Director of Business Development and Employment at Rubavu District: (Deadline 12 April, 2024)

– Coordinate, the planning, budgeting, resource mobilization, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting related to Business development and employment; – Develop and oversee the implementation of actionable strategies or plans meant to localize national policies and the District Council’s decisions pertaining to the promotion of business development and job creation; – Raise local population awareness on the importance of savings and connect them with business people, entrepreneurs and financial institutions in order to exploit the existing business opportunities; – Facilitate the creation of business linkages (supply contracts) between local SMEs/cooperatives and large firms by putting in place a win-win mechanism of complementarities; – Coordinate the identification, updating and exploitation of business and local economic development opportunities/ potentialities available within the District; – Coordinate employment mainstreaming in District Development Plan and action plans – Ensure a well-functioning of access to finance forum and identify bottlenecks that hinder access to credit and reimbursement – Collaborate with companies to identify those in need of support in skills upgrading and link them with skills development institutions – Coordinate the mobilization of companies and SMEs to host internees for knowledge transfer, – Serve as a member to the District Technical Coordination Committee and advise the institution on matters pertaining to business development & employment. – Facilitate the collection of information on job creation within the district that needs to be fed in Labour Market Information System (LMIS) – Coordinate the employment promotion initiatives at District Level