Akazi Kanoze,Executive Director Jobs vacancy

nization (NGO) operating under the
Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) certificate No 66/RGB/NGO/2016. AKA’s mission is
providing Rwandan youth with employability skills, capital and support to take
advantage of economic opportunities. Currently, AKA is implementing multiple donor’s
projects including Akazi Kanoze 2 (AK2), funded by The MasterCard Foundation
(MCF) through Education Development Center (EDC), USAID-funded Huguka Dukore
Activity, supporting youth employment, and an Educate!  Exchange Project
which supports capacity building and roll out of the new competence-based
curriculum in Rwanda’s secondary school education system.

• Ensure
  ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and
  consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising,
  communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to
  achieve the strategic goals
• Actively
  engage and energize AKA volunteers, board members, event committees,
  alumni, partnering organizations, and funders
• Develop,
  maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of
  each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction
  for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout
• Lead,
  coach, develop, and retain AKA’s high-performance senior management team
  Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate
  program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively
  communicated to the
• board,
  funders, and other constituents

• Program
  design and project proposal formulation in AKA’s priority areas.
• Manage
  program activities, oversee and/or implement AKA’s Action Plan.
• Manage
  the organization development (OD) process specific to roles and functions of
  AKA
• Supervise
  staff engaged in implementation of activities, work with experts and
  manage Consultancies commissioned by AKA.
• Develop
  medium and short term strategic and operational plans with necessary
  details and ensure realization of such plans.
• Perform
  any other function at strategic or managerial level necessary for
  realization of AKA Mission and objectives.
• Develop
  terms of Reference for volunteers, interns, and consultant and perform
  induction function and have them productively engaged.
• Overall
  coordination activities
• Manage
  the strategic public relations strategy for AKA including dissemination of
  information.
• Conceptualize
  and transform broad AKA Vision, Mission and objectives into workable
  concepts, programs and project activities.
• Strategic
  development of corporate image & networking. 
• Provide
  strategic guidance to the staff and ensure that all engaged staff work
  towards organization’s objectives.

• Lead
  resource mobilization strategy and ensure appropriate use of the
  organization’s resources;
• Expand
  revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program
  operations and expansion while simultaneously retiring financial
  dependency
• Deepen
  and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external
  relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand
• Use
  external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

• Design
  the national expansion and complete the strategic business planning
  process for the program expansion into new markets
• Begin
  to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the
  funders, and political and community leaders at all level
• Be
  an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates
  program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as
  a model for regional and national replication

• Advanced
  degree, ideally in MBA, Project Management, Development Studies,
  Education, Social Sciences or any related field with at least 7 years of
  senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and
  regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based
  organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having
  developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization
  to the next stage of growth
• Unwavering
  commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
• Excellence
  in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and
  develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and
  manage a budget
• Past
  success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate
  existing board member relationships
• Strong
  marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability
  to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
• Strong
  written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate
  communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project
  skills
• Action-oriented,
  entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
• Ability
  to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Passion,
  idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed