Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda
Rwanda aspires to become an upper-middle income country by 2035, and a high-income country by 2050. Guided by Vision 2050, the agriculture sector will be totally transformed with professional farmers and commercialized value chains. This will require modern market-oriented and climate resilient agriculture, with scaled up use of modern technologies to maximize productivity (Vision 2050).
Agriculture mechanization lags behind with regards to Rwanda’s agriculture transformation and modernization goals. Out of the 1.4 million hectares of arable land of the country, only 70,740 ha of farmed land are mechanized, i.e. 5%. The National Agriculture Policy emphasizes importance of mechanization for increasing labor and land productivity, in a context-specific framework that responds to the specific needs of the country, and outlines following policy actions:
- Establish a mechanization center to prototype and test mechanization technologies;
- Promote mechanization at the farm-level and across the value chains by linking farmers to sellers of technologies;
- Create mechanization service centers to support operation and maintenance of the equipment;
- Foster labor-saving technologies, especially to reduce women’s workload and allow them to allocate more time to other productive activities and child feeding and care.
Volkswagen Mobility Solution Rwanda Ltd established the project titled “GenFarm Project”, in which electric tractors, electric scooters and other electric agriculture mechanization technologies will be tested and used in farming operations. Electric tractors and electric scooters offer a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to conventional diesel tractors and motorcycles.
The objective of GenFarm Project is to make a positive sustainable socio-economic and environmental impact on the community in which the project operates by creating a carbon neutral business ecosystem centered on electric tractors and e-scooters while increasing agricultural production and making rural mobility possible and easy. The project is intended as pilot project for the duration of 3 years to demonstrate the technical and financial viability of the GenFarm project.
To this end, VWMSR wishes to recruit a E-Mobility Manager to word under the above mentioned project as per below role and responsibilities.
Position: E-Mobility Manager
PURPOSE OF POSITION
- To plan and execute transportation service for the GenFarm Project in Rwanda
- The goal of the transportation service is to provide the local user sustainable and affordable transportation service in Rural Rwanda
- Manage the drivers of the transportation service and ensure that they comply with their Service Level Agreements as signed
- Oversee and manager self-drivers of e-Scooters and ensure that all customers comply with their Indemnity Form requirements
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
2.1 Education Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in relevant discipline.
2.2 Core Work Related Experience
- 5 – 7 Years in operating a transportation service (Goods or People) either as a business owner or on behalf of a company
- Experienced in transportation service management with solid knowledge and experience of required processes.
- Previous experience with cross-divisional and management interaction within previous companies
- Experience in calculation of operating costs for a transportation services
- Experience in conducting user research to ensure the transportation service meets customer needs
- Development of transportation service business models and calculation of business cases to establish feasibility
2.3 Core Skills
- A thorough understanding of operating procedures with respect to transportation services
- Ability to communicate professionally on technical, commercial, legal matters covering a broad spectrum internally at VWMSR, VWSA, VW Brand / group, and external suppliers
- Assertive with good negotiation skills
- Understanding of customer facing transportation services and how to assess feasibility of implementation
- Intermediate skills in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated ability to work within cross functional teams (Team Player)
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Problem solving & decision – making.
- Project Management skills and experience
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Key Activities/Functions of the job
- Sourcing and, interpretation of required statistical data necessary for decision making in respect of transportation service
- Develop and submit recommendations of requirements agreements where required with drivers
- Monitor and review execution of transportation services
- Provide technical input into preparation of the specification / RFQ for sourcing drivers for transportation service, with specific responsibility for the finance, business and service delivery aspects.
- Develop key performance indicators for assessing the performance of transportation service
- Identify Opportunities and Risk in transportation service and request mitigating measures to reduce Risks
- Prepare reports and submissions where required
- Approved projects are executed according to technical applications within budget parameters.
- Support GenFarm Project Leader in the integration of the transportation service to other services within the GenFarm project
- Provide technical expertise to the project team.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should send their both combined cover letter and well-detailed CV no later than 6th December 2023 at 11:59 pm via the apply button below.
