Vacancy title:
Resilience & Livelihood Specialist

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Agribusiness]

Jobs at:
World Vision International (Rwanda)

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, August 4 2025

Duty Station:
Rwanda | Kigali | Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

% of time

Activity

The resilience and Livelihood Specialist will be responsible for Coordinating, planning, implementing, and monitoring the projects activities in the refugee camps and host communities, through a strong collaboration with camps and host communities’ partners who are involved in livelihood and Resilience activities for broader and deeper impact on the wellbeing of most vulnerable children in covered areas.

30%

Program Implementation

• Responsible for Resilience & Livelihoods project planning and implementation in the Dukore Twigire Project (DTP) by preparing project designs in line with the    Livelihood Technical Program and National Office Strategy
• Liaise with the Resilience & Livelihoods TP Manager for quality implementation of Food Security and Livelihood projects
• Mobilization of key partners and conducting training to build capacities on Resilience & Livelihoods core project models and approaches
• Identify and build strategic linkages, relations, collaborations, and networks with partners and other stakeholders in implementation at the project level

30%

Financial Management

• Participate in the Dukore Twigire Project (DTP) budgeting activities to ensure the available resources are utilized to respond to the needs of refugees and host communities.
• Spending according to the plan and budget such that the monthly cashflow is not significantly over or under-spent
• Providing variance explanations and taking action on time to ensure that budgets are being used as planned  

20%

DME

• Provide technical leadership for quality assessments and development of Area Programme Detailed Implementation Plans
• Support the DME team in the development of the Resilience & Livelihoods programs monitoring system, development and/or adaptation of tools, and adoption of the tools
• Ensure effective documentation of all the information related to Resilience & Livelihoods program successes, innovations, and promising practices and disseminate through appropriate mechanisms.
• Contribute to the writing of child well-being outcome monitoring reports
• Produce timely, accurate, compliant, and quality reports for Donor, WV and mandatory government reports

20%

Resource mobilization and Networking

• Contribute to the production and review of concept papers and proposals for funding agencies
• Establish and maintain partnerships with key Resilience and Livelihood-related departments at the project level
• Ensure effective management of implementing partners in the livelihood program at Dukore Twigire Project (DTP)

KNOWLEDGE /QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• At least 3 years of experience working with economic development sectors, especially in a humanitarian context.
• Demonstrate ability to foster partnerships with refugee camps, community and/or Government agencies and groups
• Must be familiar with economic development models e.g. Ultra-Poor Graduation (UPG), Saving Groups, Local Value
• Chain Development (LVCD), Business Facilitation (BF), Microfinance, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture (NSA), Farmer
• Managed Natural Resources (FMNR), Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), , and CBDRM. Ability to construct, interpret, and critique budgets and track expenditure; strong financial/budgeting skills. Strong group facilitation and training skills Demonstrated successful experience collaborating across programs and strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to productively interact with a wide range and levels of organizations (government, private sector, other development project teams, NGOs, etc.) Excellent communication, presentation and report writing skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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