Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, nutrition, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
Catholic Relief Services has been present in Rwanda since 1960, and currently implements projects in nutrition, WASH, agriculture, youth entrepreneurship and peacebuilding. The Country Program has over 40 staff and implements its projects through local and international partners, with strong coordination/collaboration with the Government of Rwanda structures .

Job Summary:
The Inclusive Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (INECD) activity will promote nurturing and responsive care practices, especially in the areas of health, functioning, nutrition, and early childhood development (ECD) for caregivers and children. Specifically, the activity aims to improve health and nutrition outcomes among women of reproductive age and adolescents and improve infant and young child feeding practices. It also aims to address child development gaps and significant unmet physical rehabilitation and assistive technology (rehab/AT) and social inclusion needs for infants and children. The activity will focus on community-level service delivery, community-health facility linkages and district level capacity development, as well as address issues of inclusion and participation, including access to programs and services for children and adults with disabilities, in line with Government of Rwanda priorities. You will provide technical advice and support to the INECD project for a range of program design and implementation issues in inclusive Nutrition, ECD for children 0-3 as well as 4-6, adolescents in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your advice, knowledge, and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ inclusive Health, Nutrition, and ECD programming is.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Support the development/adaptation and contribute to the implementation of project strategies, standards, tools and best practices in inclusive nutrition and health programming that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating SBC, gender and protection mainstreaming.
• Monitor the technical quality of program implementation in the field. Provide technical solutions to region & cluster and district-based teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in inclusive Nutrition and Health programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for the projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the inclusive nutrition, ECD and Health learning agenda.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in the areas of inclusive nutrition, ECD and Health to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
• Review nutrition activities reports from sub-recipients and provide timely feedback, compile sub-recipient reports and contribute to all reports to the donor, ensuring proper and complete documentation and description of nutrition activities and achievements.
• Work with finance team and DCOP to monitor the budget for nutrition component activities.

Basic Qualifications
• Master's Degree in Nutrition, public health or related field required.
• Minimum of seven years relevant work experience in nutrition programming in Rwanda, with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO.
• Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in inclusive nutrition. General knowledge of other related disciplines (ECD, Health etc) to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach. Demonstrated commitment to gender-responsive programming.
• Strong Knowledge and previous experience in capacity strengthening best practices.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Electronic applications-Only a motivation letter and a current detailed CV should be addressed to the CRS Country Representative exclusively at RW_HR@crs.org  not later than Monday, Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 5:00pm

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