Field Officer in TVET and Workplace Learning (WPL)

Category:  National

Location:  Kigali, Rwanda

Reference:  21786

Final date for application:  17th March 2024

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Background

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also works for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad, Enabel offers solutions to address pressing global challenges - Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality - and to promote Global Citizenship. With 2,100 staff, Enabel manages about 200 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

Its staff members in Brussels and overseas embody the commitment of the Belgian State and other development partners to international solidarity.

Enabel is preparing the implementation recently signed a five-year bilateral cooperation program (2024 - 2029), with a total budget of 95 million euros, in three priority development sectors in Rwanda: health, agriculture, urbanization and support in public financial management.

Support to the agriculture sector in Rwanda is one of the priority interventions in a 5-year portfolio (2024-2029) funded by Belgian government through Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency.  Under the program, the specific objective for the agriculture intervention is: “access to and the consumption of quality food for the growing urban population is strengthened, through developing sustainable, resilient and inclusive agricultural value chains within an enabling environment for food system transformation.” Result 3 of the intervention focuses on skills and competence development in line with job opportunities in the targeted value chains i.e. Pig and poultry, Beekeeping, Rabbit farming and Aquaculture.

In support of the implementation of the Agriculture Intervention, Enabel is looking for a (f/m) Field Officer in TVET and Workplace Learning (WPL).

Location: Kigali, Rwanda.

Duration of the contract: Open ended – local contract according to the Rwandan labor law

Expected starting date: July 2024

Salary package according to our salary grids (class 4 – Field Officer): From 1.141.599RWF monthly gross salary depending on the number of years of relevant experience.

Function:

The TVET /WPL Field Officer will work under the direct supervision and support of the TVET and Workplace Learning Expert and will work closely with RTB staff concerned with activities related to Dual Training, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Skills upgrading. The Field Officer will be based at Rwanda TVET Board (RTB) office and partly at Rubirizi, Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) station but with routine visits to the field.  
Responsibilities:

Job description

In general, (s)he will:

• Support the implementation of dual training in supported schools and companies to ensure harmonization and collaboration among partners
• Facilitate supported TVET schools and potential private sector employers in the design, implementation and assessment of the training.
• Ensure that activities implemented at school and company levels are aligned to rules and regulations in force
• Monitor and report on whether supported training schools are effectively accomplishing action plans and towards the program targets.
• Identify skills needs at school and the job-market levels and propose a capacity building plan for the concerned
• Assess evolving labor market skills gaps to be addressed by implementing dual learning
• Maintain program documents and keep records of all activities being implemented
• Facilitate communication between schools and RTB to ensure alignment and effective implementation of activities
• Assist schools in updating the trainees certification system and in the organization of graduation ceremonies.
• Facilitate schools in the compilation of quarterly, semestrial and annual progress reports as required.
• Assist in generating stories required from the field to facilitate the process of capitalization
• Support schools in liaising with relevant partners for the placement of trainees in workplaces and monitor the in-company training of placed trainees
• Document and share best practices and lessons learnt across the program implementation.
• Perform any other task/responsibility as assigned by the supervisor
  

Your profile

Required qualifications and experience:

• Rwandan Citizen
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in education, or any other related field
• At least 2 years’ working experience in TVET, proving deep knowledge of the TVET system
• Working experience in any Agriculture value chain would be an asset
• Holding Rwanda TVET Trainer Institute (RTTI) certificate of Competence-Based Training and Assessment (CBT/A) would be an asset

Required skills and knowledge:

• Fluent in spoken and written English and Kinyarwanda, knowledge of French will be an asset.
• Knowledge of the TVET system and workplace learning (WPL)
• Ability to monitor and report on activities;
• Proven coaching and communication skills;
• Ability to design and facilitate training workshops;
• Strong interpersonal skills with high level of integrity;
• Good team player and keen learner;
• Good knowledge of ICT (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook);
• Ready to work on field;
• Display of time management skills
• Results-oriented management;
• Proactive, engaged and a self-starter.
• High level of rigor and integrity
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Able to fit in a collaborative governance mindset (Self responsible, accountable, authentic communication …)

Following this recruitment procedure, a shortlist of successful applicants may be constituted which may be sourced in the next three years for similar job openings.

Interested?

Applicants fulfilling the above-mentioned criteria are invited to submit their application documents through Enabel job site by clicking the "Apply now" button including detailed Curriculum Vitae (max 5 pages), a motivation letter and a copy of University degree(s). Submit the full file not later than 17th March 2024. Only applications sent through the indicated channel will be considered.

Enabel never requests money to be part of any of the recruitment process.

Enabel is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or any other factor other than competence.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.

Done at Kigali, March 01st , 2024

Resident Representative, Enabel Rwanda

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