Smart Africa Project Officer for the Smart Africa Digital Academy 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 is 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.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Smart Africa Secretariat would like to recruit a

Project Officer (PO) for the SADA to manage, coordinate and implement activities relating to the Smart Africa digital Academy in selected Smart Africa Member Countries while ensuring effective linkages to the Smart Africa core objectives and activities.

Responsibilities Include:

• Identify capacity-building needs for governments, businesses, and digital citizens;

• Oversee In-Country Implementation of SADA and provide technical inputs to address identified gaps and bottlenecks;

• Support the development of training plans and implementation of training within the context of SADA;

• Provide technical support in reviewing and designing training plans and schedules;

• Providing input in the development of training modules based on the identified training needs;

• Develop and manage the trainers and trainee's database for monitoring and on-demand queries;

• Implement and Coordinate a system to monitor and support the recruitment and nomination of trainees for the various training programmes across all member states to ensure adequate representation and coverage;

• Organize Training workshops and Training of Trainers as required by SADA’s implementation;

• Oversee the training undertaken by contracted consulting firms across the continent;

• Establishing close collaboration and partnerships with Governments, the Private sector, Non-Government organizations, Academia, and other professional associations, to ensure good coordination, collaboration, and timely conduct of SADA’s implementation activities;

• Facilitate the monthly review of SADA’s implementation activities;

• Document routine progress, success, and the implementation process;

• Provide analytical learnings from the implementation to ease scale-up of activities;

• 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:

• Any other assignments or projects, which will be assigned from time to time by the leadership of Smart Africa

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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