Other · Full-time
Direct employerSenior Associate, Rwanda
KamonyiSenior · HybridCloses Monday, 16 November 2026, 23:59 CATChecked 6 Nov 2026
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About this role
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Role overview
Aceli Africa needs a Senior Associate in Rwanda to support lending to agricultural small and medium enterprises. Reporting to the Rwanda Manager, you will work with colleagues across East Africa and the United States, and with lenders, technical-assistance providers, data organisations, associations, donors and policymakers.
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What you will do
- Communicate with lending partners, onboard Rwandan lenders to the Aceli Network and maintain those relationships.
- Extend bank engagement to branches that originate agricultural loans and follow up with SMEs in technical-assistance programmes.
- Keep contacts, meeting notes, engagement records, referrals and outcomes up to date.
- Arrange lender and SME events, training, workshops, investor pitches, matchmaking, team retreats, field visits and partner meetings.
- Collect and check SME and lender data, support impact assessments and site visits, and coordinate gender-lens-investing activity.
- Maintain Salesforce and Power BI data, resolve system issues with Product and Operations, and prepare donor and internal-report inputs.
- Support policy meetings with the National Bank of Rwanda and other stakeholders, including research, briefings, presentations, speaking notes, summaries and action tracking.
- Monitor reforms on agricultural-loan classification and provisioning, credit guarantees, and agri-SME collateral rules and valuations, and report their implications.
Requirements
- Have a bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Development Studies, Economics, Business Administration or a related field.
- Bring at least five years in SME finance, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, relationship management or donor-funded programme delivery.
- Lending, agricultural finance, SME development or financial-inclusion experience in Rwanda or East Africa is an advantage.
- Organise competing priorities carefully and pay close attention to detail.
- Be proficient with Microsoft Office; Salesforce, other CRM systems or Power BI and similar dashboards are advantageous.
- Write and speak English very well, have working Kinyarwanda and preferably French.
- Work proactively with a team while needing little supervision.
- Have the right to live and work in Rwanda.
How to apply
Send an updated CV and cover letter through the employer's official contact by 16 November 2026. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.