Employment Counsellor to Youth Refugees at HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya

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EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLOR TO YOUTH REFUGEES IN NAIROBI (3 Positions)

Introduction

HIAS is a global Jewish not-for-profit organization that stands for a world in which displaced persons attain full potential and contribute to society through sustained legal, social, and systematic change, attaining legal status, exercising social and economic rights, and rebuilding their lives.

With funding from the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration BPRM, HIAS Kenya is implementing a project aimed at increasing protection for vulnerable refugees and host communities in Nairobi. The project has two goals; goal 1: To improve the safety, well-being and inclusion of vulnerable refugees and host communities in Nairobi through community-based protection and goal 2; to enhance the safety, well-being and inclusion of vulnerable refugees and host communities in Nairobi to prevent, prepare and respond to COVID-19.

Under goal 2, HIAS is looking at getting the following outcomes:

1. Increased self-esteem by vulnerable refugees (young women and men)

2. Increased income by vulnerable refugees through engagement in employment support services.

HIAS is looking for three Counsellors to support eight (8) peer mentorship sessions for 140 young women and 60 young men in Kawangware, Eastleigh and Kasarani.

The purpose for the facilitation role is to support HIAS Kenya to develop and adapt training materials and support in the delivery of counselling services to refugees on wage and self-employment. Each session will take half a day and will run for 8 days. As part of strengthening the capacity of beneficiaries with skills that promote employment, HIAS Kenya has identified key capacity gaps that will form the basis for training.

The objective of this role is for a trainer to facilitate 8 training sessions:

1. Identify and establish durable long-term solutions for employment challenges (documentation, access to permits, education equivalents and gaps etc)
2. Conduct client profile scanning/assessments, skill gap briefs/summaries and recommendations
3. Along with the participants, develop simple business plans that will generate income.
4. Guide participants in determining household budget deficits and alternative income sources to bridge the budget gaps
5. Guide clients on best ways they can navigate negative COVID – 19 impact and succeed in their business initiatives.
6. Establish a linkage platform for knowledge sharing between HIAS livelihood clients, the private sector and relevant market actors. Provide a various contact for networking and inclusion in the platform

Scope of work

The facilitator and the point of contact to deliver the following outputs:

1. Design and adapt the training resources
   1. Develop training contents to be applied interactively and through discussion and other relevant adult training methods, taking into account HIAS global methodologies
   2. Draft the adapted methodology including a workplan for 8 days, training content and schedule and submit to HIAS Kenya for review and approval
   3. Finalize the methodology, training content and schedule as approved by HIAS Kenya project staff
2. Conduct trainings and draft business plans
   1. Conduct the trainings based on the approved methodology and training content/ schedule,
   2. Conduct pre and post training assessment reports
   3. Produce training report in collaboration with HIAS Kenya staff.
   4. Will support in building business plans for the clients who are ready to start up a business.
3. Recommend and operationalize a functional network forum for trainees and other actors.

The counsellor will be engaged for 8 days and reports to the Economic Inclusion Program Manager.

HIAS will:

1. Mobilize the trainees
2. Overall coordination
3. Technical and operational support required throughout the training process.
4. Technical review of all training content, tools and reports.
5. Oversee the coordination and logistics of the in-person and remote trainings.

Qualification Requirements

• Graduate degree in any Business Management related field, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Social Sciences. Preferably an advanced degree.
•  Knowledge and experience in livelihood programming, employability skills trainings, counselling, mentorship, and entrepreneurship.
•  Minimum of 3 years’ experience in training.
• Prior experience in developing participatory training and completing workshops/trainings in time and able to give samples of training materials developed.
•  Experience working in the humanitarian sector and with refugees in urban settings preferably in Kenya will be an added advantage.