3 Job Positions at Expertise France: (Deadline 14
December 2025)
Infrastructure Expert at Expertise France: (Deadline 14
December 2025)
Terms of Reference / Job Description
Infrastructure expert
Isonga 2 Technical assistance project
|
Job
title: Infrastructure
expert Reports
to: Team
leader of the TA project Location: Kigali, Rwanda, with
regular travel to other regions in Rwanda Type
of contract: full-time,
fixed-term contract Contract
duration: 1
year, with possibility of renewal (local contract) Job
Level: senior
level |
Overview
Expertise France is the French agency for international
cooperation established in 2015. The agency develops and implements projects
that sustainably strengthen public policies in low- and middle-income countries
and focuses on four priority areas:
- Strengthening
health systems, social protection and employment;
- Democratic,
economic and financial governance;
- Stability
of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations and security;
- Combating
climate change and favouring sustainable urban development.
In these areas, Expertise France engineers and implements
capacity-building projects, mobilises technical expertise and acts as a project
coordinator, bringing together public expertise and private know-how. With an
annual business volume of 445 million euros in 2024 and over 400 projects in
145 countries, Expertise France’s activities are part of France’s international
cooperation policy and official development assistance.
Active since 2020 in Rwanda, Expertise France Rwanda
implements technical assistance projects, primarily funded by the European
Union, AFD and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The agency’s main areas
of intervention in Rwanda are:
- Health
- Education
and TVET
- Sustainable
development, climate and agriculture
- Digitalisation
Project description
Rwanda recognizes sport as a powerful catalyst for human
development and social transformation. Since the adoption of the Rwanda Sports
Development Policy in 2012, the government has affirmed its commitment to
promote mass participation, equitable access, and talent development in sport.
This commitment was further consolidated through the 2020 School Sports Policy,
which positioned sport as an integral part of the national education pathway,
encouraging health promotion as well as structured and inclusive opportunities
for talent to emerge from pre-primary through higher education.
However, this developing sector faces systemic challenges,
including insufficient number of adequate infrastructure, insufficiently
qualified technical staff, gender disparities, and limited access for learners
with disabilities which continue to hinder the development of a truly inclusive
sports ecosystem.
AFD supported the first phase of ISONGA programme
(2021–2024) with a €1.5 million grant, reaching 599 student-athletes (42%
girls) across 17 pilot schools. This phase delivered initial training, coaching
support, equipment, and coordination mechanisms.
In alignment with these ambitions, Isonga Phase 2 financed
through and loan and a grant of AFD, hold the core objective to
establish a sustainable, inclusive, and gender-responsive national school
sports system. This system aims to guarantee that all girls and boys,
regardless of their background, have equitable opportunities to access
high-quality sports activities as part of their educational journey. Thus, the
program seeks to strengthen their academic retention, nurture civic values, and
contribute to greater social cohesion and youth empowerment across Rwanda. The
phase 2 will also extend the geographic scope, and cover all the districts of
the country to expand the opportunities for the young Rwandan generation.
The second phase of ISONGA (2025–2029) aims to expand and
consolidate this school-based sports system in 42 schools nationwide. Expertise
France is mobilized to provide technical assistance to reinforce the MINISPORT
and notably its Single Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) capacity, enhance
multi-level coordination, and support the professionalization of a sustainable,
inclusive school sports ecosystem throughout the country. The objective of the
technical assistance mission is to ensure strategic, operational, and
institutional support to the Ministry of Sports’ SPIU for the effective
implementation of the ISONGA 2 program.
The role
The Infrastructure Expert will be embedded within
MINISPORTS/SPIU in Kigali and report to the Isonga 2 Technical Assistance
project Team Leader. As a technical advisor, he or she will strengthen the
quality and consistency of sport-infrastructure packages by supporting
standards, procurement documents, bid evaluation, early-works backstopping,
site-supervision protocols and maintenance planning while transferring know-how
to SPIU and partners.
He/she will work on a daily basis with the Infrastructure
Infrastructure Technician specialist of the SPIU notably.
Key Responsibilities
- Revise
and refine technical ToRs, BoQs and specifications for works tenders,
including framework agreements for sport field
construction/rehabilitation.
- Co-develop
and operationalize sport-specific infrastructure standards with
federations and local stakeholders (safety, accessibility, inclusion).
- Contribute
to bid evaluation: review technical proposals against specs/standards and
document quality, compliance and sustainability findings.
- Advise
on supplier/contractor selection, ensuring transparency, eligibility and
delivery capacity; prepare evaluation notes/recommendations.
- Provide
technical backstopping to SPIU during the first wave of works: QA/QC
arrangements, schedule and variation control, and budget integrity.
- Design
and roll out a site supervision toolkit (protocols, checklists,
progress-monitoring templates, reporting tools) and brief/train
SPIU/district focal points.
- Contribute
to the infrastructure maintenance plan, incl. KPIs and the use of
framework repair contracts and basic asset handover documentation.
Profile
Qualifications
Master’s in Civil Engineering/Architecture/Construction
Management (or equivalent); professional licensure an asset.
Professional experience
- 7+
years delivering public infrastructure covering design review, tendering,
early works supervision, handover and maintenance.
- Proven
drafting of technical ToRs/Specifications/BoQs and standardizing unit
quantities for multi-lot
procurements. - Bid
evaluation & supplier selection within public procurement frameworks;
auditable evaluation reports.
- Site
supervision backstopping: Quality Assurance /Quality Controll, progress
controls, risk/variation management, schedule and budget oversight.
- Maintenance
planning and basic asset/lifecycle management; use of framework agreements
for repairs.
- Coordination
with implementation unit (SPIU/ministries) and local actors;
- Experience
in education/sport facilities is a plus.
Skills
- Design
compliance and constructability reviews; value-for-money analysis;
- Quality
control, HSE/safeguarding, and inclusion/accessibility standards embedded
in designs;
- Clear,
buildable technical writing; concise technical notes and recommendations.
- Tools:
plan reading/AutoCAD, MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint), collaboration
platforms; contractor
performance KPIs/monitoring. - Perfect
command of Kinyarwanda and English; fluency in French is an asset.
Additional information
Desired start date: February 2026
Application deadline: December 15th 2025
Remuneration: competitive remuneration will be
offered according to Expertise France’s salary scale and the candidate’s
qualification and experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please apply on that link:
Please provide your CV and cover letter (no longer than 2
pages each), as well as three professional references with
contact details.
Candidates are invited to submit their application as soon
as possible.
Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates before the
application deadline.
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Infrastructure Expert at Expertise France: (Deadline 14
December 2025)
Terms of Reference / Job Description
Infrastructure expert
Isonga 2 Technical assistance project
|
Job
title: Infrastructure
expert Reports
to: Team
leader of the TA project Location: Kigali, Rwanda, with
regular travel to other regions in Rwanda Type
of contract: full-time,
fixed-term contract Contract
duration: 1
year, with possibility of renewal (local contract) Job
Level: senior
level |
Overview
Expertise France is the French agency for international
cooperation established in 2015. The agency develops and implements projects
that sustainably strengthen public policies in low- and middle-income countries
and focuses on four priority areas:
- Strengthening
health systems, social protection and employment;
- Democratic,
economic and financial governance;
- Stability
of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations and security;
- Combating
climate change and favouring sustainable urban development.
In these areas, Expertise France engineers and implements
capacity-building projects, mobilises technical expertise and acts as a project
coordinator, bringing together public expertise and private know-how. With an
annual business volume of 445 million euros in 2024 and over 400 projects in
145 countries, Expertise France’s activities are part of France’s international
cooperation policy and official development assistance.
