Vacancy title:
Project Manager

Jobs at:
ActionAid International Rwanda

Deadline of this Job:
20th April, 2018 @ 5PM

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
ActionAid International Rwanda is seeking a Project Manager to manage the implementation of a new four-year institutional donor funded project in Rwanda focusing on VAWG and SRHR. 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 VAWG and wider community members, men and boys will be engaged to tackle gender inequality and change social norms.

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 the Head of Programmes and Policy and supported by a Project Accountability Team, Programme Quality Coordinator, Women’s Rights Coordinator as well as Local Rights Program Managers, the Project Manager will manage partnerships and design the implementation of activities within the framework of the overall project and in the project areas (four districts of Rwanda, namely Karongi, Nyanza, Gisagara and Nyaruguru). 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 Manager
Reporting to: Head of Programmes and Policy
Location: Kigali, Rwanda with frequent travel to the Project areas of Implementation
Contract Length: 4 years fixed term contract
Start date: Immediately
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 safe spaces in schools for girls and deliver a mentorship and VAWG/SRHR curriculum programme to support girls 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, counsellors 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 women’s rights organisations 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
• Master’s degree in a Social Sciences (Gender Studies, Policy and Governance Studies, Development Studies, Project Management and Law) will be a plus

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified candidates should submit in filled application formshttp://www.actionaid.org/rwanda/jobs/job-application-form-actionaid-rwanda  to Rwanda.jobs@actionaid.org  no later than 20th April, 2018 @ 5PM. Indicate in the subject line: Project Manager – VAWG/SRHR Project.
Application forms can be requested from Rwanda.jobs@actionaid.org , an official recruitment email of ActionAid International 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.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.