Phrases of Reference
Recruitment
- Place: Mission assistant, Good Africa Digital Academy – DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1
- Length: Fastened Time period, renewable
- Location: Kigali, Rwanda (versatile)
- Deadline: 31 December,2023 at 5:00 PM Kigali (GMT+2) time
1. Context and Background
Africa is reshaping its narrative from one in all poverty to progress, showcasing spectacular financial development, technological innovation, and a younger inhabitants. Nonetheless, digital transformation faces obstacles equivalent to restricted entry, inadequate investments, and a digital divide, which additionally provide alternatives for development by way of higher accessibility, effectivity, and job creation
The Good Africa Alliance, established by way of the Good Africa Manifesto, is a collaborative effort amongst African nations, the African Union, the Financial Fee for Africa, the African Improvement Financial institution, the World Financial institution, the Worldwide Telecommunications Union, the non-public sector, and educational and analysis establishments. This initiative, pushed by African Heads of State and Authorities, goals to propel sustainable socio-economic growth throughout the continent by leveraging Data and Communications Applied sciences (ICT) to transition Africa right into a knowledge-based financial system. Initially endorsed by African leaders in 2014, the Good Africa Manifesto has since garnered the assist of 39 African international locations, representing over one billion inhabitants, with the purpose of inserting ICT on the core of each nationwide and continental socio-economic growth efforts. This includes rising ICT entry, enhancing transparency, effectivity, and openness by way of ICT adoption, fostering superior telecommunication applied sciences, empowering the non-public sector, and using ICT for sustainable growth.
The Alliance promotes digital transformation by constructing digital infrastructure, supporting entrepreneurship, fostering innovation, creating human capital, driving digitization, and advocating the event of insurance policies and laws that assist the expansion of the digital financial system and digital applied sciences. Recognising the necessity for robust capability constructing efforts to attain AU’s objectives for digital transformation, the Alliance established the Good Africa Digital Academy (SADA), adopted in the course of the Good Africa Alliance ninth Board Assembly Decision 5, as a automobile to implement its capability constructing and expertise growth actions throughout member states, by way of the institution of nationwide digital academies.
SADA ensures that policymakers, enterprise leaders, and the broader African inhabitants develop the digital expertise and data essential to take part within the digital financial system and reap the benefits of new alternatives. SADA acknowledged the significance of robust insurance policies and laws and the necessity to equip policymakers and regulators to design and implement efficient digital insurance policies and laws. By means of collaborative efforts with the World Financial institution and GIZ, SADA has, in its part 1, skilled over 8000 beneficiaries, out of which over 5000 are Africa’s Coverage and Choice makers. SADA has additionally carried out Nationwide Digital Academies throughout 12 African international locations.
Go to https://sada.smartafrica.org/ for extra details about the Good Africa Digital Academy
2. Digital Transformation for Africa/ Western Africa Regional Digital Integration Program (DTfA/ WARDIP) SOP-1
The DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1 is a regional venture with financing from the Worldwide Improvement Asociaton (IDA) overlaying two continental entities, AU and Good Africa, one REC, ECOWAS and 4 international locations, The Gambia, Guinea. Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania. The DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1 goals to extend broadband entry and utilization in collaborating international locations and to advance the mixing of digital markets in Western Africa.
The venture is designed across the three distinct however interconnected layers of the SDM framework. The three market layers are (i) a single connectivity market, eradicating limitations to regional telecom infrastructure and companies deployment; (ii) a single knowledge market, enabling the safe alternate and processing of information throughout borders; and (iii) a single on-line market, permitting the entry and supply of private and non-private companies on-line and digital commerce throughout borders.
On the continental stage the venture will assist AU´s strategic imaginative and prescient of making an SDM in Africa by 2030 by way of the event of acceptable insurance policies and laws for coordinated digital transformation in Africa. A key ingredient shall be a complete coaching program open to coverage and choice makers in addition to regulators from all international locations in Africa to be carried out by Good Africa by way of its Good Africa Digital Academy (SADA). The coaching will be sure that contributors are up to date on digitalization and tackle the brand new insurance policies and laws underpinning single digital markets, with concentrate on agile regulation, knowledge financial system and inexperienced digital. This can even foster frequent data, competencies, and peer-learning to design and implement digital insurance policies and laws.
3. The Good Africa Digital Academy for Coverage and Choice makers (SADA-CBDM) – A Subcomponent of the WARDIP-SOP 1
The subcomponent of the WARDIP-SOP1 venture to be carried out by Good Africa goals at a rapid-scaling of the Good Africa Digital Academy (SADA) program at each regional and continental ranges by leveraging on the prevailing SADA -CBDM implementation, AReg4DT program, and creating a replicable implementation mannequin that caters for the precise wants and the regional context. The general intention is to ascertain a brand new era of policymakers and regulators throughout Africa, who’re individually educated on the way to harness the potential of inexperienced and inclusive digital transformation by way of new approaches to coverage and regulation, and who collectively contribute to the institution of a Single Digital Market in Africa. With this intention, the scale-up will attain 30,000 distinctive policymakers and choice makers from all international locations in Africa, with a core group of 5,000 being skilled in individual in direction of making a secure, inclusive and sustainable single digital marketplace for Africa, with a participation stage of females at 40%. The usage of self-paced studying and train-the-trainer approaches are each geared toward additional enhancing the attain of this system to propagate new data and new practices throughout all the ecosystem together with the non-public sector, academia and in some instances most people.
