The role will take forward the commitments made in Trócaire Rwanda’s new strategic plan (2021-2025) and will lead on strengthening quality assurance of the variety of women’s empowerment methodologies being applied by programme partners by seeking to harmonise them to ensure a clear path to social norms change. A continued focus will be placed on job creation, vocational training, implementation of Masidama social norms methodology, increasing voice and influence, leadership and business development for vulnerable women.
This role reports to the Programmes Manager and will work closely with the Localization and Partnership Unit. The Women’s Empowerment Programme Coordinator will be leading on Trócaire’s strategic goal in Supporting women’s and girl’s protection, voice and leadership; supporting Trócaire and partners in their activity implementation, in ways that prioritise and amplify local voices, especially the voices and leadership of women and WCOs. The role will furthermore be leading on fulfilling monitoring, administrative, budget and project management functions.
Roles and Responsibilities
Supporting women’s and girl’s protection, voice and leadership (Trocaire Goal 3) Programme Coordination
- Responsible for the development of Trócaire Rwanda’s Goal 3 strategic intervention plan and take leadership on the roll out of the detailed technical plans and approaches used, including social norms change approaches such as MASIDAMA, support to Women- Centred Organisations (WCOs), approaches towards structural change such as Community Monitoring Advocacy (CMA), Gender responsive budget monitoring, etc.
- Responsible for the development and coordination of implementation of a consolidated workplan across all partners under the Supporting women’s and girl’s protection, voice and leadership goal area (Goal 3);
- 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.
- 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 ‘Supporting women’s and girl’s protection, voice and leadership’ activities; Review and assess programme progress collectively with partner organizations regularly and ensure programme quality is in line with international, National and internal standards.
- Technical Support & Innovation
• Staying abreast of the latest developments, good practices and discussions around thematic areas in line with Goal 3 work.
• Lead on the implementation of women’s empowerment integration approach in all of Trócaire Rwanda’s interventions, through provision of high quality and timely inputs in programme design, implementation and monitoring.
- Lead on training, roll out and quality assurance of Trócaire’s social norm change methodology (Masidama)
• Ensure strong learning and knowledge management of Trócaire existing and emerging practices on women’s empowerment is included in integrated programming;
• Identification of opportunities for new innovative practices and future strategies and approaches in consultation with local and international partners and networks in close collaboration with HQ and other field offices.
Programme Administration and Finance
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- 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 3 programme pillar to a high standard;
- Ensure that the monthly checklist for grants to partners and the programme ancillaries are updated; and
- 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;
- 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.
- 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 3 work with technical support and guidance, capacity strengthening and identification of learning and development opportunities.
- Supporting partner capacity strengthening initiatives and actively partaking in partner capacity assessments and support (PCAS).
- Business Development
• Identify funding opportunities and work with BDGM, colleagues across Trócaire Rwanda and Trócaire globally, local partners, and other stakeholders to develop, submit and win high quality institutional funded proposals.
- Stakeholder Representation and Communication
- Build and maintain professional relations with relevant organisations including Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF), National Women’s Council (NWC), Gender Monitoring Office (GMO), development organisations and donors as appropriate;
- Participate in thematic relevant meetings and/or working groups (such as NINGO Thematic Working Groups and Sectoral Working Groups under government institutions and/or ministries where relevant)
- Representing Trócaire 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.