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    • Employability Skills Training

      The Career Guidance Entrepreneurship and Employability Services Unit organizes regular employability skills training for CAVM students on all campuses. The following are some of the topics covered in our employability trainings based on UR Graduate attributes.

      • Leadership Skills
      • National and Global Citizenship
      • Communication Skills
      • Problem Solving Skills
      • Team Work
      • Job Hunting Skills (CV Writing, Cover Letter, Interview Skills)
      • Workplace Awareness
      • Attitude and Behavior Skills
      • Communication in the Workplace
      • Digital Literacy in the Workplace
      • Special support and mentorship for 4 year students.

    • Entrepreneurship Training

      The Career Guidance Entrepreneurship and Employability Services Unit organizes regular entrepreneurship training for CAVM students on all campuses. The following are some of the topics covered in our employability trainings based on UR Graduate attributes.

      • Entrepreneurial Mindset
      • Entrepreneurial Inspiration
      • Business Idea Generation
      • Team Formation
      • Customer Centricity
      • Innovators Bootcamp (for those who come up with ideas)
      • Innovators Pitching Competition (to select those who will be supported by the incubator)

    • Partnerships and Networking

      We create partnerships and networks for CAVM students to have opportunities to access a wide range of support from our partners and from our created networks, including:

      • Access to entrepreneurial information
      • Access to coaching and mentorship
      • Access to information about sources of startup financing
      • Access to markets

    • Linkage to Industry

      • We link students with industry for various opportunities
      • In the area of employability, this linkage to industry is in form of academic and professional internships
      • In the area of entrepreneurship enhancement, the linkage to industry serves the purpose of providing the student with the required apprenticeship in areas of gaps based on their idea.

    • Orientation and Career Guidance

      • Each campus has a Career Guidance Office
      • Students who need personalized career orientation, guidance and counselling are encouraged to visit the Career Guidance office at their campus.

    • Incubation Program

      Students who emerge from the bootcamp as potential innovators with viable ideas are supported to turn these ideas into businesses through the incubation program.

      This is a 4-milestone program that enables innovators to practically work on their ideas.

      • Milestone 1: Problem Worth Solving & Team Formation
      • Milestone 2: Customer & Value Proposition
      • Milestone 3: Business Model & MVP
      • Milestone 4: Go-to-Market (Marketing Plan & Financial Plan)

    • Coaching & Mentorship

      • Embedded in all both the employability skills and entrepreneurship skills components,coaching and mentorship is central to UR-CAVM’s approach in developing students skills.
      • We connect students with expert coaches who are practitioners in their careers, or in business to come to campus for individual and group coaching and mentorship.
      • Mentors are selected and invited on a regular basis.
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    • HOW TO ACCESS CAREER SERVICES FOR CAVM STUDENTS [ENTREPRENEURSHIP & EMPLOYABILITY]

      • Talk to Career Volunteers at Your Campus
      • Visit the Career Center at Your Campus
      • Register and Attend All Career Events and Programs at Your Campus
      • Get in Touch with Your Coaches and Mentors
      • Talk to Director of Career (Message/WhatsApp/Email): Tel: 0788409748;
          Email: amukayisenga@gmail.com.
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Agronomist Professional Internship at Rwanda Mountain Tea (48 Positions)

Rwanda Mountain Tea (RMT) Ltd is a Rwandan privately owned company that investing in tea business namely tea growing and processing. Rwanda Mountain Tea Ltd was established in 2006 with a core mission to manage and invest in tea estates.

The vision of Rwanda Mountain Tea is to be a regional leader in exporting top quality tea to world markets. The tea companies source the green tea leaf from their own plantations and from out growers and process it into black tea mainly for export markets. So far, the teas from factories under Rwanda Mountain Tea Ltd management attract some of the best prices on the Mombasa tea auction market.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rwanda Mountain Tea would like to recruit 48 motivated graduate Agronomist professional interns as part of its partnership with University of Rwanda – College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UR-CAVM); as part of Rwanda Career Week 2021.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

  • A bachelor’s degree in Crop production
  • Skilled in agriculture planning is an added value
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English or French, Knowledge of all is a plus
  • Use of Information and Communication technology for reporting, presentation, data Management, and analysis
  • High level of Integrity

JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested and qualified candidates should place their application through Rwanda Career Week 2021 and/or contact the Office of Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Employability Services at UR-CAVM Busogo Campus.

Professional Internship in Agriculture at Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (120 Positions)

The Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF) is a nationwide platform whose purpose is to change the current perception among the youths vis-à-vis the agriculture sector in Rwanda, while orienting them to seize investment opportunities through awareness creation, skills development, and advocacy support services. The idea is to create a critical mass of change agents to influence transformation of agricultural business landscape with courage, determination and positive attitude.

It is a platform of young entrepreneurs operating in any sub-sectors of agribusiness value chain (crop and/or livestock production, agro-processing, inputs and other agro-services as well as ICT in Agriculture). Officially launched in May 2016 with the aim to rejuvenate the sector here in Rwanda, RYAF strive to change and challenge youth mindset vis-à-vis agribusiness opportunities for food and nutritional security and sustainable job creation. The forum is officially legalized in the official gazette number 50 of 11th December 2017.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum would like to recruit 120 recent graduates  for professional internship positions with its various partner organizations and farmer cooperatives/SMEs. This is being offered as part of its partnership with University of Rwanda – College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UR-CAVM); as part of Rwanda Career Week 2021.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

  • A bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine, crop science, agribusiness, agroforestry, agriculture economics, food science and technology, agroforestry, irrigation and drainage.
  • Be ready to work in rural areas
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  • Good skills in reporting, presentation, data management, and analysis
  • High level of self-motivation

JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested and qualified candidates should place their application through Rwanda Career Week 2021 and/or contact the Office of Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Employability Services at UR-CAVM Busogo Campus.

Professional Internship in Agriculture at Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (120 Positions)

The Rwanda Council of Veterinary Doctors (RCVD) is a national regulatory body of the veterinary profession.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rwanda Council of Veterinary Doctors would like to recruit 120 recent graduates in veterinary medicine for professional internship positions with its various partner organizations. This is being offered as part of its partnership with University of Rwanda – College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UR-CAVM); as part of Rwanda Career Week 2021.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

  • A bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine,
  • Be ready to work in rural areas
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  • Good skills in reporting, presentation, data management, and analysis
  • High level of self-motivation

JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested and qualified candidates should place their application through Rwanda Career Week 2021 and/or contact the Office of Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Employability Services at UR-CAVM Busogo Campus.

Professional Internship (2 Positions) at Tubibe Amahoro

Tubibe Amahoro (TA) is a not-for-profit organization created in 1995. Its vision is to “Achieve a society of equity in which laws and human rights are respected by everyone”. Its mission consists of “Promoting respect of human rights and integral socioeconomic progress of Rwandan population emphasizing on gender promotion, local economic development, and education of rights”.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rwanda Council of Veterinary Doctors would like to recruit 2 recent graduates; 1 in rural development and 1 in crop production. This opportunity is being offered as part of its partnership with University of Rwanda – College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UR-CAVM); as part of Rwanda Career Week 2021.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

  • A bachelor’s degree in rural development / crop production.
  • Be ready to work in rural areas
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  • Good skills in reporting, presentation, data management, and analysis
  • High level of self-motivation

JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested and qualified candidates should place their application through Rwanda Career Week 2021 and/or contact the Office of Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Employability Services at UR-CAVM Busogo Campus.

Professional Internships (50 Positions) at RARICO

Rwanda Animal Resources Improvement Cooperative (RARICO) is a cooperative created in 2017 by 36 members graduated in Animal Sciences, Veterinary Medicines, Wildlife and Aquatic Resource Management and related fields. It is legally registered in RCA on No RCA/0320/2018 of 14/06/2018 and published in official gazette no.30 of Republic of Rwanda on 23rd July 2018. In 2020, we have 90 members (66 males and 24 females). Many of our members have done on-job trainings in Israel International Agriculture Training Center, Agrostudies and Kinneret College.

JOB SUMMARY:
RARICO would like to recruit 50 recent graduates; to work in various fields of animal husbandry. This opportunity is being offered as part of its partnership with University of Rwanda – College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UR-CAVM); as part of Rwanda Career Week 2021.

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

  • A bachelor’s degree in animal production and related fields.
  • Be ready to work in rural areas
  • Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  • Good skills in reporting, presentation, data management, and analysis
  • High level of self-motivation

JOB APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested and qualified candidates should place their application through Rwanda Career Week 2021 and/or contact the Office of Career Guidance, Entrepreneurship and Employability Services at UR-CAVM Busogo Campus.