Project Manager at World Vision International Rwanda: (Deadline 22 January 2025)

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Activity

Project Management

30

• Lead the design, planning, and execution of CAN-LR project activities in alignment with organizational goals and investors/standards requirements.
• Lead and manage project team, by defining and providing clear goals and objectives of the project.
• Manage project budgets, ensuring cost efficiency and compliance with financial guidelines.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive project implementation plan with clear timelines, deliverables, and performance metrics.
• Ensure compliance with relevant carbon standards (e.g., Gold Standard) and regulatory requirements both in country and internationally.
• Manage adherence to environmental laws and policies related to carbon emissions and sustainability.
• Develop a profound understanding of carbon management principles, standards, and best practices, including carbon accounting methodologies, emissions reduction strategies, and sustainability frameworks

Stakeholder Engagement

20

• Foster partnerships with key stakeholders, including government institutions, private sector entities, investors, and community organizations.
• Represent the project in external forums, conferences, and stakeholder meetings.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination among project stakeholders to promote collaboration and buy-in.
• Develop a project awareness plan and adoption strategies and share to key relevant stakeholders
• Convene regular meetings and provide updates and share progress and outcomes of the projects to the relevant stakeholders.
• Lead the development and implementation of stakeholders’ engagement plan, ensuring participation and buy in of key stakeholders.

Technical Oversight

20

• Guide technical teams in conducting baseline assessments, and monitoring activities, including data collection, quality assurance and quality control.
• Provide support to the development and implementation of standard operating procedures to guide project implementation, safe guarding, monitoring and verification.
• Stay updated on global trends in carbon credits, carbon markets and climate finance to inform project strategies.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

20

• Establish robust monitoring and evaluation systems to track project performance and impacts.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting to donors and other stakeholders.
• Document lessons learned and best practices to improve project implementation and inform future initiatives.
• Support the development of external communication and marketing material in compliance with organizational, carbon standards and investors visibility requirements.
• Provide regular and timely reporting on project progress in line with existing templates and requirements.

Capacity Building

10

• Provide training and technical support to the team members and community stakeholders involved in carbon project activities.
• Strengthen local capacity to sustain project outcomes beyond the project lifecycle.
• Have capacity building plan for the project teams and other project supporting staff

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing projects especially climate or carbon-related projects.
• A strong project management and stakeholder engagement skillset with a keen willingness to learn new skills related to carbon and climate actions.
• Familiarity with community-based approaches to carbon initiatives is an asset.
• Well versed with national carbon market policies and schemes, including evolving government policies and regulations, in the forest, environment, biodiversity and agriculture sector Strong project and people management skills, including planning, budgeting, and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and partnership-building abilities.
• Technical knowledge of the carbon project lifecycle, including carbon accounting, monitoring, and validation/verification is an advantage
• Proficiency in data analysis and GIS tools is an advantage.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong understanding of carbonization and its associated effects would be an added advantage
• Strong understanding of decarbonization processes, methodologies and approaches. Would be an added advantage

Required Education, training, license,

registration, and

certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management,
• Master’s degree  is preferred for the above related field.
• Carbon project certification or training in standards like VCS, Gold Standard, or CDM is an advantage.