Smart Africa Associate Project Manager, Smart Africa Digital Academy Jobs in Rwanda
Smart Africa Associate Project Manager, Smart Africa Digital Academy Jobs in Rwanda
Position DescriptionThe Smart Africa Secretariat would like to recruit an Associate Project manager (APM) in charge of SADA to lead, coordinate and implement the defined activities across Smart Africa Member States while ensuring effective linkages to the Smart Africa core objectives and activities.
More precisely, the APM will define and execute the digital capacity-building strategies and initiatives that provide digital skills capacity building. The initiatives will empower Children, Youth, the General public, and Policymakers with the required skills and knowledge to develop harmonized policies for a successful digital transformation of the continent. These will ensure that citizens remain digitally-skilled and digitally-engaged, and therefore, take a leading role in providing digital skills and digital citizenship development.
The primary duties of the Associate Project Manager will include:
Preparing an annual national Work Plan for submission to the Head of division.
Provide Strategic insights and drive the efficient implementation of SADA
Facilitate the development and implementation of the Digital competency, Digital Skills Assessment, and Digital Content Frameworks for all SADA concept levels.
Facilitate the development of the SADA platform.
Support the In-Country Implementation of SADA
Coordinate the research and mapping of digital skills across the African member states.
Coordinate the development of training content and annual program for the capacity building activities under SADA.
Establish and coordinate the communities of practice to share knowledge on policy-related issues related to Digital Transformation initiatives.
Supervise and implement Smart Africa projects/initiatives activities, providing proposals and plans (including work plans, procurement, consultancies, recruitment, logistics, budgeting, and disbursements).
Establishing close collaboration, working arrangements, partnerships with Governments, the Private sector, Non-Government organizations, Academia, and other professional associations, to ensure good coordination, collaboration, and timely conduct of Smart Africa activities.
Liaising with government and other key stakeholders to promote enabling ICT policy and regulatory environment that would facilitate the implementation of initiatives under his/her supervision;
Following through mobilization of funds /resources from development partners and institutions to complete the financing of the Smart Africa projects, especially
those under his/her supervision;
Providing periodical reports on the progress of project activities and issues arising;
Participating in regional project meetings and workshops and other activities as required;
Other responsibilities will include:
Prepare the terms of reference of consultants/institutions that will undertake assignments following the approved annual Work Plan;
Monitor and supervise the work of consultants, institutions, government staff, and other partners, facilitate meetings and, as far as possible, ensure the timely and responsive delivery of outputs and reports;
Any other assignments or projects, which will be assigned from time to time by the leadership of Smart Africa;
Key Qualifications
Education
A Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Humanities, Information Technology, or a related field with recognized experience of at least 5 years of technical expertise; or
A Masters’ Degree in Humanities or Education or Human Capital Development
A Project Management Certification from a recognized International Project Management Certification Body such as the Project Management Institute (PMI) is an added advantage.
Excellent Knowledge and Fluency in French or English.
Good working knowledge of another language will be an advantage.
General Experience and Skills
Strong management skills including the ability to provide strategic guidance, technical oversight, build strong teams, mentor staff, develop work plans, and manage budgets and project expenditures;
Relevant experience in the field of Education and capacity building, fundraising will be an added advantage.
Good interpersonal skills with experience in networking with partners at all levels (Ministry, development partners, private sector, NGOs, and Academia);
Experience working in project coordination;
Demonstrated written, analytical, presentation, reporting, and computing skills and familiarity with modern communication systems (internet, the world wide web, email, etc);
Demonstrated experience with projects of the same nature would constitute an added advantage;
Good knowledge of matters related to adult learning frameworks;
Ability to work in a team;
Strong competence in the use of standard software productivity tools (such as Microsoft Office Suite or others).
How to Apply
All the above should be sent to the following email address: to hr@smartafrica.org not later than 11th January 2021 5:00 pm Kigali time.
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