Country Liaison Advisor at VVOB Rwanda: (Deadline 6 June 2025)

Country Liaison Advisor at VVOB Rwanda: (Deadline 6 June 2025)

VVOB is an international non-profit organisation with programmes and projects in 11 countries worldwide.

When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.

Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced that quality education as well guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?

We are looking for a Country Liaison Advisor who will ideally operate from our office in Rwanda or Kenya to the further development of the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL), taking the lead as a key expert being a liaison between the multi-country programme and the respective country

Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!

Responsibilities of the Country Liaison Advisor

As Country Liaison advisor in the African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL), You bring the broader picture of the multi-country programme to the partners in the country and represent the country context towards the multi-country programme.

Reporting to the ACSL Regional Coordinator in Rwanda or Kenya, you will collaborate closely with Global or Country programme staff, as well as with other LIT LEAD Partners at both cross-country and in-country levels.

You will:

• You represent the multi-country programme towards current and future implementation partners in the country, and you ensure alignment of the programme with the partner country needs and context.
• You are a connector between the national (country) level and the multi-countryprogramme and you connect different partners within the country as well.
• You support in setting up appropriate structuresand working arrangements with the partners involved.
• You map the needs and opportunities  in the country. You ensure strong knowledge of the country’s context.
• You are the main contact for support and collaborationwith the multi-country programme current and future implementation partners within the country.
• You support in the follow up on delivery of project activitiesin the country and the communication of regular process and project updates both internally and externally, including reporting to partners.

If you’re our Country Liaison Advisor, your workweek at the office will include the following highlights:

ogether with ACSL team, you coordinate with different partners within a target country to align the country intervention with the PANA scope to provide technical support and ensure alignment of the programme.

You support the Regional Coordinator with the development of opportunities and structures to improve communication inside and outside of Pan-African ACSL and our stakeholders, and you break down barriers that may get in the way of effective communication and engagement.

You provide support to education institutions and networks, by offering opportunities that foster professional development at institutional level and strengthen cooperation between ACSL and other stakeholders of the educational system to anticipate to current and future challenges.

Lunch! A perfect way to informally check in with your ACSL colleagues to hear

the latest updates about the mission done to a target country and their involvement in a country mapping exercise.

You support the Regional Coordinator with the preparation of a working session with the ACSL implementing partners on the programme reports, within the mandate of the programme, the framework of cooperation with the partners and following the funding partner’s guidelines.

Who are you?

Your expertise and experience

• Master’s degree in education or related field or equivalent experience.
• Five years’ Experience in School leadership
• Knowledge of the broader region / context and its development partners
• Language skills: English CEFR Level C1 and French is an asset.
• MEAL previous experience is an asset.
• You are authorized to work in Rwanda or Kenya.

Matching competences

VVOB core competences:

• Results and goal oriented
• Lifelong learning and improvement
• Cooperation within a team and with other stakeholders

Function specific competencies:

• Creativity
• Development Orientated
• 360 Empathy
• Communication Skills
• Problem Analysis & Judgement

What we’re offering:

• A full-time national contract, until December 2026.
• A dynamic working environment in an international context.
• An exciting job in a growing organisation with varied responsibilities and opportunities for professional development;
• A competitive salary and benefits package;
• Please note that for this position frequent travel within the African continent is required.

Join us:

As soon as possible.

What’s next?

Your motivation letter detailing your match with the profile as well as your motivation behind applying for the vacancy and a detailed CV are expected no later than 6 June 2025.

Shortlisted candidates will participate in an interview process, and may undergo evaluation at an external assessment centre, prior to receiving a potential final offer.

VVOB is committed to the belief that quality education can only be achieved through ensuring equity. Qualities of people prevail, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or disability. If you require reasonable accommodations, including disability-related support, during the application process, interviews, pre-employment testing, or any other part of the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries and applications to: [email protected] .