Active since 2020 in Rwanda, Expertise France Rwanda
implements technical assistance projects, primarily funded by the European
Union, AFD and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The agency’s main areas
of intervention in Rwanda are:
- Health
- Education
and TVET
- Sustainable
development, climate and agriculture
- Digitalisation
Project description
Rwanda recognizes sport as a powerful catalyst for human
development and social transformation. Since the adoption of the Rwanda Sports
Development Policy in 2012, the government has affirmed its commitment to
promote mass participation, equitable access, and talent development in sport.
This commitment was further consolidated through the 2020 School Sports Policy,
which positioned sport as an integral part of the national education pathway,
encouraging health promotion as well as structured and inclusive opportunities
for talent to emerge from pre-primary through higher education.
However, this developing sector faces systemic challenges,
including insufficient number of adequate infrastructure, insufficiently
qualified technical staff, gender disparities, and limited access for learners
with disabilities which continue to hinder the development of a truly inclusive
sports ecosystem.
AFD supported the first phase of ISONGA programme
(2021–2024) with a €1.5 million grant, reaching 599 student-athletes (42%
girls) across 17 pilot schools. This phase delivered initial training, coaching
support, equipment, and coordination mechanisms.
In alignment with these ambitions, Isonga Phase 2 financed
through and loan and a grant of AFD, hold the core objective to
establish a sustainable, inclusive, and gender-responsive national school
sports system. This system aims to guarantee that all girls and boys,
regardless of their background, have equitable opportunities to access
high-quality sports activities as part of their educational journey. Thus, the
program seeks to strengthen their academic retention, nurture civic values, and
contribute to greater social cohesion and youth empowerment across Rwanda. The
phase 2 will also extend the geographic scope, and cover all the districts of
the country to expand the opportunities for the young Rwandan generation.
The second phase of ISONGA (2025–2029) aims to expand and
consolidate this school-based sports system in 42 schools nationwide. Expertise
France is mobilized to provide technical assistance to reinforce the MINISPORT
and notably its Single Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) capacity, enhance
multi-level coordination, and support the professionalization of a sustainable,
inclusive school sports ecosystem throughout the country. The objective of the
technical assistance mission is to ensure strategic, operational, and
institutional support to the Ministry of Sports’ SPIU for the effective
implementation of the ISONGA 2 program.
The role
The Infrastructure Expert will be embedded within
MINISPORTS/SPIU in Kigali and report to the Isonga 2 Technical Assistance
project Team Leader. As a technical advisor, he or she will strengthen the
quality and consistency of sport-infrastructure packages by supporting
standards, procurement documents, bid evaluation, early-works backstopping,
site-supervision protocols and maintenance planning while transferring know-how
to SPIU and partners.
He/she will work on a daily basis with the Infrastructure
Infrastructure Technician specialist of the SPIU notably.
Key Responsibilities
- Revise
and refine technical ToRs, BoQs and specifications for works tenders,
including framework agreements for sport field
construction/rehabilitation.
- Co-develop
and operationalize sport-specific infrastructure standards with
federations and local stakeholders (safety, accessibility, inclusion).
- Contribute
to bid evaluation: review technical proposals against specs/standards and
document quality, compliance and sustainability findings.
- Advise
on supplier/contractor selection, ensuring transparency, eligibility and
delivery capacity; prepare evaluation notes/recommendations.
- Provide
technical backstopping to SPIU during the first wave of works: QA/QC
arrangements, schedule and variation control, and budget integrity.
- Design
and roll out a site supervision toolkit (protocols, checklists,
progress-monitoring templates, reporting tools) and brief/train
SPIU/district focal points.
- Contribute
to the infrastructure maintenance plan, incl. KPIs and the use of
framework repair contracts and basic asset handover documentation.
Profile
Qualifications
Master’s in Civil Engineering/Architecture/Construction
Management (or equivalent); professional licensure an asset.
Professional experience
- 7+
years delivering public infrastructure covering design review, tendering,
early works supervision, handover and maintenance.
