CARE INTERNATIONAL IN RWANDA

CAREER CENTER BUILDING

KG 541 ST

JOB ADVERTISEMENT:

CARE International is seeking to recruit a “Quality Assurance Specialist”.

Introduction

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE International aims to be a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty.

Are you passionate about gender equality, data-driven impact, and using evidence to create real change?

Do you want your work to directly contribute to a future where women and girls are safe, economically empowered, and heard?

If yes, this is your opportunity.

CARE is looking for a dedicated Quality Assurance Specialist for its Powered by Women (PBW) project to ensure strong monitoring, learning, accountability, and research across this transformative programme. This role is critical in ensuring that interventions are evidence-driven, inclusive, and aligned with both donor and organizational standards.

About the Project

Powered by Women is an initiative aiming to advance gender equality for 160,000 women and girls. The program strengthens the ability of women, girls, and civil society actors to address key barriers to women’s economic justice, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention.

Overview of the Role

The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for supporting the design and overseeing implementation of effective systems for monitoring, impact measurement, knowledge management and internal accountability for POWERED BY WOMEN project, a project which aims to strengthen women and girls’ and civil society actors ability to address critical barriers to women’s economic justice, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and Gender-Based Violence prevention. Additionally, the position holder will liaise with the ICT Specialist and the Impact Management Team Leader to support the development of effective, efficient, user-friendly management data collection tools. The position is also responsible for implementing project research and contributing to program development through the effective utilization of research results and learning. The position has a critical role in supporting the Project Manager to review M&E findings and take any necessary action to ensure that desired results are achieved; including compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), CARE & Donor policies, and the results that have been articulated in the project’s log frame. The position will as well have responsibilities to build capacity of implementing partner organizations M&E staff.

Requirements for the Role

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Statistics, Rural Development)

Experience:

• At least 5 years quality experience in design and execution of project M&E frameworks, including baseline studies and project/program impact evaluations
• Some exposure to working in an international organization preferred
• Prior experience in women empowerment programming preferred
• Familiarity with EU and USAID MEAL systems is an added advantage
• Experience of working with management information systems (MIS) and the design of data collection tools, including digital tools
• Experience of building capacity of non-experts to implement effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

Technical skills:

• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of program design, adaptive management, monitoring, evaluation and reflective learning
• Skills in qualitative and quantitative data collection, data management and analysis, including knowledge of computer software; MS Office applications and other information systems (e.g., MS Word, Excel, Power Point, statistical packages, infographics, etc.)
• Ability to design both electronic and manual data collection tools and systems that are user friendly and effective
• Good relationship building skills; including the ability to coach and support non-experts
• Good writing and communication skills in English; fluency in spoken Kinyarwanda and French
• Good facilitation skills
• Basic understanding of the main conceptual frameworks underpinning gender analysis, youth engagement, women’s empowerment, rights-based programming and the underlying causes of poverty

• Supporting the design and overseeing implementation of effective systems for monitoring, impact measurement, knowledge management and internal accountability for POWERED BY WOMEN project.
• Liaising with the ICT Specialist and the Impact Management Team Leader to support the development of effective, efficient, user-friendly management data collection tools.
• Implementing project research and contributing to program development through the effective utilization of research results and learning.
• Supporting the Project Manager to review M&E findings and take any necessary action to ensure that desired results are achieved; including compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), CARE & Donor policies, and the results that have been articulated in the project’s log frame.
• Building capacity of implementing partner organizations M&E staff.

• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of program design, adaptive management, monitoring, evaluation and reflective learning
• Skills in qualitative and quantitative data collection, data management and analysis, including knowledge of computer software; MS Office applications and other information systems (e.g., MS Word, Excel, Power Point, statistical packages, infographics, etc.)
• Ability to design both electronic and manual data collection tools and systems that are user friendly and effective
• Good relationship building skills; including the ability to coach and support non-experts
• Good writing and communication skills in English; fluency in spoken Kinyarwanda and French
• Good facilitation skills
• Basic understanding of the main conceptual frameworks underpinning gender analysis, youth engagement, women’s empowerment, rights-based programming and the underlying causes of poverty

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Statistics, Rural Development)
• At least 5 years quality experience in design and execution of project M&E frameworks, including baseline studies and project/program impact evaluations
• Some exposure to working in an international organization preferred
• Prior experience in women empowerment programming preferred
• Familiarity with EU and USAID MEAL systems is an added advantage
• Experience of working with management information systems (MIS) and the design of data collection tools, including digital tools
• Experience of building capacity of non-experts to implement effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)