JOB ADVERTISEMENT: 

CARE International is seeking to recruit a “Project Manager”. 

Introduction

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE International aims to be a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty.

Are you passionate about building inclusive and resilient communities?

Are you an experienced project management professional with a strong commitment to social cohesion, gender equality, youth empowerment, and inclusive economic opportunities?

Do you thrive on bringing diverse partners together, turning strategies into results, and ensuring that development initiatives deliver meaningful and sustainable change?

If so, CARE Rwanda is seeking an experienced and passionate Project Manager to lead the implementation of the Borderland Project, an initiative focused on strengthening resilience, and inclusive economic opportunities in cross-border communities.

Through this project, you will work alongside diverse partners and stakeholders to support women, youth, displaced people, host communities, and groups experiencing multiple vulnerabilities, helping create communities that are more economically resilient.

About the Role

The Project Manager (PM) contributes to the realization of the Country Office (CO) Program Strategy by managing the implementation of the CO project, namely Borderland, ensuring that plans are aligned with the Country Office strategy and delivered on time and to the project management standards and donor requirements. 

The PM serves as the main contact person and liaises with project consortium members and leadership, the CO team including Program director, CARE MEAL Team, and the Program Support and Finance teams to ensure timely and quality support to projects, e.g. through various CO coordination mechanisms like participation in multi-disciplinary project management teams, program coordination meetings. The position holder works together with the Director of Growth and Knowledge Management department to ensure that learning from projects is used to keep projects on track and continually improve, and develop new strategies, tools and approaches, and do the necessary adaptations. In addition, the PM’s responsible for overseeing the deployment of CARE’s resources in projects and implementing risk management and accountability strategies according to CARE International, Government of Rwanda, and Donor policies. The project manager directly reports to the Program Director.

Who We Are Looking For:

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g. Project management, Economics, Development studies or Social Science)
• Master’s degree in project management or Qualified Project Management certification (added advantage)

Experience:

•  6-10 years in project management role in the development sector; prior experience in related areas/sector programming preferred.
• At least three years' experience managing multi-donor-funded projects and projects with foundations and/or institutional donors.
• Demonstrated experience in program design, implementation and evaluation, including participatory approaches
• Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with implementing partners, donors and government counterparts.

Technical competencies:

• Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a complex international setting
• Demonstrated ability in managing different types of partnerships
• Strong human resource management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management; 
•  Ability to establish a learning culture and to facilitate knowledge sharing 
• Ensuring donor compliance and reporting
• Experience in women and girls-centered programming approach will be an advantage
• Very high-quality written work and language skills in English; ability to speak in French & Kinyarwanda

How to apply

If you are a dynamic development professional who combines strong project leadership and coordination skills with a genuine commitment to social cohesion, gender equality, and inclusive economic development, you are encouraged to submit your application by October 2, 2026. Please click on the “Apply” button to complete your application.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps.

Notes:

• CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We are an equal opportunity employer promoting gender, equity, diversity and Inclusion. CARE’s focus as an organization is to empower women and girls as we strongly believe that they are most affected by poverty. In line with our values, we highly encourage women to apply for this position.
• We are committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework.
• CARE International has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of any person or child by any of our staff, or partners. CARE International reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.
• We participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, child abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. 
• By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that they have no objection to CARE International requesting the information specified above.

*Disclaimer: CARE International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment.