Vacancy title:
Project Manager

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
Our Sisters Opportunity (OSO)

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 10 2025

Duty Station:
Kigali | Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, July 5 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Our Sisters Opportunity- (OSO) is a Rwanda Non-Governmental Organization founded in 2019, based in Gakenke District, Rwanda. OSO envisions a poverty free world where everyone has an equal opportunity to discover and fulfill their potential. OSO has the mission of transforming the communities’ livelihoods by providing vulnerable young girls and women with the holistic skills, safe spaces, tools and resources they need to create for themselves fulfilling, dignified, sustainable employment in the areas of Digital& Ethical Fashion, Soapmaking and Agribusiness. The employment created, foster lasting improvement of individual, households and community socio-economic status. 

OSO implements additional initiatives that aimed to break cycles of generational poverty, challenge social norms and influence mindset shift among all the stakeholders, parents, duty bearers and community members in order to create a safe, free environment for all to thrive. Those initiatives include the prevention of Gender Based Violence, raise Awareness of Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, Leadership and Mindfulness. OSO stakeholders and rights holders embody and advocate for our core values, which include empathy, equity, innovation, leadership, integrity, and excellence.

About the YEA-R Program

The Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture in Rwanda (YEA-R) program aims to enable 40,000 dignified, fulfilling and equitable work opportunities for young people in the horticulture and poultry value chains. Young women will fill 70% of the total jobs and People with Disabilities targeted will be at least 5% of the total job.

YEA-R program is funded by The Mastercard Foundation and led by SNV Netherlands Development. It brings together a strong consortium of strong partners with complementary expertise in Economic Participation, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion-GESI, and Climate Smart Agriculture. It will be implemented in 10 districts in Rwanda and OSO will support five amongst 10, namely Muhanga, Karongi, Rusizi, Rubavu, and Burera, in the period of 5 years.

This project has 3 pathways and OSO will contribute to Pathways 3: Economic Empowerment, Inclusion and Voices- with a goal of focusing on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion-GESI, unlock youth leadership, improve access, promote agency and voices for young women, men, people living with disabilities agripreneurs, participants of YEA-R program.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Project Manager will be responsible for leading, managing and coordinating the OSO YEA-R Program activities, ensuring its successful implementation as detailed in the project proposal. With the project being implemented in 10 districts; this person will provide strategic direction, oversee field teams in 5 districts and establish partnerships with key stakeholders to ensure that the project achieves its intended outcomes. S/he will regularly track key performance indicators to assess the impact of this project and do timely reporting.

S/he will also oversee and manage other projects of OSO, namely the OSO Creative Design School, Agribusiness, Soap making and Community Gender Transformation. S/he will lead OSO organizational operations as well as in country partnerships.

This role is for someone who envision to advance Gender Equality and Social Inclusion dimension, improve youth economic empowerment and alleviate poverty amongst vulnerable young people, especially girls and young women, in order to improve livelihoods at households level and community at a large . They must be a strategic thinker, effective communicator, good manager, well organized, with time managements kills, creative and strongly passionate about gender transformation. This person should be knowledgeable and experienced on different gender transformation approaches, stakeholders engagement and community mobilization to influence mindset shift.

Responsibilities

Project Planning & Strategy

• KeyCoordinate the overall implementation of OSO YEA-R program strategic planning to ensure effective implementation.
• Lead project annual, quarterly and monthly planning processes, and lead their implementation processes.
• Develop and manage comprehensive program annual, quarterly and monthly plans, timelines, and budgets.
• Identify and mitigate risks across projects within the program.

Project Coordination & Execution

Coordinate the harmonization of GESI training materials for YEA-R project.

• Ensure that Gender Equality and Social Inclusion,safeguarding principles are fully integrated into project activities at the maximum level.
• Train and support YEA-R implementing partner staff on GESI transformation approaches.
• Oversee the execution of program training, dialogue sessions on GBV prevention, gender-responsive, economic resilience, social inclusion and gender mainstreaming amongst the program participants.
• Supervise the identification of GESI champions.
• Facilitate the training of consortium members on GESI.
• Work with actors across the horticulture and poultry value chain (VCs) to address gendered and social power dynamics (ongoing throughout program period)
• Coordinate efforts across multiple project teams and ensure alignment.
• Monitor project progress and adjust resources or timelines as needed.

Stakeholder Management

• Develop and manage partnerships with local and national stakeholders, including government agencies, private sector actors, project partners and community based organizations.
• Represent OSO in the stakeholders meetings, workshops, online meetings, conferences and summits.
• Attend the necessary events at national and districts platforms, advocating for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, youth economic empowerment and inclusive programming.
• Work with OSO stakeholders to support the overall OSO Gender Transformation initiatives, identify challenges, risks and mitigation strategies to ensure program sustainability.

Performance Tracking & Reporting

• Manage monitoring and evaluation processes of the project, ensuring robust data collection, documentation and analysis to measure project impact and use data to inform future programming.
• Support Monitoring and Evaluation Lead-MEL to monitor the project’s annual, quarterly and monthly KPIs.
• Work with MEL to prepare quarterly evaluation results to inform the project progress, and share them with senior leadership.
• Work with MEL to plan for annual, quarterly program targets that feed into project strategic targets.

Budget Management and Compliance

• Oversee project budget management, ensuring resources are used efficiently and in compliance with donor requirements.
• Coordinates project budget monitoring and evaluation.
• Ensure that all the project expenditures follow organizational finance, procurement, travel, internal regulations protocols.
• Work closely with finance team to prepare annual and quarterly financial budgets and reporting.
• Prepare financial status reports and presentations for senior leadership.
• Regularly track project budgets.

Team Leadership

• Supervise and provide technical guidance to the project team, including Field Officers, ensuring that activities are carried out effectively and inclusively.
• Lead, mentor, and support project officers and cross-functional team members.
• Foster collaboration and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure the availability of capacity development opportunities for project team members.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7+ years of experience in program or project management.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana).
• PMP, PgMP, or similar certification preferred.

Key Competencies:

• Strategic thinking and planning
• Risk and change management
• Financial and resource management
• Conflict resolution and negotiation
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

REPORTING

This position, reports to OSO Executive Director.

• Monitor the transfer of skills by GESI Champions to other youth groups and the community

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Social Work, Development Studies or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in community development, women empowerment, gender equality or GESI-focused projects.
• Experience delivering trainings and working with vulnerable groups, particularly women, girls, youth and persons with disabilities.
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, data entry tools).
• Demonstrated ability in community mobilization, stakeholder engagement and participatory facilitation.
• Strong understanding of gender and inclusion principles, intersectionality and power dynamics.
• Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda is required
• Excellent facilitation, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work independently and in diverse teams
• Willingness to be based in and travel frequently within the assigned district.
• Familiarity with local governance structures and district-level administration is an asset.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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