In step with the imaginative and prescient of Good Africa, this system goals to supply foundational data and competencies for the present and future digital coverage makers to design, draft and implement digital insurance policies and laws required to advertise a vibrant (i.e, aggressive), secure, inclusive and sustainable (i.e., reasonably priced and inexperienced) digital transformation that may, in flip, foster the creation of a secured Single Digital Market in Africa with concentrate on Agile regulation, the info financial system and inexperienced digital.
SADA invitations suitably certified people to point their curiosity within the implementation of the SADA element of the WARDIP-SOP1, as Mission Assistant.
4. Duties and Obligations
The Mission Assistant will assist the venture supervisor SADA, and the Mission Implementation staff with coordination and administrative duties to make sure a easy, efficient and well timed implementation of the SADA subcomponent, of the DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1 venture, in alignment with the present SADA Implementation.
Due to this fact, the Mission Assistant can have the next key tasks:
A. Mission coordination Help:
- Present Help in coordination of the completely different trainings to be carried out, in collaboration with the Mission Supervisor, Regional coordinators and Coaching supply facilitators
- Help in Creating instruments to supply assist in following up on the progress and motion gadgets essential for venture progress
- Present Help in monitoring milestones and deliverables to contribute to efficient venture planning
- Present assist within the coordination of conferences with venture stakeholders,
- Collaborate with inside and exterior stakeholders to make sure efficient communication and coordination.
B. Technical and administrative:
- Making certain correct documentation of all actions and conferences: equivalent to idea notes, studies, assembly minutes, publish workshop surveys, checklist of beneficiaries, and many others.
- Help in drafting administrative and technical paperwork to maintain our stakeholders knowledgeable (memos, standing updates, letters, phrases of references, and many others)
- Guarantee knowledge base administration of beneficiaries and general coaching statistics
C. Reporting:
- Help the venture supervisor in getting ready common venture updates by way of knowledge for reporting functions and assist the Mission Supervisor in presenting findings.
- Help within the growth of standard reporting and different venture deliverables, in accordance with the venture’s necessities
D. Monitoring and Analysis (M&E) Help:
- Help within the efficient software of standardized M&E instruments for knowledge assortment, high quality monitoring, and evaluation.
- Present assist in guaranteeing efficient common M&E actions
E. Logistics and Occasion Administration Help:
- Present assist in logistics administration and coordination for venture actions and occasions (Occasions, workshops, and coaching classes)
- Help to coordinate journey preparations for venture staff members, trainers, and contributors.
- Be certain that all logistical necessities for venture actions are met.
F. Communications and stakeholders’ engagement:
- Facilitate communication amongst staff members and supply assist with liaising with different stakeholders
- Help in sustaining relationships with venture companions, trainers, and contributors throughout classes and actions.
G. Others:
- Another duties as assigned by the Supervisor
5. Place necessities
A. Schooling
- A bachelor’s diploma within the discipline of Schooling, Enterprise Administration, Enterprise Administration Pc Science
- A Mission/Program Administration Certificates with requisite expertise shall be an added worth
B. Expertise
- Three (3) years’ expertise in a junior position as a venture staff on digital growth initiatives;
- Expertise in administrative help
- Understanding of digital expertise packages in Africa.
C. Information/Expertise required
- Familiarity with workplace Software program (Microsoft, groups, and many others.)
- Comfy utilizing digital instruments and platforms for administrative duties.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Workplace Suite and different related software program
- Group and Planning Expertise
- Downside-solving expertise
- Proof studying and a spotlight to element
- Effectively-developed Interpersonal Expertise
- Wonderful written and verbal English and French communication expertise
- Reporting expertise
- Self-starter, versatile and might work independently.
- Group spirit, respect for range and confidentiality.
- Be adaptable to altering venture necessities and prepared to tackle further tasks as wanted
- Understanding and appreciation of the cultural range throughout African international locations.
D. Length of the Project
The appointment is anticipated to have a period of three (3) years renewable topic to funds availability and efficiency
E. Reporting
The Mission Assistant will report back to the Mission Supervisor for Good Africa Digital Academy – DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1
F. Location
Kigali, Rwanda.
G. Utility Directions
Candidates ought to ship the next paperwork to the next e mail tackle: hr@smartafrica.org, with point out of “Mission Assistant – Good Africa Digital Academy – DTfA/ WARDIP SOP-1” within the topic line:
- An in depth CV
- A one-page cowl letter with a motivation assertion in relation to the tasks and necessities for this place.
NB :
- Incomplete purposes won’t be thought-about.
- We encourage certified candidates, with a ardour for advancing digital expertise and coverage growth in Africa, to use and contribute to the institution of a Single Digital Market within the area.
The deadline for submitting purposes is 31 December,2023 at 5:00 PM Kigali (GMT+2) time.
Solely chosen candidates for interview shall be contacted.
Any late software shall be robotically rejected.
We look ahead to receiving your purposes!!!