TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR RECRUITEMENT: Education Project Manager

Job Title: Education Project Manager

Reporting to: Executive Director

IMPACT HOPE BACKGROUND

IMPACT HOPE RWANDA is non-profit and non-governmental organization aimed to promote the wellbeing of young people from vulnerable communities through education support and livelihood. We do so by promoting social, economic, and psychological transformation

Description of the position

Impact Hope Rwanda is recruiting an Education Project Manager for its Education project”. This position will be responsible for the overall implementation of the education activities, such as the preparation of work plans, the organisation of training, monitoring and evaluation of the project, managing the budget and the achievement of the project objectives. It will also ensure the coordination of partner organisations and compliance with all reporting obligations, and will be responsible for the consolidation of partners’ and local platforms’ activity reports.

The hired Education Project Manager will be settled in the Impact Hope Rwanda headquarters and work under the supervision of the Executive Director.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall management of the project: planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of the project activities, such as creating work plans, planning and designing the programme and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• defining the governance arrangements
• ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the project;
• managing the project’s budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the project progresses
• ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the project;
• managing communications with all stakeholders
• managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• managing risks to the project’s successful outcome
• initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the project are identified or issues arise reporting the progress of the project at regular intervals to the Executive Director.

Recruitment Criteria

• Open to Rwandan nationals.
• At least three years’ experience in education projects management.
• A strong knowledge of the Rwandan education context;
• Excellent capacity of spoken and written English, French and Kinyarwanda.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Relevant university degree in social sciences, project management, development studies, law, political sciences or related field.
• A professional experience of at least 3 years in education project management
• Strong research and policy analysis experience, preferably in education related issues.

Skills and abilities

• Strong presentation, writing and negotiation skills, including the ability to elaborate guidance, terms of reference and grant proposals.
• Strong interpersonal and relationships management skills.
• Strong ability of collaboration with a range of stakeholders (Rwandan government institutions, civil society and social service providers) at national and district level.
• Ability to work independently and to be self-managing.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks within deadlines.
• Ability to organize and prioritize own work with limited supervision.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
• Basic financial management skills and able to work within limited resources.
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken); French is an added value.

Application deadline: 11/03/2022 , 11 am, Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Done at Kigali,  07/03/2022

Mutamuliza Judith

Executive Director