Venture Supervisor needed on the Worldwide Labour Group

The ILO is trying to recruit a Venture Supervisor to be based mostly in Kigali (Rwanda) for a brand new improvement cooperation challenge, titled “Boosting First rate Jobs and Enhancing Expertise for Youth in Rwanda’s Digital Financial system.”

Rwanda’s Imaginative and prescient 2050 formulates the ambition of absolutely creating the nation’s financial and social potential. The blueprint acknowledges the important significance of the Rwandan “demographic dividend” as younger folks (16 to 30 years previous) make up 27 per cent of the whole inhabitants. Nonetheless, younger folks face a extreme lack of first rate and productive employment. Many youth in Rwanda are un- and under-employment, with younger girls being significantly over-represented. On the similar time, Rwanda has extremely prioritized digitalization as means to rework Rwanda’s socio-economic improvement. The digitalization of the Rwandan economic system is conceived as a cross-cutting enabler for the expansion of different sectors of the economic system but in addition and a supply for the creation of first rate and productive jobs inside and past the ICT sector.

The challenge “Boosting First rate Jobs and Enhancing Expertise for Youth in Rwanda’s Digital Financial system” (the Venture) will help Rwanda’s structural transformation and contribute to a simply transition in direction of a digital economic system. It’s financially supported by the Authorities of Luxembourg with an implementation interval of 4 years. Its predominant purpose is to allow extra younger ladies and men in Rwanda to entry first rate jobs in Rwanda’s digital economic system, specializing in the youth between the age brackets of 16 and 30 years from Secondary Cities in addition to Kigali.

The three predominant parts of the challenge are:

• Selling job creation and entrepreneurship alternatives within the digital economic system, together with by supporting employment coverage improvement and implementing interventions that stimulate enterprise development.
• Enhance digital abilities of younger ladies and men, together with by supporting Technical and Vocational Training and Coaching establishments in creating and implementing digital abilities trainings.
• Facilitate younger folks’s transition to first rate work within the digital economic system, together with by digital internship and profession steerage schemes in addition to strengthening on-line job search platforms.

The challenge thus takes a systemic strategy focussing on labour demand, labour provide and labour mediation. Implementation will likely be based mostly on proof and analysis and can emphasise public-private partnerships, collaboration with nationwide and sectoral stakeholders and improvement companions and involvement of younger folks .

Inside the coverage and procedural necessities established by the ILO and the challenge, the Venture Supervisor will likely be answerable for the day-to-day administration of the challenge implementation and supply technical advisory providers to ILO constituents and different key implementing companions and stakeholders concerned in challenge implementation . He/she’s going to be sure that the targets acknowledged within the challenge doc are attained throughout the acknowledged timeframe and price range and guarantee compliance with the ILO’s monetary and working procedures. The incumbent will promote ILO insurance policies within the challenge associated technical areas.

Reporting Traces: 

The Venture Supervisor will work below the direct supervision of the ILO Director of the Nation Workplace for the United Republic of Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, based mostly in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and can obtain technical help from technical specialists based mostly within the ILO Regional Workplace for Africa and within the First rate Work Group for Jap and Southern Africa. Administrative help will likely be offered by the Nation Workplace in Dar es Salaam.

Each day actions will likely be carried out by a challenge staff based mostly on the ILO Venture Workplace in Kigali, Rwanda. The Venture Supervisor will supervise a Nationwide Venture Officer, a Finance and Administrative Assistant and a Driver in addition to any worldwide and native consultants that could be contracted in the course of the challenge.

Venture administration:

• Guarantee efficient implementation of the challenge by well timed provision of inputs, well timed and environment friendly supply of outputs, and planning, management, monitoring and analysis of the challenge actions, in conformity with ILO insurance policies and challenge methods, and in accordance with ILO programming pointers and nation/motion applications, and administrative and monetary procedures in session with the accountable discipline workplace.
• Liable for the efficient administration of funds assigned to the challenge.
• Handle effectively the challenge staff, together with efficiency, and expertise administration points, taking into consideration gender equality and non-discrimination.
• Coordinate the implementation of all outcomes of the challenge and search synergies the place relevant, particularly in view of the holistic strategy of the challenge.

