and backgrounds and place
them in high-impact roles within partner organizations working on the front
lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US, and Zambia.
The Curriculum
Development Officer (CDO) will work with the whole Spark MicroGrants
Rwanda team to build out materials and
tools critical for Spark’s program of
training community based facilitators. The CDO’s work will involve documenting
processes and practices that are critical for success for Spark’s local
government training partners, including supporting colleagues to build out case
studies and relevant tools and materials, including a range of audio-visual
tools and apps. These tools, materials, and curricula will be crucial to
improving Spark’s program and scalability, especially how Spark targets rural
family nutrition, food security, and livelihoods across three districts in
Rwanda.
Based in Musanze,
the CDO will help build context specific tools using the results of learning
projects. In this regard, the officer will design discussions to gather input,
feedback, and recommendations from the team, local government officials, and
communities. The CDO must be detail oriented and possess the ability to plan
and manage multiple projects. Spark is scaling rapidly and the officer will be
in a unique position to provide the necessary tools to improve Spark’s impact
and reach within Rwanda.
About
Since 2010, Spark
MicroGrants has worked in Rwanda to lead excluded communities through a village
strengthening process that combines facilitation, capacity building, and a
village grant to increase cohesion and civic engagement. Spark enables
community members – women and men, young and old – to collectively define their
goals for the future and to make progress on those goals through community
driven initiatives, allowing citizens to determine their own positive future.
Spark partners with villages that have been identified by our district partners
as scoring poorly on social protection indicators, including having high
proportions of households in an economic risk category 1 and 2, low levels of
health insurance payment, and high levels of malnutrition or food insecurity.
Through facilitated
weekly meetings, Spark provides capacity building including financial literacy,
project management, and budgeting. Within six months, villages develop a
project plan aligned with their priority areas and Spark provides a seed grant
of $8,000 to launch the community’s social impact project and an additional two
and half years of support. The Spark approach has been designed to ensure that
communities are well-equipped to independently work towards their goals after
they graduate from the Spark process.
In many of Spark’s
village partners, the primary concern is often related to food security and
reducing malnutrition; around half of Spark village partners choose agriculture
or animal rearing projects to address these challenges. All village partners
use their increased incomes to purchase livestock or land for kitchen gardens.
Using their communal savings, many villages meet and decide to pay for the
Mutuelle de Santé (health insurance) of community members who cannot afford to
pay for themselves.
Responsibilities
- Track
and document iterations on the training curriculum - Facilitate
learning projects to strengthen the Spark training curriculum - Document
processes and practices that are critical for success for training partners - Support
team members to document best practices and challenges case studies - Develop
audio and visual training tools - Produce
country specific materials and updates for in-country partners on program
progress
Skills and
Experience
Items indicated with
an asterisk (*) are required
- Bachelor’s
degree* - Preferred:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a social sciences or public health
discipline - Experience
in teaching, education or writing training and/or curricula* - Audio/video
production skills* - Strong
communication skills, including verbal, written, and facilitation* - Working
proficiency in French - Graphic
design skills - Interest
and prior experience in community driven development - Ability
to work with minimal supervision (as direct line manager will be in a
different country) - Strong
attention to detail
to apply:
https://ghcorps.org/curriculum-development-officer-r10-int/
