POSITION TITLE:
Livelihoods Specialist, Child Labor Elimination Program
LOCATION: Rwanda
DEPARTMENT:
Empowerment & Civic Engagement
REPORTS TO: Project
Director, Child Labor Elimination Program
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Livelihoods
Specialist will be responsible for providing leadership in developing the
technical aspects of the program related to sustainable livelihood
interventions, including household economic strengthening, identifying rural
and micro-finance or other savings and loans programs as part of an integrated
livelihoods program to reduce the incidence of child labor and enhance
livelihoods programs in the Rwandan tea production sector. The position is
contingent upon receipt of donor funding.
ESSENTIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide
strategic leadership of all programmatic activities concerned with
livelihoods, income generation, and rural financing. - In
coordination with a team, develop and oversee implementation of livelihood
work plans/targets, budgets, and reports. - Coordinate
strategy and activities with any implementing partners, national &
local government authorities involved in and responsible for economic
development. - Manage
and mentor senior staff in rural finance and livelihoods. - Coordinate
closely on data collection to measure impacts, incomes, household and
business investments, and savings. - Serve
as technical lead in at least four of the following areas and supervise
staff and/or consultants in the remaining areas: agricultural value-chain
development, public-private partnership, enterprise development and
incubation, child labor prevention; workforce development for legally aged
working children; vocational education/training, microfinance access,
nutrition, youth and women’s empowerment, or land tenure/property rights.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND BACKGROUND:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree
required (MBA or master’s degree preferred) in economics,
agriculture/horticulture, environmental sciences or gender in development. Supplemental
training in income generation/entrepreneurship, monitoring and evaluation,
HIV/AIDS, gender analysis/mainstreaming, microfinance preferred.
Work Experience:
- Minimum
three years experience working in projects promoting livelihoods
interventions in areas including skills training, micro-lending,
micro-savings, employment generation, alternative/additional income
generation, youth employment, and social protection for donor-funded
development programs required. - Experience
working successfully with government ministries engaged in promoting
improved livelihoods for households and the provision of social protection
services, as well as experience working with employers’ organizations,
trade unions, or comparable entities. - Experience
managing and monitoring integrated US Government programs and budgets
strongly preferred. - Demonstrated
technical expertise in four of the following areas: agricultural
value-chain development, public-private partnerships, enterprise
development and incubation, vocational education/training, microfinance
access, nutrition, youth and women’s empowerment, land tenure/property
rights, and child labor prevention. - Basic
knowledge of child labor issues in the in the Rwandan tea production
sector. - Private
sector experience preferred.
Skills:
- Strong
skills in financial management, writing, monitoring and evaluation
required. - Excellent
written and oral communication skills in English required. Proficiency in
Kirwanda and French preferred.
How to apply:
Applicants should go
to the ‘Jobs’ link at www.winrock.org
and submit a current resume and cover letter referencing Rwanda CL Livelihoods
Specialist by April 22, 2013. Qualified Rwandan nationals, and other
nationalities, especially those residing in Rwanda are strongly encouraged to
apply.
