Vacancy: Project Coordinator
ActionAid International Rwanda is seeking a Project Coordinator to manage the implementation of a new Two-year institutional donor funded project in Rwanda focusing on “Empowering young people to prevent and fight SGBV in Rwanda”. ActionAid Rwanda is a non-profit making International Non-Governmental Organisation working for the development of communities in Rwanda to eradicate poverty, inequality, and injustice. The project will work with girls and women’s rights organizations to increase girls’ ability to demand their rights, take control over their bodies, and hold decision makers to account by increasing their confidence and knowledge of their rights.
The project will address the root causes of strengthening the capacity of CSOs in Rwanda to promote and protect the sexual and reproductive rights of teenage girls and vulnerable young people, with a focus on increasing knowledge, access to appropriate health services, and combatting sexual and gender-based violence.
The successful candidate will be directly responsible for the efficient and effective day-to-day implementation of the project, ensuring that it is delivered to plan and achieves its outcomes. She/he will lead on planning, coordinating, overseeing, and monitoring the implementation of all activities related to the project and for providing effective financial, logistical, procurement, human resources, management, and security support. Reporting to Programme, Policy, and Business Development Lead and supported by a Project Accountability Team, Programme Quality Coordinator, Women’s Rights Coordinator as well as Local Rights Program Coordinators, the Project Coordinator will manage partnerships and design the implementation of activities within the framework of the overall project and in the project areas (2 districts of Rwanda, namely Karongi and Gasabo). She/he will engage in meetings with the implementing partner organisations, non-governmental organizations, government ministries, girls’ clubs, and women’s rights organisations to address violence faced by women and girls in Rwanda and to advocate for solutions that better support marginalised women and girls. He/she will work with partners through supporting them in the design and planning activities with communities and duty bearers, and will facilitate the project cycle management processes, ensuring overall compliance and delivering on donor reporting and monitoring and evaluation requirements.
Position Title: Project Coordinator
Reporting to: Programme, Policy, and Business Development Lead
Location: Kigali, Rwanda with frequent travel to the Project areas of Implementation
Contract Length: Two years fixed term contract
Start date: February 2022
Salary: Commensurate to experience
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee the project cycle management processes (planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation), coordinating key project staff (finance, programmes, M&E) at partner, organisation, and external levels
- Coordinate with implementing partner staff, project rights-holders, and key stakeholders to ensure high-quality project implementation which is accountable to women and girls
- Lead on organising school clubs and work with project implementing partners to establish clubs in schools and out of school youth groups and deliver a mentorship and VAWG/SRHR curriculum programme to support girls and youth to claim their rights
- Coordinate a community engagement programme, identifying key duty-bearers, men and boys to participate and organising sensitization and communications materials on women’s rights
- Strengthen women’s rights organizations institutionally and provide training on access to justice and referral pathways to support survivors of violence
- Work with implementing partners, and relevant authorities to improve the coordination and quality of the support provided to survivors of VAWG
- Support with training in evidence-based advocacy, participatory evaluation tools, disability programming, and in ActionAid methodologies including the Human Right’s Based Approach
- Engage in advocacy processes and policy events informed by the project’s analysis of gaps in VAWG and SRHR policy
- Engage in campaigns and public events organised by partners in order to advance SRHR (centred around key cause days such as International Women’s Day, 16 Days of Activism, International Girls’ Day, International Women’s Day, and Day of African Child, etc.)
Experience
- Minimum of five years previous work-related experience with at least three years experience managing related projects/programs
- Minimum three years of progressive experience on women’s rights, VAWG, and SRHR projects/programmes
- Previous experience of developing, planning, managing, and reporting on institutional donor-funded projects
- Previous experience working with survivors of VAWG and knowledge of best practice in case management, referral pathways, and routes for access to justice for women and girls
- Experience in advocacy work
- Knowledge of policy issues related to VAWG and SRHR in Rwanda
Skills/Abilities
- Excellent skills in written and spoken English, as well as spoken Kinyarwanda
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with a variety of partners (community members, partner NGOs, government and donor agencies, etc.)
- Must possess strong writing and analytical skills
- Must be an effective leader, with management experience and strong interpersonal skills
- Must possess skills in participatory development
Personal Qualities
- Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment
- Self-motivated person able to work without close supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills and adaptability
- Effectively demonstrate and promote the mission, values, and objectives of ActionAid International Rwanda and of the Donor
- Proven leadership skills
Education
- A Bachelor’s degree level Social Sciences(Gender Studies, Policy and Governance Studies, Development Studies, Project Management, and Law) with 3 years experience.
- Master’s degree in a Social Sciences (Gender Studies, Policy and Governance Studies, Development Studies, Project Management, and Law) will be a plus
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit in filled application forms Application Form for EU Project Coordinator to Rwanda.jobs@actionaid.org no later than Friday 07th January 2022 @ 5 PM. Indicate in the subject line: Project Coordinator – . “Empowering young people to prevent and fight SGBV in Rwanda”.
Application forms can be requested from Rwanda.Jobs@actionaid.org, an official recruitment email of ActionAid Rwanda. NB: Applications which are not in the required application forms will not be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
ActionAid is an equal opportunity employer and candidates will be expected to embody ActionAid’s values and adhere to organization policies including the Child Protection Policy.
The assignment is effective 01st February 2022.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
