Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, November 09 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview of the Role
Job Purpose Statement
• The Program Quality and Learning (PQL) Director provides strategic leadership to enhance program quality and to ensure that CARE Rwanda’s programs achieve the desired beneficial impact in the lives of vulnerable women and girls. S/he manages the program quality and learning unit team which is focused on resource mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation, accountability and learning of programs and projects, external communications.
• Under his/her strong technical leadership, the KL&O unit is responsible for building the capacity of country office and partner staffs to ensure that programs are implemented in alignment with CARE’s standards for quality and accountability, along with delivering measurable results towards CARE’s mission of reducing poverty and social injustice. This means ensuring that systems, policies, procedures, and people are in place to ensure quality implementation of those projects and programs. S/he also plays a strong resource mobilization and technical leadership role in ensuring that the country office has a robust and diverse donor funding base.
• The role will focus on enhancing CARE Rwanda’s impact through innovative approaches, evaluating results and packaging evidence that promotes positioning of the CO, the replication and scale-up of effective program approaches/models, providing thought leadership and innovating thinking in the search for programming strategies that result in lasting changes.
• In addition, the PQL Director is responsible for monitoring risk mitigation, accountability, and compliance with SOPs, supporting the program Implementation to take any corrective actions required to ensure achievement of goals.

Requirements for the Role
Educational Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Development Management or Social Science or Development Studies
• Post-graduate qualifications in a relevant field of work

Experience required:
• 5-8 years in senior management position in development field
• Demonstrated experience in leading strategic and operational planning
• Demonstrated experience in setting up KML systems
• Experience developing/building, leading and managing a multi-disciplinary team

Technical skills
• Strategic and operational Management
• Familiarity with the main conceptual frameworks underpinning gender analysis, women’s empowerment, rights-based programming and the underlying causes of poverty.
• Extensive conceptual skills including strategic and technical analysis
• Proven ability to lead and deliver innovation – comfort with novel ideas, approaches, information
• People/Relationship Management
• Demonstrated self-awareness, leadership and interpersonal skills
• Strong human resource management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management;
• Demonstrated interest and ability to give feedback, develop, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results;
• Financial Management
• Knowledge and experience with financial management as demonstrated by ability to:
• Design and manage a budget
• Effectively contribute to CO risk management.
• Ensure donor compliance and reporting
• Information/Knowledge Management
• Demonstrated ability to establish a learning culture within the CO and to facilitate knowledge sharing across CARE
• Strong facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to effectively transfer skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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