Job Title: Savings for
Life Regional Technical Advisor
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: TBD, Rwanda
Job Description:
Job
Title:
Savings for Life Regional Technical Advisor
Job Title of Supervisor: Savings for
Life Senior Technical Advisor
Effective
Date:
October 1, 2013
Work
Location:
TBD (will be based from one of the capital offices of World Relief’s Africa
Country offices)
Length of
Contract:
At will
General
Function:
The Regional Savings for Life Technical Advisor (RTA) will
provide support to World Relief’s global Savings for Life program. Key
responsibilities will be to support the development of proposals and reports
and to provide monitoring and evaluation visits to implementing countries with
the purpose to build capacity of program teams to implement savings programs’
best practices. The RTA will work under the guidance and supervision of
the Savings for Life Senior Technical Advisor, based in Kigali, Rwanda and will
have frequent travel to Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Malawi, and South Sudan.
Specific Job
Duties:
· Provide
technical assistance to all country and program management staff implementing
Savings for Life (SFL).
· Participate
in strategic development of the SFL program through proposal research,
development and editing, in collaboration with country-level staff and WR
technical and marketing teams.
· Contribute
towards aligning the SFL program with World Relief’s Integral Mission
initiative including the strategic design of church partnership and the
branding of SFL curriculum.
· Research
innovations, developments and impact studies within global savings programs and
make recommendations for the SFL program.
· Contribute
towards monitoring and evaluation efforts to keep the SFL programs adhering to
best practices.
· Deliver
capacity building for local field staff in project management, report writing,
and strategic thinking.
· Prepare
and submit ongoing reports on program performance.
· Represent
World Relief at regional industry events, trainings, and among donor agencies.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
· Bachelor’s
degree in business, economics, international development or related field;
Masters preferred.
· Fluency
in English with strong oral and written communication skills.
· Proven
outstanding report and proposal writing abilities, assessment, analytical and
planning skills.
· Competent
in the use of Microsoft Office.
· Initiative,
high sense of responsibility and ability to plan, train, and organize, while
working within difficult cultural and physical environments.
· Ability
to work with minimum supervision and to deal with problems and issues promptly,
efficiently and with professionalism.
· Flexible
and motivated team player.
· Passionate
commitment to Jesus Christ and to the mission of World Relief.
Experience Required:
· At
least 3 years professional international development experience, having been
based in the global South preferred.
· Experience
in community development with microfinance or community based savings programs
experience preferred.
· Significant
experience in proposal and grant writing for varying size of grants and for
varying donors.
· Practical
experience in training, project management, accounting, financial management,
preferred.
Physical
Demands:
Ability to travel up to 60% of work time.
Work Environment:
This position will be based in one of World Relief’s capital
city offices in Africa
For World Relief staff, Christian faith is a prerequisite
for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a
faith-based religious organization. This means that we conduct hiring without
regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, sex,
marital status, parental status, membership in any labor organization, political
ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of
World Relief as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent the organization
from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs, so that all staff share the
same religious commitment.
