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Job Title: Projects and Business Manager
Company: British Council

Vacancy: Projects and Business Manager
Location: Kigali
Country: Rwanda
Job Description (Duties):

Job Aim: To manage specific projects within the country programme in support of the British Council's overall purpose.

Duties:

Project management; To manage and implement selected projects within the country programme, as directed by senior colleagues.
Budget Management; To manage operational expenditure against budgets for each project managed.
Partnership;To maintain good relationships with project partners.
Marketing and communication; Ensure that effective marketing and communications strategies are in place and are implemented effectively for each project.
Performance Management; To line-manage, where appropriate, one or more Project officers to support project delivery, ensuring that full range of performance management tasks are carried out for each line manager. Assume full responsibility for own professional development in consultant with line manager.
Team working; Provide support as required to the work of the wider country/regional team, carrying out tasks from time to time which might be considered appropriate to either more senior or more junior grades.


Necessary Qualifications:

Skills and Experience:

Must have a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management or in a related field.
Minimum 3 years work experience in project management.
Proven track record based on evidence supporting possession of the following essential behavioral competencies; Achievement, Analytical Thinking, Professional Confidence, Holding People Accountable, Leading and Developing others, Relationship Building for Influence.
Fluent in English.

How to Apply:

Applications clearly indicating the vacancy with curriculum vitae's and academic qualifications copies should be addressed and sent to the;

General Manager, NFT Consult, Plot 8721, Golf Course Road, Nyarutarama, Kigali, Rwanda.

P.O Box 5595, Tel: +250 02570099, +250 (0) 78 119453 or email to britishcounciljobs@nftconsult.com (Ensure you indicate the job title i.e. "Projects & Business Manager: in your subject line, only MS word applications or PDF files will be considered).

Only shortlisted candidates will be considered.

Deadline: 2011-02-18