Amref Health Africa is seeking a Skill Development Officer to provide technical assistance and support for the France Development Agency (AFD) funded project. The primary responsibility of this position will be to help build the foundational skills of young people that open up pathways for economic opportunities and strengthen youth agency. This position will support the development and delivery of high-quality literacy and numeracy, life and soft skills, leadership and civic skills, and work readiness skills training for young people, and build sustainable capacities of youth-serving organizations to cascade future trainings at scale. The Officer will provide technical support such as capacity building training, workshops, consultative meetings with relevant stakeholders, supportive supervision, developing tools and guidelines that will contribute to a quality service in the implementation area.
II. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Preparing weekly, monthly and quarterly detail implementation work plan.
- Participate on project implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the activities
· Collaborate closely with IYA, Kefeta technical advisors and specialists across the youth development ecosystem to ensure basic education and skilling interventions are well integrated and aligned with overall program strategy and goals.
- Ensure that planning and implementation of the project activities are in accordance with the program principles, approaches, and procedures of the organization
· Support the development and application of Kefeta intake tool to assess risk appetite and develop tailored training packages of work readiness skills for youth seeking paid employment, or entrepreneurship training for those starting their own businesses.
· Establish a functional literacy program within the project, linking youth in need of basic education to project services and adding components of life skills, healthy behaviors, and civic engagement to existing Regional Education Bureau ABE curricula.
· Organizes and facilitates joint participatory monitoring programs with zonal and woreda partners and community groups, both technical and management bodies, document lessons and provide feedback to the project office.
- Facilitates and encourages regular review meeting and project review schedules at zonal and woreda level and help the different institutions have it institutionalized commitment;
· Prepare periodic update reports on project successes, challenges facing the project, and progress toward meeting deliverables focusing on the basic education & skills area.
- Undertake other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor