Project Coordinator, Value Chain Development

**Location**

Karongi District, Western Province

**Salary**

RWF 20,091,660 - RWF 22,921,476 gross per annum, depending on experience.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

Other

**About the Role**

This position will play a pivotal role in advancing the targeted value chains (Egg, High Iron Beans, Large-Scale Food Fortification and Fruit trees) to improve nutrition outcomes through sustainable food systems.

This role will support the delivery of the programme’s micro
- and meso-level objectives by ensuring the effective roll-out of key interventions, including value chain development, market facilitation and linkage, SMEs support, and the private sector mobilization. The coordinator will be instrumental in establishing and strengthening partnerships with local private sector actors, cooperatives, in the programme’s prioritized value chains: High-Iron Beans, Eggs, Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF).

In close collaboration with existing public and private extension services, the Project Coordinator will work to enhance food systems’ performance across these value chains. A key focus will be on facilitating local market linkages to improve the availability, accessibility, and affordability of nutritious foods promoted by the programme. All efforts will be aligned with Rwanda’s national priorities to improve household dietary diversity, food security, and child nutrition outcomes in the targeted districts, with a strong focus on youth employment.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- Responsible for the day-to-day operational delivery and monitoring of value chain development activities, aimed at strengthening supply chains from input/production to retail for key commodities (eggs, high-iron beans, fruits, and fortified foods). The objective is to ensure these supply chains are sustainable, while improving the availability and accessibility of safe and nutritious foods.
- Collaborate with project partners at the local level to implement innovative value chain interventions to increase production, market access, and consumption of target commodities (eggs, high-iron beans (HIB), fruit and fortified foods) in alignment with project goals.
- Coordinate local market linkages and collaboration among producers, aggregators, processors, and community-level markets (e.g., school feeding programs).
- Collaborate with the Project Manager to design and deliver workshops and training sessions for smallholder farmers and MSMEs, focusing on nutrition-sensitive agriculture, improved post-harvest handling, and business management skills, with the aim of enhancing productivity, reducing post-harvest losses, and increasing access to nutritious foods.
- Monitor the uptake and performance of microgrants, loans, or savings initiatives among value chain actors.
- Work with local officials, GAIN team in identifying potential SMEs, cooperatives, and input suppliers, and facilitate their capacity strengthening through targeted value chain interventions.

**About you**

The post holder should possess excellent project management skills to ensure implementation is delivered on time, within budget and quality output is present in the activities. You should be able to operate independently with mínimal supervision and possess strong interpersonal skills while coordinating with the community engagement officer.

An education background with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, public health, Agriculture Business, Rural Development, Social Sciences, or a related field is required.

**About our Offer**

The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from RWF 20,091,660 - RWF 22,921,476 gross per annum, depending on experience.

GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments, and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.

**About GAIN**

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver healthier diets for all people, especially the most vulnerable.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food. Today, one in three people - drawn from nearly every country on the planet - are unable to consume enough nutritious food. We work to develop and deliver solutions to this daily chal