ThinkImpact Program Coordinator Job Vacancy in Rwanda

approach to our work, which
means we don’t focus on what a community needs or lacks, but rather we emphasize
the resources they already have and how we can leverage those assets. Teams
then research, develop and prototype small business ideas, creating
opportunities for the community to grow and thrive. The ultimate goal of our
programs is to learn through collaboration.

• Assist in set up and management of all
  ThinkImpact programs
• Facilitate Institute programs, living fulltime in
  the rural communities where ThinkImpact works during programs
• Grow ThinkImpact’s presence and network
• Travel to ThinkImpact’s site locations as needed
• Take pictures and videos, and write blogs to
  capture the Program Coordinator experience
• Document ThinkImpact’s operations and write
  country specific operations handbooks to retain internal memory
• Train the next group of Program Coordinators

• Assist in finding, vetting, and contracting
  service providers, for all in country operations including transport,
  hotels, meals, water, excursions, etc.
• Assist in managing operational relationships
• Assist in building out budgets
• Manage finances, bookkeeping of payments and
  receipts in country
• Document programs through media and experiment
  with latest technology for information and media transfer

• Develop and test curriculum activities
• Collect curriculum feedback and iterate on
  suggestions
• Create training presentations and run program
  participant trainings
• Oversee and advise on curriculum progress during
  programs

• Network and build strategic partnerships with
  companies, NGOs, startups, banks, government and other stakeholders
• Identify subject area experts around health,
  education, technology, food, energy, and social innovation
• Cultivate opportunities for community member
  design teams in the form of education, access to market, and access to
  capital partners to provide trainings, grants, loans, business
  accelerators, etc.
• Cultivate opportunities for Institute scholar and
  staff alumni such as jobs, business opportunities/support, accelerators,
  access to capital, etc.

• Strategize to build strong community partnerships
  and improve community setup and operations
• Assist in creating and implementing trainings for
  community members including homestays, translators, etc.
• Collect and manage community data and statistics
• Implement monitoring and evaluation surveys to
  gather data and measure impact metrics

• Bachelor’s Degree Required, Masters Preferred
  (3.3 or better GPA)
• 5+ years living in the United States
• 10+ months living/working in non-OECD country
• 2 years work experience required
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proactive problem solver and easily adaptable
• Experience working with and managing
  multicultural teams
• Project management skills
• Experience leading student teams
• Strategic thinker
• High level of comfort living, working, and
  traveling in Africa/Latin America preferred
• Fluent in English
• Requires close working relationship with American
  travellers and an understanding of American culture is essential
• Preference will be given to former ThinkImpact
  Institute scholars or staff or qualified candidates who are familiar with
  the ThinkImpact Institute or other travel/study abroad programs in the
  developing world

• Experience organizing and managing logistics
• Comfortable working with service providers
• Budgeting and financial management skills

• Experience working with and/or teaching students
• An interest in curriculum development and
  iterating on feedback

• Good networker
• Outgoing and good at follow through
• Experience building and managing partnerships

• Comfort working with rural communities and
  interacting with many stakeholders from government/community leaders to
  host families and translators
• Experience with M&E survey techniques,
  implementation, and analysis

• Approximately 60% of time will be spent working
  in ThinkImpact’s office in the capital city in placement country (Kigali,
  Rwanda)
• Other 40% will be spent on site in rural
  communities a few hours drive from the capital setting up and running
  Institute programs for periods of 1 week to 10 weeks.

• Monthly living stipend between $1000-$1500 based
  on country cost of living
• One round trip flight to placement country
• Visa fees
• All room and board expenses covered when running
  Institute programs
• Travel insurance

• Vaccinations and medication are not covered