Project Manager at Our Sisters Opportunity (OSO): (Deadline 20 November 2022)

Project Manager at Our Sisters Opportunity (OSO): (Deadline 20 November 2022)

Northern Province-Gakenke District-Gakenke Sector-Cell Buheta- Karorero Village

Email:info@oursistersopportunity.org- Phone Number: 0788600050

OSO PROJECT  MANAGER JOB ADVERT

Reports to: OSO Executive Director

Location: Gakenke District

Timeframe: Open-ended

Closing date: November 20^th, 2022

WHO WE ARE

Our Sisters Opportunity- OSO is a Non-Governmental Organization, founded in 2019. OSO is based in Gakenke District, Northern Province, Rwanda. We seek to help vulnerable girls and young women achieve lasting economic empowerment through vocational training and creation of safe, decent, sustainable employment. We envision a poverty free world where everyone has an equal opportunity to discover and fulfil their potential. Our mission is to transform community livelihoods by providing vulnerable girls and women with skills, tools, safe space and resources they need, to create for themselves safe, decent, sustainable jobs in the areas of digital fashion and agribusiness. OSO stakeholders and right holders embody and advocate for our core values, which include empathetic, equity, innovation, leadership, integrity and excellence.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is for someone who envision to advance gender equality dimensions, improve women economic empowerment and alleviate poverty amongst vulnerable girls and young women. This person should be passionate about mentorship and conducting dialogue sessions about gender and power concepts, prevention of Gender Based Violence-GBV and improving women participation in economic decision making. This person should also be passionate about creating girls entrepreneurs and support them to build their own businesses in their respective villages.  The duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to the following:

Prevention of GBV through Empowered Woman Project

• Recruit and onboard the OSO Community Girls Focal Points-OSO CGFP.
• Facilitate Trainings of Trainers-ToT to OSO staffs and OSO Community Girls Focal Points on gender & power concepts, GBV & laws and policies as well as skills to address norms and values underlying GBV.
• Conduct monthly dialogue sessions to various cohorts including teen mothers and vulnerable young girls cohort- duty bearers including local leaders, health care providers cohort – and parents and guardians cohort; on gender & power concepts, GBV laws and policies as well as skills to address norms and values underlying GBV.
• Create and manage partnerships with Hospitals and Health Centers that provide information on GBV and psychosocial support to OSO Right Holders.
• Provide information on mental health and psychosocial support to victims of GBV.
• Manage and prepare the certification process for OSO CGFP effectively.
• Conduct and manage monitoring and evaluation processes of gender transformation related projects including but not limited to GBV prevention, promotion of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, gender and power concepts, girls agency, and women economic decision making.
• Create projects report in timely manner.

Creation of girls entrepreneurial leaders

• Coordinate the recruitment process of OSO Creative Design Academy students.
• Manage the provision of theoretical and practical one year course to OSO Creative Design Academy students.
• Work in collaboration with OSO lecturers, to adjust curriculums based on NESA standards, to create students school calendars and lessons plans.
• Coordinate the trainings of entrepreneurship and sessions about participation of women in economic decision making that are given to OSO Creative Design Academy students.
• Organize the provision of business start ups packages to OSO Creative Design Academy students based on their business plans.
• Coordinate and examine OSO students transcripts.
• Organize OSO students graduations.
• Supervise the OSO alumni businesses as well as ongoing business coaching.
• Create relationships with government institutions, local NGOs, business companies, businesses in hospitality sector to obtain OSO graduate work contracts.
• Develop marketing strategies to increase OSO graduate sales.
• Write grants proposals.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Quality

• Create and follow up with OSO quality standards implementation to ensure that OSO alumni and current OSO students are in line with OSO quality standards.
• Ensure OSO clients are satisfied in terms of quality products, customer care, delivery services, etc according to OSO client satisfaction scores.

Team Management, administration and partnerships

• Provide guidance, support, mentorship to OSO team and OSO alumni network.
• Ensure effective partnership with local Government to support the accomplishment of organizational objectives and community positive outcomes.
• Manage deadlines, outputs and outcomes of OSO staffs and OSO Alumni.
• Conduct consistent check-in with OSO team and OSO Alumni.
• Ensure organizational success by maintaining and promoting team culture and OSO values.
• Coordinate projects annual, quarterly planning processes, lead their implementation processes and reporting.
• Ensure effective implementation of OSO protocols and procedures, as well as manuals. This include but not limited to financial manual, procurement manuals, Quality, safeguarding, production procedures, etc
• Support annual, quarterly and monthly budget creation, as well as budgets monitoring processes.
• Supervise OSO staffs and OSO Alumni payments to ensure they get paid in time.
• Ensure organizational data is accurate and collected in timely manner.
• Supervise OSO inventory management and stock accounts.
• Ensure that OSO meets project KPIs targets.
• Represent OSO in the in-person stakeholders meetings, workshops, online video, conferences and summits.
• Develop and manage partnerships with funders, local government, local NGOs, business compagnies, schools and universities, hospitals and health centers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Gender studies is preferred. Also Business, Development studies, Project Management, or other relevant degree.

KEYS COMPETENCIES AND ATTITUDE

• Proven experience in gender related work, entrepreneurship, project management with more than three (3) years of experience.
• Proven experience in training, facilitation of workshops or dialogue sessions preferably in gender and/or entrepreneurship.
• Experience in collecting qualitative and quantitative data.
• Experience working with Non Profit Organizations.
• Ability to write grants and professional reports.
• High advisory skills especially in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Enjoys working in rural settings with vulnerable communities.
• Work hard and work with the team to achieve timelines and organizational vision.
• Aligned with OSO values. Treat everyone with fairness, empathy, and compassion. Should be a gender sensitive leader, build a culture of inclusion and celebrate diversity.
• Stay curious to learn and grow and bring humility to support OSO team and OSO Alumni.
• Thirsty to create more, lasting and generational impact amongst OSO right holders.
• Celebrate strengths, learn from challenges and always find/ innovate ways to improvements.
• Effective communication, details and goal oriented with adherence to deliverables and deadlines.
• Computer literacy, with proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite and Google suite. Adobe illustration would be a plus.
• Ability to maintain customer satisfactory score at highest level possible.
• Ability to use project management, sales, finance softwares.
• Strive to perform and deliver beyond expectations.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, work well in teams, and demonstrate flexibility in a fast -paced work environment.
• Be an active listener, fast learner and a problem solver.
• Excellent in speaking, writing and reading in English and in Kinyarwanda.

NOTE: Women are encouraged to apply and only shortlisted applicants will be reached out.

REQUIRED INFORMATION

The consultant shall submit the following:

• CV
• Degrees, transcripts and relevant certificates.
• Motivation letter

The applications should be submitted electronically  to Our Sisters Opportunity-OSO via email : uwadelly1@gmail.com and CC info@oursistersopportunity.org  , no later than November 20^th, 2022.