Career Guidance and Employability Specialist – CE Under Statute at UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA:Deadline: Aug 29, 2023

Job Description

Coordinating the identifying of graduate employability rate.

 Conduct survey on employment, underemployment and disguised unemployment of UR grandaunts.

 Develop, maintain and update regularly the employability database.

 Search and propose tools and software that can easily identify students potential capabilities related to employability

Providing students and graduates with personal transferable skills as well as generic skills

 Organize and coordinate trainings related to generic skills to students and graduates

 Assess generic skill gap vis-a-vis existing labour market base and adopt the appropriate measures leading to long-term solution.

Creating strong awareness of employability services

 Provide orientation on Careers and Employability Services of new and continuing students.

 Liaise with Deans of Schools to ensuring that Careers and Employability Services are imbedded in all programs.

 Harmonize the collaboration of the schools and network of alumni networks and industry.

 Establish and run campus information center and ensure regular update of units, department information are represented.

 Create mechanisms to outreach secondary schools to share basic entry requirement and general information regarding offered programs

To promote effective implementation of careers and employability services

 To oversee and spearhead quality and timely service delivery to students and staff and the general community.

 To coordinate the Careers and employability service policy and procedure formulation, validation and development.

 To oversee the process of reviewing and validating all programs related to careers and employability services for approval.

 To analyze, suggest and develop and/or regularly updated careers and employability services best practices that suits the trends of labor market locally and in the region.

Oversee and coordinate students guild developmental and skills enhancement programs

 Advise, guild and endorse the projects and policies of the guild council and its affiliated associations and societies on behalf of the college and university management.

 Provide all students associations and societies with relevant skills development trainings

 To inspire and orient students and their leadership in Volunteering services

 Create and empower students Peer mentorship

Develop and improve Industrial relations for skills advancement

 To coordinate and bring on board schools and their relevant industries into a common workshop to validate and update programs offered in line with Labour market need and also advise industry on new innovation

 Schedule visits by companies’ representatives for students to learn employment prospects, and employment requirements and opportunities.

 Assist students in job placements and have a good relationship with stakeholders.

 To create favorable environment for smooth running of capacity building MoUs that already exist between UR and industries and develop mechanisms to increase more collaboration even with new partners

 To create locally, regional and international interuniversity careers and employability relations and benchmarks to improve

Coordinate and manage career meetings, workshops and events

 Organize and coordinate annual careers and innovation open week; talent night;

 Organize and/or attend meetings and workshops, conferences, seminars with different stakeholders both from industry and university partners

Organize, maintain and operate the career office

 Oversee and coordinate students’ guidance and counselling services

 Supervise and appraise employees’ performance under his jurisdiction

 Represent the directorate in university meetings, industries and community

Coordinate and manage staff capacity development plan for the directorate.

 Assess, propose and communicate staff skills gaps that require trainings

 Develop a departmental skills development plan

 Manage the skills development plan effectively.

Working Experience

Masters degree holder: 2 years working experience

Bachelors degree holder: 3 years working experience

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management

3 Years of relevant experience

Masters in Management

3 Years of relevant experience

Masters in Business Administration

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Communication

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Communication

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management

2 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Development Studies

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Education

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Education

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Entrepreneurship

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in International Business

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in International Business

3 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing

2 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration

2 Years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling

2 Years of relevant experience

Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counselling

3 Years of relevant experience

Competency and Key Technical Skills

Integrity

Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.

Inclusiveness

Accountability

Communication

Teamwork

Client/citizen focus

Professionalism

Commitment to continuous learning

High standards of professional ethics and Secrecy

Efficient, effective and economic use of resources

Responsive, prompt, effective, impartial and equitable provision of services

Devotion and serving public interest

Accountability for administrative decisions

Transparency and provision to the public of timely and accurate information

Decency and integrity

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