Career Guidance and Employability Specialist - CE job at University of Rwanda
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Vacancy title:
Career Guidance and Employability Specialist - CE

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Education, and Training , Category: Teachers & Education ]

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University of Rwanda

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, August 28 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Rwanda , Kigali, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, August 24 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
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

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Education/ Academic/ Teaching jobs in Rwanda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Monday, August 28 2023
Duty Station: Kigali
Posted: 23-08-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 23-08-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 23-08-2066
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