- Proven
drafting of technical ToRs/Specifications/BoQs and standardizing unit
quantities for multi-lot
procurements. - Bid
evaluation & supplier selection within public procurement frameworks;
auditable evaluation reports.
- Site
supervision backstopping: Quality Assurance /Quality Controll, progress
controls, risk/variation management, schedule and budget oversight.
- Maintenance
planning and basic asset/lifecycle management; use of framework agreements
for repairs.
- Coordination
with implementation unit (SPIU/ministries) and local actors;
- Experience
in education/sport facilities is a plus.
Skills
- Design
compliance and constructability reviews; value-for-money analysis;
- Quality
control, HSE/safeguarding, and inclusion/accessibility standards embedded
in designs;
- Clear,
buildable technical writing; concise technical notes and recommendations.
- Tools:
plan reading/AutoCAD, MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint), collaboration
platforms; contractor
performance KPIs/monitoring. - Perfect
command of Kinyarwanda and English; fluency in French is an asset.
Additional information
Desired start date: February 2026
Application deadline: December 15th 2025
Remuneration: competitive remuneration will be
offered according to Expertise France’s salary scale and the candidate’s
qualification and experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please apply on that link:
Please provide your CV and cover letter (no longer than 2
pages each), as well as three professional references with
contact details.
Candidates are invited to submit their application as soon
as possible.
Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates before the
application deadline.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND APPLY
Procurement Expert at Expertise France: (Deadline 14
December 2025)
Terms of Reference / Job Description
Procurement expert
Isonga 2 Technical assistance project
|
Job
title: Procurement
Expert Reports
to: Team
leader of the TA project Location: Kigali, Rwanda Type
of contract: part-time,
fixed-term contract Contract
duration: 1
year, with possibility of renewal (local contract) Job
Level: senior
level |
Overview
Expertise France is the French agency for international
cooperation established in 2015. The agency develops and implements projects
that sustainably strengthen public policies in low- and middle-income countries
and focuses on four priority areas:
- Strengthening
health systems, social protection and employment;
- Democratic,
economic and financial governance;
- Stability
of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations and security;
- Combating
climate change and favouring sustainable urban development.
In these areas, Expertise France engineers and implements
capacity-building projects, mobilises technical expertise and acts as a project
coordinator, bringing together public expertise and private know-how. With an
annual business volume of 445 million euros in 2024 and over 400 projects in
145 countries, Expertise France’s activities are part of France’s international
cooperation policy and official development assistance.
Active since 2020 in Rwanda, Expertise France Rwanda
implements technical assistance projects, primarily funded by the European
Union, AFD and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The agency’s main areas
of intervention in Rwanda are:
- Health
- Education
and TVET
- Sustainable
development, climate and agriculture
- Digitalisation
Project description
Rwanda recognizes sport as a powerful catalyst for human
development and social transformation. Since the adoption of the Rwanda Sports
Development Policy in 2012, the government has affirmed its commitment to
promote mass participation, equitable access, and talent development in sport.
This commitment was further consolidated through the 2020 School Sports Policy,
which positioned sport as an integral part of the national education pathway,
encouraging health promotion as well as structured and inclusive opportunities
for talent to emerge from pre-primary through higher education.
However, this developing sector faces systemic challenges,
including insufficient number of adequate infrastructure, insufficiently
qualified technical staff, gender disparities, and limited access for learners
with disabilities which continue to hinder the development of a truly inclusive
sports ecosystem.
AFD supported the first phase of ISONGA programme
(2021–2024) with a €1.5 million grant, reaching 599 student-athletes (42%
girls) across 17 pilot schools. This phase delivered initial training, coaching
support, equipment, and coordination mechanisms.
In alignment with these ambitions, Isonga Phase 2 financed
through and loan and a grant of AFD, hold the core objective to
establish a sustainable, inclusive, and gender-responsive national school
sports system. This system aims to guarantee that all girls and boys,
regardless of their background, have equitable opportunities to access
high-quality sports activities as part of their educational journey. Thus, the
program seeks to strengthen their academic retention, nurture civic values, and
contribute to greater social cohesion and youth empowerment across Rwanda. The
phase 2 will also extend the geographic scope, and cover all the districts of
the country to expand the opportunities for the young Rwandan generation.
