Smart Africa Project Support Assistant for the Smart Africa Digital Academy Jobs in Rwanda
Smart Africa Project Support Assistant 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 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 20303.
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 Support Assistant to support the Smart Africa Digital Academy implementation in a marketing and communications professional's capacity.
Responsibilities include:
Develop, support, and promote SADA’s goals, including message development, social media content creation,
and media outreach.
Develop a corporate identity for SADA under Smart Africa.
Develop and disseminate public relations materials that increase SADA and Smart Africa’s visibility among stakeholders and lawmakers.
Build and maintain relationships with journalists, bloggers, investors, and customer audiences that will help advance SADA and Smart Africa’s work.
Identify target audiences and create strategies to engage through effective communications.
Ensure digital marketing content aligns with our brand's identity and message, and assist with marketing campaigns as needed
Work closely with leaders and executives to develop and strengthen employee engagement activities
Using appropriate techniques and tools to create a wide range of graphics, videos, and layouts for SADA’s activities, logos, websites, banners, flyers, social media posts, Certificates, emails communications (HTML), and related;
Work closely with the solution architect for SADA to ensure brand alignment.
Project support activities including input into project planning and documentation; assistance with implementation resources, monitoring, and reporting on project progress
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 and Professional experience:
A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field
A minimum of three (3) years of experience in communications strategy development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge of digital marketing tactics, such as SEO and email marketing
Excellent critical thinking skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and solve problems quickly and effectively
Experience working in customer relations preferred
French and English would be an advantage
Ability to understand training cycles (needs assessments, planning, development, coordination, and monitoring and evaluation);
Proficiency in MS Office;
General Experience and Skills
Good interpersonal skills with experience in networking with partners at all levels;
Creativity and problem-solving abilities
Ability to work in a team;
Strong communication skills
Languages
Excellent Knowledge and Fluency in French or English.
Good working knowledge in 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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