Vacancy Announcement
Artificial Intelligence Skills and Ecosystem Advisor for The project ‘FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for all’
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development; Good Governance; Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development; Digital Transformation and Digital Economy; and regional projects in the Great Lakes Region.
“FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All” is a global initiative of the German Development Cooperation. It strives for a more open, inclusive, and sustainable approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the international level. Its principal objective is to assist selected partner countries in developing their AI ecosystems for the development of local AI solutions. These local AI solutions can then help to foster sustainable human and economic development. To achieve this, the initiative is working together with six partner countries: Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and India. To lay the foundations for developing local AI, the initiative pursues the following three goals:
- Strengthen Local Skills and Knowledge in AI – Capacity Building;
- Remove Barriers of Entry to Developing AI – Access to Training Data and AI Technologies for Local Innovation and development of AI use cases;
- Develop AI Policy Frameworks – Ethical AI, Data Protection and Privacy
In Rwanda, FAIR Forward is hosted under the umbrella of the GIZ Digital Transformation Center under its focus area “artificial intelligence”. The activities in Rwanda focus, among others, on the implementation of trainings and fellowship programmes on AI, the creation of local AI training data sets (voice data and earth observation data) and the development of AI use cases, and the development of policy instruments for AI.
GIZ Rwanda and FAIR Forward are searching candidates for the position of the Artificial Intelligence Skills and Ecosystem Advisor.
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Fixed Term: 30.11.2025
A. Main Tasks and Responsibilities
The Artificial Intelligence Skills and Ecosystem Advisor performs the following tasks:
- Support the design and implementation of AI skills programmes such as trainings and fellowship programmes
- Organize events such as workshops, community meetups and meetings of FAIR Forward steering structure
- Support in the field of communication, public relations, preparation of factsheets, including social media and newsletters
- Support the preparation of contracts, preparation of Terms of Reference and other project documents
- Support the management of subcontractors and supervision of events, consultancies and studies, and monitoring and evaluation of FAIR Forward measures in Rwanda
- Manage meetings and events with stakeholders and service providers (preparation, implementation, follow-up)
- Facilitate administrative and logistical procedures for activities in coordination with the GIZ administration team
- Create and keep good relationships with members of the local AI community
- Ensure knowledge transfer within the global implementing team of FAIR Forward
- Support and execution of any other tasks assigned to by the management
B. Required Qualifications, Competences and Experience
- Qualifications and professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, information technology, data science, , or related field
- 3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position
- Strong understanding of AI and emerging technologies more broadly, including its opportunities and challenges in the context of sustainable development
- Strong commitment to responsible, fair and inclusive approaches to AI
- Experience with ecosystem and community building around emerging technologies
- Experience in organization and implementation of events and workshops
- Experience in project management
- Experience in developing and implementing training programmes for emerging technologies is considered as an asset
- Applied knowledge in a relevant technical field such as programming, machine learning, statistics or similar is considered as an asset
- Other knowledge and additional competences
- Finely tuned organizational skills and ability to work on one’s own initiative
- Ability to build and manage internal and external relationships and build strategic partnerships and networks
- Proactive in the development and implementation of ideas and proposals
- Willingness to and experience in working in a multi-national and partly remote team
- Able to work under little supervision but at the same time being a real team player
- Good knowledge of English and Kinyarwanda. Knowledge of French and/or German is an asset
- Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed
- Good knowledge of and relationships with key stakeholders in the Rwandan tech and AI ecosystem is an asset
Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references), via our electronic job portal by using the button “apply”; until 19th February 2024 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB.
GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued – regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please let us know, if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to consider, when considering your application.
Persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.
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