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• Conduct a situational analysis on all RWANU
  activities/ interventions with a view to prioritizing labor interventions
  with the greatest potential to influence short, medium and long-term
  poverty reduction outcomes.
• Plan and implement a dedicated quantitative
  labor market survey to quantify labor demand and supply to better shape
  ACDI/ VOCA’s understanding of the importance of wage incomes as part of
  different households’ livelihood portfolios.
• Plan and implement trainings for Field
  Extension Workers (FEWs) and other RWANU staff on labor-related issues and
  support the mainstreaming of a labor perspective in all RWANU activities.
• The incumbent will develop/formulate
  performance indicators for all labor market support activities by RWANU
  for measuring impact and supporting learning on the project as well as
  agency-wide learning across ACDI/VOCA and USAID, and support AV/USAID
  monitoring team in incorporating these indicators into RWANU’s M&E
  framework.
• Re-analyze the RWANU database of
  beneficiaries on labor market participation and identify critically
  labor-dependent households as well as non-RWANU community members for
  possible enrolment as primary beneficiaries of RWANU’s labor
  interventions.
• Keenly analyze and re-categorize all RWANU
  beneficiaries to determine existing and potential employers with a view to
  formulating a support system that can potentially increase employment
  opportunities in the project areas.
• If feasible, re-arrange existing RWANU groups
  of beneficiaries in order to better reflect and control the impact of
  socio-economic differentiation among RWANU beneficiaries.
• Support Mother Care Groups (MCGs) to devise
  ways through which mothers can participate in labor markets without
  negatively affecting their child care role.
• Design and lead the implementation of a
  program for raising awareness and reducing child labor within RWANU areas
  through awareness-raising, trainings of FEWs, MCGs and employers, and
  incorporation of a ‘zero-child-labor’ component in the pilot reward scheme
• The incumbent will formulate and implement an
  appropriate ‘rewards/incentivizing’ pilot scheme for inducing good
  employment practices and rises in agricultural wage work, particularly in
  key sub counties such as Namalu.
• Identify and promote strategic partnerships
  for promoting coordinated hiring of workers with emphasis on the most
  vulnerable individual; such partnerships could be with local development
  actors such as NGOs, district authorities and research institutions.
• Design and lead the implementation of
  appropriate concept(s) for facilitating labor mobility across selected sub
  counties/districts so as to balance labor demand and supply especially for
  those critically in need.

• The ideal candidate for the USAID RWANU
  Project Labour Market Systems Advisor career placement should hold a
  Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, or related subject matter.
• A minimum of three to five years’ experience in
  analyzing, designing and/or managing implementation of labor market
  development activities.
• Analytical systems thinker familiar with
  rural labor markets.
• Computer literacy i.e. proficient in word
  processing and data analysis software abilities.
• Excellent oral communication skills

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