Technical Expert at Cleaner Production and Climate Innovation Centre (CPCIC): (Deadline 17 May 2024)

1. Background introduction

The CPCIC, established under the Nation Industrial Research and Development Agency (NIRDA), aims to provide technical assistance and business advisory services related to climate change resilience, circular economy, and cleaner production practices for the private sector. As a project partner in Circular Food systems for Rwanda, the CPCIC focuses on promoting circular business models in SMEs. The project aims to facilitate a shift to sustainable food systems, minimizing waste, utilizing materials efficiently, and promoting regenerative production practices.

The CPCIC is currently seeking a qualified Technical Expert. The role involves connecting SMEs in the agri-food sector, benefiting from the technical assistance facility, to enhance their competitiveness and growth after adopting circular business models. This includes establishing connections with key value chain partners such as other businesses, impact investors, financial institutions, and markets both in Rwanda and abroad.
The role will involve management of technical assistance related to:

• Conduct in-house meetings and walkthrough to raise industrial awareness on adoption of resource efficiency and cleaner production (RECP) technologies, environmental management systems, Occupational Health and Safety, and industrial symbiosis so as to adopt the implementation of the RECP and waste utilization.
• Facilitate industries to have awareness material on energy, material, water savings and occupational health and safety;
• Conduct in-house walkthrough to gathering information in industries (gaps, benefits and critical areas that need improvements during planning and decision making);
• Conduct in –house assessments on Resource efficient and cleaner production (provide options to improve productivity and social-environmental performance);
• Propose an action plan showing short and medium terms interventions;
• Provide skills on RECP to industrial staff (all thematic “energy, water, material, waste and chemical” should be conducted together with industrial staff)
• Assist industries to develop a database in terms of resources consumptions per day and a month;
• Evaluate all assessments done (interventions implemented or to implement, investments required, pay-back and social and economic benefits) and prepare brief report on activities, accomplishments and make final report of RECP assessments and environmental management implementation as well as recommendations for improvements at program or policy level;
• Participate in environmental and clean technologies meetings organized by key partners and mainstream RECP concept where necessary;

2. Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor ’s degree in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, etc.;
• A minimum of 4 years’ practicable experience in manufacturing industry, Industrial quality management, Occupation Health and Safety;
• At least 2 years’ practicable experience in industrial audits, trainings or environmental compliance;
• Practicable experience in Environmental compliance or awareness raising on waste management in industry sector;
• Knowledge on cleaner production concept;
• Practicable experience in ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 is an added advantage.

Terms of employment

This is a fixed 8 months’ contract, only for nationals and based in Kigali, Rwanda and may requires frequent travel outside of Kigali.

The position report to the project coordinator and CPCIC management

Application Procedure

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their soft copy applications documents in one folder to Chief Executive Officer of CPCIC, through recruitment.cpcic@nirda.gov.rw with the position they are applying for in subject line not later that 17th May 2024 at 5:00PM. Hard copies are not accepted. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.