The Country Manager will provide overall leadership for Strathmore Research and Consulting Centre (SRCC) initiatives in Rwanda including Executive Education, student recruitment and research with emphasis on comprehensive business development initiatives to drive achievement of revenue targets while ensuring costs are managed to achieve surplus targets while ensuring excellence in program quality and client experience. Cultivate maintain sustainable, long-term relationships with key stakeholders, clients and program participants.

1. Strategic Leadership & Operational Management

·Define and execute country strategy aligned with organizational goals, monitoring market trends and adapting plans to capitalize on growth opportunities.

·Build and lead a high-performing team through clear goal setting, performance management, coaching, and talent development to drive results and foster excellence.

·Oversee day-to-day operations ensuring efficient resource allocation, streamlined processes, quality standards, and service excellence across all functions.

·Maintain accountability to the Board of Directors for country performance and strategic outcomes

2. Lead the Promotion of key SRCC Rwanda areas of focus

a. Executive Education

Direction/responsible for sales management and delivery of sales targets in Rwanda. Leading the preparation, pitching and follow up of proposals for corporate academies in Country.

· To identify and establish productive and sustainable links with potential public and commercial
partners in Rwanda, regionally and worldwide, promoting the School as an integral part of the business community and where appropriate, secure and implement executive education partnership agreements through the Dean and SBS Management Committee

·To represent the Business School in Rwanda and maintain effective working relationships with
senior officers of Public, Private and Statutory Bodies, including professional associations, learned societies, and the wider business community.

·Direction of programme participants’ recruitment including setting of targets and fees

·Oversight of the quality management of all SBS Programmes running in Rwanda. With guidance of the Director Strathmore Global Insitute, liaising with Directors of Academic Departments/ Institutes, Programme Managers, Client Experience Managers in the development and delivery of programme curricula, schedules and in monitoring of targets/ achievement

b. Academic Program Promotion- Strathmore University, Kenya

·Drive the strategic positioning/awareness of Strathmore University’s academic programs in Rwanda to build long-term market visibility and enrolment growth.

·Lead high-impact recruitment initiatives—Open Days, institutional partnerships, and targeted market engagements—executed through the country team.

·Strengthen strategic relationships with schools, corporates, and influencers to build sustainable recruitment pipelines and brand presence.

c.Research Promotion

·Champion SRCC/SU’s research agenda by identifying priority sectors and positioning the institution as a thought-leadership partner in Rwanda.

·Cultivate and manage high-value relationships with development partners, donors, and industry leaders to unlock research funding and collaborative opportunities.

·Enable faculty–industry linkages that generate applied, policy-relevant research and elevate SRCC’s influence in regional dialogues.

3. Country Budgetary Responsibility

·Budgetary responsibility for all Rwanda programs

• Revenue Targets: Seek to meet set revenue targets within stipulated financial and budgeting guidelines.
• Debt Management: Collect all program fees relating to programs prior to commencement or as per approved financial payment plans. A sale is only complete after
  collection.
• Cost Management: Managing the cost drivers and specific line items as per approved budget manage the budgets, targeting a minimum of 30% net surplus
• Profitability Targets: Ensure set margin targets are attained for individual assignments
• Annual budgets: Submit to the director annual budgets within stipulated deadlines

4.Partnerships and relationship management

• To identify and establish productive and sustainable links with potential public and
  commercial partners in Rwanda, regionally and worldwide, promoting the School as an integral part of the business community and where appropriate, secure and implement executive education partnership agreements through the Dean and SBS Management Committee
• To represent the Business School in Rwanda and maintain effective working relationships with senior officers of Public, Private and Statutory Bodies, including professional associations, learned societies, and the wider business community

5. Management reports

• Monthly budget and target performance reports
• Internal management reports: Prepare and submit management reports on Executive Education activities, activity schedules and plans to the Director SRCC as per agreed timelines.
• Client Reports: Schedule progress review meetings with clients, submit client reports
  on-going and concluded projects
• Responsible for managing the Faculty: materials, contracts, claim forms, payments etc
• Manage materials requested by both the Faculty and Participants

6.Any other duties assigned by Director of Strathmore Global Institute.