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CARE International is seeking to recruit a “Technical Advisor Enterprise Development.
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.
Join Our Team as an Enterprise Development Technical Advisor.
Are you passionate about transforming lives through enterprise development and economic empowerment? CARE is seeking a dynamic and experienced Enterprise Development Technical Advisor to lead the design and implementation of innovative, high-impact strategies that drive entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihoods for vulnerable women and girls.
As a key technical lead, you will shape and oversee enterprise development initiatives across CARE’s programming, ensuring quality, scalability, and sustainability. You will provide expert guidance, develop impactful tools, and build the capacity of staff and partners, while also representing CARE in national and regional platforms. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in positioning CARE as a leader in enterprise development and economic justice.
Why Join CARE?
At CARE, we are committed to building a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice. We invest in our people, promote diversity, and support professional development. This is your opportunity to join a purpose-driven team and contribute to impactful change in communities that need it most.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership: Design and roll out strategies, tools, and interventions to support inclusive enterprise development and entrepreneurship.
Quality Assurance: Develop and implement quality control mechanisms to monitor program effectiveness and impact.
Capacity Building: Lead the training and mentoring of staff and partners, strengthening their ability to support local entrepreneurs.
Innovation & Learning: Work closely with the Impact Measurement team to pilot new approaches, evaluate results, and scale up best practices.
Partnership & Advocacy: Represent CARE in relevant technical and policy forums, building strategic partnerships and influencing sectoral agendas.
Requirements for the Role
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g. Enterprise Development, Business Management, Development Management or Social Science)
- Project Management Certification (PIMM)
- Master's Degree in Development Management or Social Science
Experience:
- 8 years’ experience in designing, coordinating, and managing projects in Enterprise Development/entrepreneurship development, business management and advisory projects.
- 4 of the 8 years in designing strategies and coordinating capacity building of partner organizations including management of people
- 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 skills:
- Demonstrated management capacities, as evidenced by strong planning, coordination, and teamwork skills leading to the consistent achievement of significant results
- Excellent understanding of economic development and poverty analysis
- Strong people management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management;
- Demonstrated interest and ability to give feedback, develop, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results
- Ability to establish a learning culture and to facilitate knowledge sharing
- Demonstrated proposal writing and report writing skills
- Ability to engage, motivate and drive high performing teams through influencing and adult learning techniques
- Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills in English; fluency in spoken Kinyarwanda and French
If you're ready to take on this rewarding challenge and contribute to reshaping the future for marginalized women and girls, we invite you to apply! Share your resume and a compelling cover letter detailing your relevant experience and vision for empowering marginalized people.
- 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 women and girls, 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.
Applications should be submitted no later than October 29th, 2025. Please click on the “Apply” button to complete your application.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps.
*Disclaimer: CARE International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment.