Project Manager Rwanda and Burundi Programme

Based: Kigali, with extensive travel within Rwanda and occasional travel to Burundi

We are looking for a person with a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and highly collegial personal working style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes in Rwanda and Burundi.

You will be responsible for supporting the continued growth and consolidation of the Rwanda/Burundi Programme. The position will work across programme projects and thematic strands to ensure that programme staff and partners have the peacebuilding knowledge and expertise needed to ensure the production of high-quality, high-impact programme outputs.

The successful candidate will have solid experience of programme design and project management in the NGO sector, including responsibility for budgets, staff and donor relations. You will have expertise on peacebuilding. You will be articulate and persuasive, and have a proven ability to build strong working relationships using collaborative approaches. You will be fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda.

Ideally, you will also have experience of building coalitions within civil society, have relevant research experience, and possess an innovative, creative, problem-solving approach.

Please note we do not accept CVs.  To apply, please send a completed application form which can be found under ‘How to Apply’ to Jean Bosco Siborurema at jbsiborurema@international-alert.org

Closing date is 20^th February 2012 at 5pm Kigali time.

Interviews will take place in Kigali.

While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources.  Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.

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