Project Coordinator Smallholder

Do you have experience in project coordination and do you want to work in an impact-driven and dynamic environment that supports small-scale farmers to become more resilient?  

Acorn, part of Rabobank, is combatting climate change in a transparent, honest and traceable way by helping farmers in Latin America, Asia and Africa make the transition to “agroforestry”, a regenerative agricultural practice whereby farmers plant trees around or among their main crops. Acorn already helps more than 200,000 farmers to improve their livelihoods. But Acorn is aiming for millions.

In order to help facilitate scaling-up Acorn’s local partners,  a separate financing entity outside of Rabobank has been established: Smallholder Agroforestry Finance BV (SAF). SAF is a purpose-driven enterprise that offers innovative financing solutions to support smallholder farmers and combat climate change. The purpose of SAF is to provide funding and technical assistance to organizations (e.g. NGO’s and cooperatives) working with smallholder farmers in order to start agroforestry projects.  In doing so, SAF contributes to improving the livelihoods of these small-scale farmers as well as increase biodiversity and improve food security. In addition, the trees planted sequester CO2 from the atmosphere.
 

You and your job  

As a Project Coordinator you will be working with a highly committed and enthusiastic team.

You will ensure that the projects are administered correctly, you coordinate and provide management and project information. You take care of entering and updating project partners in the CRM system. As a result, maximum efficiency and effectiveness are achieved, so that we can serve our partners in an optimal way.

Key responsibilities  

• Closely work together with the Investment Managers to prepare credit applications
• Gather and check the correctness, completeness and reliability of documents (e.g. business cases for the agroforestry projects)
• Monitor ongoing projects to check if they meet the agreed objectives (including impact objectives).Fully-fledged point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure correct and timely loan administrationAll-round support; Each partner has its own operations and characteristics.

Facts & Figures  

• Location is Utrecht and/or Amsterdam
• 32- 36 hours per week
• The team consists of 6 colleagues and will eventually grow to 10 colleagues
• Employment contract with Rabobank

Together we achieve more than alone  

We believe in the power of making a difference. Bringing together people’s differences is what makes us better. So, we are curious about what you can bring to SAF.  

You and your talent  

Customer focus, good communication skills, accuracy, attention to detail and the ability to work independently are essential for the Project Coordinator position. In addition, it’s important that you recognise yourself in the checklist below:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-5 years’ experience in a mid-office or project coordinating position
• Strong interest and affinity with (impact) finance, lending, farmers and sustainability
• Excellent command of the English language; other languages can be an advantage
• Proactive, culturally sensitive and results-oriented
• Team player, able to set priorities and help colleagues out if and when required
• Inventive thinking is required as well as one's own professional judgment

This is what we offer you  

• up to € 5.024,- gross per month (scale 8);
• a thirteenth month and holiday pay;
• an extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out;
• a personal development budget for training and educational opportunities.

This is a selection of the terms of for a Project Coordinator at SAF , based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all our terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment  

You and the job application process  

Interested? Interested? Then respond to the vacancy for Project Coordinator at SAF before February 12th :

• Any questions about the job content? Contact : Ineke Keers, Director Investments, via Ineke.Keers@Rabobank.com.
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Jessy Cornelissen, Recruiter via Jessy.Cornelissen@rabobank.nl.
• We will hold the interviews through a video call or in person at our office in Utrecht. 
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq . 
• A security check is part of the process. 
• We respect your privacy . 

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