Project Manager at Association Mwana Ukundwa: (Deadline 26 February 2024)

Project Manager at Association Mwana Ukundwa: (Deadline 26 February 2024)

Vacancy title:
Project Manager

Jobs at: ASSOCIATION MWANA UKUNDWA (AMU)

Project title:

Enhancing food and nutrition security in the southern province of Rwanda

It is funded by European Union under its project entitled: Boosting food production in Rwanda “KUNGAHARA”

Duty Station:
To be based at AMU Headquarters situated in Kicukiro district

Job details:
Association Mwana Ukundwa (AMU) wishes to recruit a full-time Project Manager

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical, budget management, monitoring, and reporting cluster’s activities through most of the project cycle (start-up, implementation, and close-out) in line with AMU’s program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, GoR’s policies, and strategy, and good practices.
• Manage/coordinate project-related staff well-being.
• Provide coaching and capacity building to project staff, ToTs and community facilitators.
• Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities.
• Represent the organization with different working groups, relevant partners and relevant local government and community actors for project areas.
• Coordinate activities required for ensuring the financial, material, and human resources for the quality implementation of the project.
• Conduct periodic budget reviews and follow-up with project staff on timely submission of financial reports to facilitate proper tracking of resource use.
• Identify staff capacity needs and technical assistance needs of project staff and contribute to capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality project implementation.
• Assist with preparation of trend analysis reports and disseminate results.
• Review project documentation to ensure the project file is complete with all required documentation and is filed per AMU and donor requirements.
• Coordinate and compile project deliverables coming from partners and AMU staff at the project level to ensure the submission of timely and high-quality reports and plans.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management or a related field
• Master’s degree in project management is an added advantage
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in project management, ideally in the field of agriculture, food production and for an NGO.
• Ability to write and contribute to written reports
• Having coordinated restricted funded-projects (Government grants, EU or USAID Grants)
• Staff supervision experience.
• Ability to contribute to the development of technical proposals
• Experience in analyzing data and contributing to evaluation reports
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Capacity to work under pressure

Required Languages

• Oral and written fluency in English and Kinyarwanda.
• French is a plus.
• Must be willing and able to travel to the field any time.

Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply!

Application Documents:

• Expression of interest letter
• Updated CV (maximum 2 pages) with contact details
• 3 references
• Copies of educational qualifications
• Church recommendation
• Criminal Background Record
• Copy of National Identity card
• Copy of Driving license

Qualified and interested candidates should submit their application documents written in English addressed to AMU – Executive Director  exclusively to: [email protected]  by February  26, 2024  not later than 5:00pm Kigali time.

N.B. Only selected candidates will be contacted for tests.

The recruitment process includes specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

Done Kigali 19^th February 2024

Dr Byiringiro Samue

AMU- Executive Director