5 Job Positions at Cordaid: (Deadline 20 April 2026)
Finance and Administration Officer (FAO) at Cordaid: (Deadline 20 April 2026)
Finance and Administration Officer (FAO)
Job Category: Grade 5 (Cordaid Rwanda Job Scale)
Duty Station: Kigali Head Office
Employment Type: Contractual
Deadline: 20th April 2026
Supervisor: (Country) Finance and Administration Manager
Supervises: Noone
Number of Positions:1
Background
Cordaid is an international humanitarian and development organisation that operates in the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected regions. In these places, millions of people strive for what everyone deserves: safety, peace, healthcare when needed, a livelihood, and food for tomorrow. Their quest is universal: to live in dignity. We drive lasting change by strengthening essential basic services and systems, with a focus on healthcare, agri-food, and justice & peace. Where disaster strikes, we join our partners in humanitarian action.
Our approach is demand-driven, supporting local communities, civil society organisations, and the local private sector to take the lead in shaping their own future. Rooted in the Netherlands and backed by 250,000 private donors, Cordaid is globally connected through numerous thematic and faith-based networks, among others Caritas Internationalis, CIDSE, and the ACT Alliance.
Finance and Administration Officer (FAO)
Cordaid is seeking a dedicated Finance and Administration Officer to support the implementation and coordination of activities by ensuring sound financial management, administrative efficiency, and compliance with donor and organizational requirements.
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
Administration
- Review the codes on the payment requisitions before entry into Finance system
- Review of staff accountabilities like travel accountabilities, entry into the system and reconciliation on a weekly basis
- Regularly Process payments through the electronic banking system
- Implement and maintain an effective filing system to ensure that all financial records are easily accessible and readily available
- Check and carry out the petty cash count each Month with the Finance Manager
Finance
- Post financial expenditures in the system by analyzing, compiling expenditure reports, and presenting them to the Finance Manager.
- Check the correctness of coding, completeness of financial documents and review the payments prior to posting to the financial system
- Manage all supporting documents.
- Verify and certify accurate transactions in accordance with the standard guideline.
Bank management
- Act as a bank agent
- Manage all bank accounts and review the accuracy of bank reconciliation statements on a monthly basis and follow up on any reconciling item.
Audit Facilitation
- Facilitating both internal and external audits and the preparation of financial statements for auditors for both office and donor audits.
Integrity
- Adheres to the code of conduct and Integrity Policies, reports about concerns and follows regular integrity trainings. This is a medium-risk position, with no direct contact with vulnerable communities.
Other
- Any other duties assigned by the manager
Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences
- Essential – A degree in Accounting/Finance or related field
- At least 2 years’ working experience in a similar position with International NGO’s
- Knowledge of finance systems, planning & control, (computerized) accounting, (compliance)
- legislation, reporting standards and languages.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office package) and other web-based accounting systems
- Strong financial background with knowledge of different funding modalities
- Good interpersonal & communication skills, including intercultural communication
- Excellent language skills in English
- Stress management and ability to multitask
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- A good team player
- Able to explain and enforce Cordaid Policies
- Knowledge of the mission and goals of the Cordaid program and security policy.
Behavioral values and skills: trustworthy, accountability, problem solving, cooperation, flexibility, creativity, collaboration, etc.
Competency
- Personal Integrity
- Creative and Innovative
- Open and outgoing
- Results Oriented
- People skills
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Ability to work independently under pressure and proactive work style
KRAs
- Financial Administration
- Finance System(s)
- Bank Management
- Audit Facilitation
- File management
Others/Extra Details
Cordaid is fully committed to providing a safe and welcoming workplace to its employees, and to maintain the respect and dignity of everyone that comes into contact with Cordaid. Therefore, Cordaid participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
For more information about Cordaid’s work on integrity https://www.cordaid.org/en/who-we-are/integrity-and-code-of-conduct/.
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.
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4 Job Positions of Project Officer at Cordaid: (Deadline 20 April 2026)
Project Officer
Job Category: Grade 6 (Cordaid Rwanda Job Scale)
Duty Station: Field Position
Employment Type: Contractual
Salary Scale: Not Specified
Deadline: 20th April 2026
Number of Positions: 4
Background
Cordaid is an international humanitarian and development organisation that operates in the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected regions. In these places, millions of people strive for what everyone deserves: safety, peace, healthcare when needed, a livelihood, and food for tomorrow. Their quest is universal: to live in dignity. We drive lasting change by strengthening essential basic services and systems, with a focus on healthcare, agri-food, and justice & peace. Where disaster strikes, we join our partners in humanitarian action.
Our approach is demand-driven, supporting local communities, civil society organisations, and the local private sector to take the lead in shaping their own future. Rooted in the Netherlands and backed by 250,000 private donors, Cordaid is globally connected through numerous thematic and faith-based networks, among others Caritas Internationalis, CIDSE, and the ACT Alliance.
Project Officer
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
Application requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences
- A bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences, Development studies, Economics, Business Administration, or related fields.
- At least 3-5 years of experience in agricultural value chain development, market systems, rural finance, or cooperative development.
- Experience working with donor-funded projects, particularly in climate resilience, agriculture, or economic development, is highly desirable.
- Prior experience working with cooperatives, SMEs, and financial institutions is required.
- Strong knowledge of livestock value chains and rural livelihoods.
- Experience in developing inclusive business models and market linkages.
- Proficiency in facilitating access to finance for smallholder farmers and animal husbandry,
- Ability to conduct training and capacity-building for farmer organizations, MSMEs, and cooperatives.
- Strong project coordination and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English; knowledge of Kinyarwanda is required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and data analysis tools.
Work Conditions
- The position is field based in the project intervention districts.
- Frequent travel to rural communities, cooperatives, and partner organizations will be required.
- The Project Officer will work closely with Cordaid, and other project partners and stakeholders.
Core Competencies
- Quality orientation
- Organizational awareness including planning
- Negotiation skills
- Dealing with details
- Problem analysis
- Conceptual thinking
- Social awareness
- Intercultural orientation
- Managing conflict
Key Result Area:
Access to finance:
- Financial education
- Product Development
- Linkage of Financial Institutions
- Communication
Value Chain Development
- Develop non-financial services
- Planning, implementation and monitoring of livestock value chain activities
- Linkage of dairy actors
- Partner Selection
- Capacity building
- Communication
Others/Extra Details
Cordaid is fully committed to providing a safe and welcoming workplace to its employees, and to maintain the respect and dignity of everyone that comes into contact with Cordaid. Therefore, Cordaid participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
For more information about Cordaid’s work on integrity https://www.cordaid.org/en/who-we-are/integrity-and-code-of-conduct/.
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.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND APPLY
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