Youth Education Specialist (Technical Advisor I) at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

CRS 

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, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. 

Job Summary:  

You will provide technical advice and support on a range of program design and implementation issues as part of the Secondary Education project in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices 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 Rwanda’s Secondary Education programming is.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results. 

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Supervisory Responsibilities - None

Key Working Relationships:  

Internal – Project Manager, Head of Programming, CRS Technical Advisors

• Support the development and contribute to the implementation of strategies, standards, tools and best practices in the Youth Secondary Education project that also respect donor and Government of Rwanda norms and standards. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and climate change adaptation.
• Provide technical solutions to the project team for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to project implementation strategies, bringing in national and global innovations and practices for CRS as well as other project partners as appropriate.
• Lead capacity strengthening initiatives in the Youth Secondary Education project for staff and partners 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 to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the Youth Secondary Education Project learning agenda.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in the area of Secondary Education to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.

Interested and qualified candidates should complete the attached application form, Self -Declaration Clause and submit them together with one page Cover letter plus updated CV (maximum three pages) all in/as one PDF document - via email only to: RW_HR@crs.org