Project Coordinator

About this role

SNV is recruiting a Project Coordinator to lead its clean cooking results-based financing programme in Tanzania. SNV is a global development partner working across Africa and Asia on agri-food, energy, and water systems. The programme aims to accelerate uptake of higher-tier clean cooking solutions by strengthening private sector delivery channels and using performance-based incentives to help local companies expand and professionalise. The coordinator will implement the programme in line with its design, objectives, results framework, and workplan.

Core duties include developing RBF manuals, procedures, selection criteria, and competitive award processes, coordinating selection and contracting of eligible clean cooking companies, and overseeing RBF grants and financing instruments with due diligence, financial controls, and compliance. The post-holder provides technical oversight to participating companies, monitors milestones, oversees independent results verification, and authorises performance-based disbursements. They also manage budgets, expenditure, forecasting, financial reporting, monitoring, risk management, staff supervision, and engagement with companies, government, financial institutions, and verification agencies. The coordinator represents SNV in sector forums.

Candidates must hold a master's degree, MBA, or advanced degree, with at least seven years of senior experience on complex development programmes. SNV requires fund management experience, preferably in improved cooking technologies, understanding of Tanzania's improved cooking market, a track record structuring RBF facilities for market stimulation, and knowledge of for-profit business success factors. Experience managing donor, government, and business relationships and a post-graduate energy qualification are desirable. Fluency in English and Kiswahili is required.

The duty station is Dar es Salaam on a contract, with a desired start date of January 2027, subject to funding. Applications need a three-page CV, a one-page motivation letter with expected salary, and a short answer on RBF experience, submitted via the I AM INTERESTED button by 30 November 2026.