Project Officer

Job Description

Cordaid is seeking dedicated Project Officers to support in implementing and coordinating field-based activities to enhance market access, promote sustainable business models, and strengthen financial inclusion. The Project Officer will work closely with dairy farmers and farmers’ organizations, cooperatives, MSMEs, financial institutions, and local authorities to enhance the dairy field and access to finance.

The incumbent is expected to dedicate approximately 90% of their time to financial and administrative management and 10% to acquisition and business development support in collaboration with the national team.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Project planning:Translates the Cordaid project results into specific results in designated project areas and formulates an operational project plan within the country, keeping the budget propositions margin and eventual possibilities.
• Project management:Assist Program/project managers and Coordinators within Cordaid with respect to risks, stakeholders’ issues and the project team. Support the project actors and contributors for the project successful delivery within the intercultural sensitivity framework. Understands partners like including Milk collection centers (MCCs), Milk processing plants, SACCOs and other MFIs and matches desired results and contextual factors. Stimulates progress and makes necessary adjustments to realize the project within given boundary conditions: scope, time, budget, work quality and results.
• Financial management:Assist Program/project managers and Coordinators in managing the project budget ensuring expenditures alignment with planned budgets. Reports regularly on budget realization and acts proactively to comply with activity’s budget boundary.
• Field & Partner visits:Support program teams to monitor project achievements, conduct field visits with partners and stakeholders, review field reports, analyze field data and formulate conclusions, discussion points and recommendations for all project stakeholders.
• Supported partners:Support program/project managers to recognize the need for support with partner organizations including Milk collection centers (MCCs), Milk processing plants, SACCOs and other MFIs as well as other value chain actors as needed and translate this into customized support, considering particular background and partner organizations’ situation.
• Fund mobilization/BS develop:Contribute and support in the development and writing of successful funding proposals. Interacts with potential local/institutional donors, convincingly argument the added value of Cordaid as to acquire funds and ensure the future funding for the program (s) in Rwanda. This includes increasing revenues, growth in terms of business expansion, increasing profitability by building strategic partnerships and making strategic business decisions.
• Bid management:Support bid manager on calls for proposals and tenders related to the assigned specific donor portfolio. Support negotiations for specific assigned bids, especially Value chain development. The bid team provides donor specific advice on rules, regulations, and policy. Uses donor contacts to ensure the winning outcome of calls and proposals. Oversees the role division, planning and communication with donors and a consortium to achieve a positive outcome for Cordaid.
• Network representation/ Communication:Striving to strengthen collaboration with potential stakeholders outside Cordaid and explore representation and potential areas for collaboration, considering the mission statement of Cordaid and the possibilities within existing projects. Ensure efficient communication with both internal and external partners.
• Project reports:Collects information within the project and reports about the results, specifics, budget and expenditures and possible deviations following required reporting standards, providing solutions to minimize impact of deviations.
• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MERL):Work closely with the monitoring evaluation team to identify project learning opportunities, research and publications of the project results. Facilitates the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned. In collaboration with the MERL team, ensure integration of innovations and best practices generated and implying stakeholders’ impact on stakeholders such as Milk collection centers (MCCs), Milk processing plants, SACCOs and other MFIs.
• Integrity:Adheres to the code of conduct and integrity policies, reports of concern and follows regular integrity training. This is a medium-risk position, with direct contact with vulnerable communities and regular travel.
• Other:Any other duties assigned by the supervisor/manager

How to Apply

Applications including a motivation letter and extensive CV in English will be submitted online through this application link by 20th April 2026 at 23:59 PM.