The second phase of ISONGA (2025–2029) aims to expand and
consolidate this school-based sports system in 42 schools nationwide. Expertise
France is mobilized to provide technical assistance to reinforce the MINISPORT
and notably its Single Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) capacity, enhance
multi-level coordination, and support the professionalization of a sustainable,
inclusive school sports ecosystem throughout the country. The objective of the
technical assistance mission is to ensure strategic, operational, and
institutional support to the Ministry of Sports’ SPIU for the effective
implementation of the ISONGA 2 program.
The role
The Procurement Expert will be embedded within
MINISPORTS/SPIU and report to the Isonga 2 Technical Assistance project Team
Leader. The expert will support SPIU to prepare and run compliant, efficient
tenders for works, goods and related services, ensuring clear technical
documentation, transparent evaluation, appropriate contract structures
(including framework agreements), and practical monitoring tools—while building
SPIU’s capacities. The expert supports SPIU but can not act as contracting
authority. He/She ensure compliance with both Rwandan public procurement law
and AFD rules.
He/she will work on a daily basis with the procurement
officer of the SPIU notably.
Key Responsibilities
- Support
the SPIU Prepare complete tender dossiers (BoQs, technical specs,
evaluation criteria, submission templates) for infrastructure and
equipment, in line with Rwanda public procurement rules.
- Work
with infrastructure/sport experts to refine technical requirements and
standardize unit quantities across lots for cost-effective, comparable
bids.
- Support
bid evaluations (technical/financial), document compliance/quality
findings, and advise selection committees to ensure transparency and
alignment with project needs.
- Advise
on contract structuring (e.g., framework agreements, batch procurement)
and plan procurement timelines consistent with school calendars and
construction seasons.
- Establish
procurement monitoring tools (delivery status, supplier performance,
contract compliance) and provide reporting inputs for SPIU/donor
Profile
Qualifications
Master’s in Procurement, Public Administration, Law,
Engineering or related; professional procurement certification (e.g., CIPS) is
an asset.
Professional experience
- 7+
years in public-sector procurement delivering tenders for works, goods and
services (education/sport or similar social infrastructure desirable);
- Proven
tender dossier drafting (BoQs/specs, criteria, templates) and good
knowledge of Rwanda procurement regulations;
- Experience
in evaluation committees (technical & financial) and documenting
transparent, auditable selection recommendations;
- Practice
with multi-lot standardization and framework agreements to improve
efficiency over multi-year implementation.
- Setting
up procurement monitoring (supplier performance, contract compliance) and
producing inputs for donor reporting.
- Hands-on
capacity building with government teams (coaching, templates, on-the-job
support)
- Previous
experience of the French Development Agency (AFD) procurement procedures
would be an asset.
Skills
- Excellent
command of tender documentation, evaluation methods and public procurement
compliance;
- Ability
to translate technical inputs (infrastructure/sport) into clear,
comparable procurement packages;
- Strong
planning & contract structuring (frameworks, batches) and
risk-mitigation mindset.
- Practical
monitoring & reporting (dashboards, KPIs, supplier performance
tracking).
- Perfect
command of English and Kinyarwanda; fluency in French is an asset.
Additional information
Desired start date: February 2026
Application deadline: December 15th 2025
Remuneration: competitive remuneration will be
offered according to Expertise France’s salary scale and the candidate’s
qualification and experience.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please apply on that link:
Please provide your CV and cover letter (no longer than 2
pages each), as well as three professional references with
contact details.
Candidates are invited to submit their application as soon
as possible. Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates
before the application deadline.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND APPLY
CLICK
HERE TO JOIN AFROCAREERS.COM WHATSAPP CHANNEL
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