As Social Protection Manager, you will be responsible for the management and development of SC UK's social protection work in Rwanda. This includes taking a strategic position on the development and management of social protection programmes, effective management of both financial and human resources and representing SCUK in Rwanda to the government, partner agencies and other outside bodies including the media, and the public.

In the summer of 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million people were killed over a three-month period, when Rwanda's Hutu government set out to eliminate the country's ethnic Tutsi minority. Most were killed with guns and machetes. But for many Tutsi women - accused by the Hutus of being too prideful - the Hutus used AIDS as part of their arsenal, raping them to infect them. A handful of programs are assisting women who were raped and infected with AIDS, but thousands more go without help.

Rwanda is beginning the process of setting up a nationwide system of community courts to try more than 100,000 suspects in the genocide war of the mid-1990s in which up to a million people are believed to have died.

Foreign donors and aid agencies are to assist the Rwandan government to prepare for democratic elections due in July 2003, the United Nations reported last Friday. The UN Development Programme, British, Swedish and other aid agencies are to help Rwanda's electoral commission to draw up a plan for the July 2003 elections, train electoral monitors, provide ballot boxes and computerise voter rolls.

We seek a passionate and committed person to serve as Programme Representative. As Programme Representative, you will be responsible for representation, meeting quality programme standards by providing strategic and operational management, programme and employee development, security and management of the team, handling the budget and ensuring that capacity work, humanitarian and advocacy programmes are properly operational.