Indutsry Competitiveness and Building Program Manager at Rwanda Development Board (RDB): (Deadline 25 January 2024)

• Program governance: The program manager takes charge of planning, organizing, and coordinating the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to completion. • Idea Generation and Evaluation: Evaluates ideas based on their feasibility and alignment with RDB strategic objectives. • Program Planning and Execution: The program manager ensures that the project progresses according to plan, monitors breakthroughs, and handles risks and issues that may arise. • Cross-functional Collaboration: The program manager works closely with diverse collaborators and senior managers, facilitates effective communication, coordinate efforts, and ensure alignment across different departments. • Budgeting and Resource Management: The program manager is responsible for developing and handling the project budget, supervises project costs and report on budget performance. • Performance Tracking and Evaluation: The program manager monitors project progress, supervises key performance indicators and critical metrics, and evaluates the project’s success against predefined metrics. Conduct regular project reviews, identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions. • Stakeholders’ Engagement: The program manager effectively engages and communicates with project stakeholders, including donors, clients, end-users, and other internal or external parties. Handles expectations, provide updates on project status, and address concerns or feedback throughout the project lifecycle. • Continuous Improvement: The innovation program manager champions a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within RDB by identifying lessons learned from completed projects and integrate standard processes into future initiatives. • Emulate RDB’s core values and image through your behavior, rewarding and voicing for good behaviors within your team as much as you reward technical competence; • Develop the next leadership bench in your team through identifying and working with HR in developing your team’s talent potential e.g. coach, mentor and facilitate development of direct reports; • Design resource mobilization strategies, donor mapping and writing project proposals. • Any other related assignment as may be directed by superior.