Career Guidance and Employability Specialist – CE Under Statute at UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA: (Deadline 23 August 2023)

Career Guidance and Employability Specialist – CE Under Statute at UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA: (Deadline 23 August 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
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 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
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 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 working experience
Bachelors degree holder: 3 working experience