Smart Africa Project Officer for the Smart Africa Digital Academy and Scholarship Fund Jobs in Rwanda
Smart Africa Project Officer for the Smart Africa Digital Academy and Scholarship Fund Jobs in Rwanda
About the Smart Africa Digital Academy
Over the past decade, Africa has made great strides in enrolling children in school, with some countries providing free primary education for the first nine years.
Despite this achievement, the average Human Capital Index (HCI) falls below the average, with one of the highest being 52 on a scale of 100, education being a major determinant factor.
With a population estimated to approximately 1.3bn people who are majorly youthful, ensuring quality jobs to leverage on the continent’s demographic opportunity is set to be one of Africa’s game-changer. An estimated 15 to 20 million increasingly well-educated young people will join the African workforce every year for the next three decades.
The Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) is the delivery vehicle of the Smart Africa capacity building and skills development activities across the various digital skills spectrum.
It is a pan-African dynamic learning ecosystem in which African citizens of all ages and social classes can gain or improve their digital skills, gain qualifications, meet the emerging talent needs of employers, industry or be self-reliant.
The birth of SADA was driven by the need to meet a genuine need for sustainable jobs driven by the fact that 15% of the world’s working-age population are expected to be from Africa by 2030.
The governments of the Smart Africa Member States recognize the urgency to drive inclusion and economic growth through the development and adoption of strategies for education and skills development to build this required future workforce.
Digital skills development at all levels – from basic to competency-based – is required to allow the uptake of new technologies in the economy, increase productivity, support growth while avoiding unnecessary disruptions in the labor market and society.
One of the SADA’s initiatives to contributing to the knowledge sharing and nation-building initiatives that will enhance the competitiveness of the African continent is “The Smart Africa Scholarship fund”.
Established in 2015, to empower talented students from the Member States with the required critical skills in the ICT sector - the fund has raised one million six hundred thousand dollars (USD 1.6mn) from partners and Member States such as: (ITU), South Sudan, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Mali, Gabon, Kenya, and Côte d'Ivoire. Eighty-two (82) talented African students have been trained in top universities and centers of excellence across Africa.
The training addressed the shortage of advanced critical skills such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Data privacy, and security at the
level of Master degrees.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Smart Africa Secretariat would like to recruit a Project Officer (PO) for the SADA to manage and implement activities relating to the Smart Africa digital Academy in Rwanda and the Smart Africa Scholarship Fund 2021 in the continent.
Responsibilities Include:
Support the development of training plans and implementation of trainings within the context of SADA.
Provide technical support in reviewing and designing training schedules for centrally held trainings.
Coordinate the implementation of the Smart Africa Scholarship Fund project;
Support the setup of robust governance to oversee its successful implementation;
Define the selection criteria and recruitment of Smart Africa Centers of Excellence;
Coordination with identified partners (Smart Africa Centers of Excellence) to ensure the timely delivery of expected outputs and reports;
Supporting the mobilization of funds required by the Smart Africa Scholarship program;
Coordinating required logistics from the selection process through assignments in the different institutions.
Document routine progress, success, and the implementation process of SADA.
Provide analytical learnings from the implementation to ease scale-up of activities
Providing periodical reports on the progress of project activities and issues arising;
Other Responsibilities will Include:
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 ICT, Information Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field with recognized experience of at least 2 years; or
A Masters’ Degree in Information Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or other related fields
General Experience and Skills:
A minimum of five years of experience in ICT capacity development area at a national or regional level;
Familiarity with digital strategy approaches, national ICT strategies, and training development standards;
Good experience in fundraising and creative writing;
Proven experience in project management practices with the ability to provide inputs in a team build-up, work plans development, budgets, and expenditures;
Good interpersonal skills with experience in networking with partners at all levels;
Experience in results-based management, project monitoring, reporting, and evaluation;
Demonstrated written, analytical, presentation, reporting, and computing skills and familiarity with modern communication systems (internet, the world wide web, email, and related);
Ability to work in a team;
Strong competence in the use of standard software productivity tools (such as Microsoft Office Suite or others).
Languages
Excellent Knowledge and Fluency in French and English.
Good working knowledge of another language will be an added advantage.
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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