Technical management and recommendation:

• Present technical experience and recommendation to related authorities businesses and different key establishments, in implementing the challenge, and coordinate the challenge’s Technical Working Group with a view to selling the formulation of inclusive and gender-responsive insurance policies and programmes, and their impactful implementation and monitoring to make sure equitable outcomes.
• In shut cooperation with ILO Technical Specialists, present technical experience to develop and implement gender-responsive interventions throughout all three main parts of the initiatives (enterprise improvement, abilities improvement and labour market intermediation) that reply to the evolving wants of constituents in addition to younger ladies and men.

Advocacy, networking and partnership:

•  Develop and strengthen relationships to cooperate and coordinate with the involved governments, ministries and the employers’ and employees’ organizations, the goal teams and the donor, within the planning and implementation of actions below the challenge.
• Liaise UN organisation and different improvement companions to hunt synergies and co-implement challenge actions the place relevant, together with to extend the challenge’s visibility and facilitate the scaling-up of the challenge’s interventions.
• Undertake useful resource mobilization actions with the multi-lateral and bilateral donor group for the event of future actions linked to the challenge in coordination with the accountable Nation Workplace, technical specialists and related HQ departments.
• Develop and disseminate data supplies on challenge in shut collaboration with related technical specialists protecting ILO technical actions coated by the challenge, put together periodic and advert hoc reviews on the standing of program planning and implementation, and set up coordination with involved ILO departments and applications.
• Some other duties requested by the supervisor.

Superior college diploma in economics, administration, social science or a associated discipline. A primary-level college diploma (Bachelor’s or equal) in one of many afore-mentioned fields or different related discipline with a further two years of related expertise, along with the expertise acknowledged beneath, will likely be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.

Seven years’ expertise within the administration of technical cooperation actions, together with on the worldwide degree.

Expertise and experience within the fields of employment coverage and enterprise improvement within the digital economic system is taken into account and asset. Expertise in abilities and employability is taken into account a bonus. Expertise in implementing youth employment initiatives is taken into account an asset. Familiarity with working with officers of ministries (reminiscent of labour, schooling, innovation/ITC) in addition to employee’s and employer’s organisation could be a bonus.

Glorious command of English. Working data of French is taken into account an asset.

• Confirmed means to take possession of all duties, to behave with integrity and transparency by sustaining social, moral and organisational norms, and to satisfy all commitments throughout the prescribed time, price and high quality requirements;
• Capacity to develop clear strategic targets per the challenge/programme’s targets, and to design and synthesise methods for programme improvement;
• Glorious administration and management abilities, means to work successfully in a staff and wonderful interpersonal abilities;
• Capacity to formulate new ideas and methodologies, and to synthesise analysis and attain empirically based mostly conclusions on associated topics by understanding each the qualitative and quantitative approaches in social science analysis;
• Capacity to develop coaching supplies, different programs of motion, challenge proposals, coverage, procedural issues and current them at high-level conferences;
• Capacity to advertise data sharing and studying tradition within the workplace, and to focus and information others to satisfy targets at particular person and group degree;
• Robust written and verbal communication abilities, together with the flexibility to jot down correct reviews and to construct networks to acquire cooperation with companions;
• Capacity to plan and help the event of particular person’s abilities and talents for a simpler fulfilment of present or future job/function duties;
• Develop self-awareness and present empathy by demonstrating the qualities, traits, or attributes that contribute to the flexibility to successfully relate to and determine with others.
• Capacity to work in a multicultural atmosphere and to exhibit gender-responsive, non- discriminatory and inclusive behaviour and attitudes.