Vacancy Announcement
Smart City Coordinator For The Smart City Hub Rwanda Project (Cluster for Digital Transformation and Digital Economy)
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.
Rwanda champions the Smart Cities concept under the Smart Africa Alliance, a goal also aligned with the country’s national digital transformation agenda that aims to transform the nation into a knowledge-based society. Rwanda, like most countries across the world, is experiencing rapid urbanization, the capital city Kigali currently has a population of 1.7 million, projected to increase to 3.8 million by 2050. The city infrastructures and functions are already strained at the current capacity, hence the urgency to create smart and resilient cities nationwide that can cope with this upward trend.
The Smart City Hub is a consortium between the Ministry of ICT & Innovation, the ICT Chamber, and Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA). The Hub is a one-stop-shop where actors in the smart city ecosystem (public, private and development) can collaborate to empower the digitalization of SMEs, co-design solutions that aim to address urbanization challenges, create impact and improve the lives of citizens in Rwandan cities and communities through technology and innovation.
The overall aim of the Smart City Hub is to provide value-adding services to ecosystem actors (SMEs, cities, the private sector, etc) through;
In this regard, the Smart City Hub is seeking applications from competent, dynamic, and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position in Rwanda;
Position: Smart City Hub coordinator
Job Location: Smart City Hub Office, Rwanda
Number of positions: 1
Contract nature: One Year renewable depending on performance and availability of budget.
A. Job summary
The Smart City Hub coordinator will be responsible for planning and coordinating the implementation of Smart city initiatives in the country, for effective operationalization of the Smart City Hub that was launched in September 2023.
They will be responsible for the rapidly growing Smart Cities practice across Rwanda. They will be supporting Cities’ visions and journeys to becoming smarter, more liveable, and sustainable communities. The key focus will be to manage and lead the day-to-day activities of the Smart City Hub engagements, assist in building the Smart City Practices and the team.
The Smart City Hub project advisor coordinates with youth, local leaders, private entities, local government, line Ministries.
B. Responsibilities
C. Required qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications
Professional experience
Other knowledge, additional competences
Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references), via our electronic job portal by using the button “apply”; until 30th April 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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