Jasiri Program Skilling Lead at Center for Rights Education And Awareness (CREAW)

POSITION SUMMARY

The Jasiri program skilling lead provides technical guidance and expertise on skilling interventions and approaches for the Jasiri program. The skilling lead shall ensure that the interventions are evidence-based, align with best practices and contribute to the goals of the Jasiri Program and the Young Africa Works Strategy.

The Jasiri program skilling lead will oversee the implementation of all skilling interventions ensuring adherence to project goals, objectives, and timelines.

The program skilling lead will directly report to CREAW with dotted reporting lines to the Jasiri Consortium Program Steering Committee.

The program skilling lead will carry out the following roles:

Program Management:

• Coordinate the implementation of the skilling interventions and ensure effective communication and collaboration between consortium members, program participants and all skilling partners.
• Ensuring that all skilling interventions are implemented according to the program workplans, budgets, and timeline.
• Oversee activity deliverables, including ensuring report preparation and high-quality timely submission, and ensuring cross-cutting issues are effectively integrated into activity implementation.
• Oversee preparation of work plans, consolidate activity updates, and other skilling activity-related communication materials.
• Oversee efficient and accountable use of program resources that support skilling interventions.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion in the program interventions specifically for persons with disability and refugees.
• Leadership and Team Management: Lead program skilling teams to ensure activity tasks, deliverables, and responsibilities are met in a timely manner.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Oversee the building and maintaining of strong relationships with relevant stakeholders in the skilling ecosystem, including government agencies, NGOs, community organisations, and other key actors relevant to the program. Foster collaboration and partnerships to enhance program outcomes.
• Compliance: Ensure all skilling interventions are compliant with the Jasiri consortium partners values and the Mastercard Foundation charitable purposes, rules and regulations, as per specific contractual requirements. Ensuring adherence to ethical and legal standards, including safeguarding policies, gender equity, and anti-fraud and anti-corruption policies.
• Program Learning and knowledge Management: Oversee learning and adaptation, monitoring and evaluation of program      performance on skilling, using data and feedback from diverse stakeholders to inform strategic decisions and adjustments to program implementation.
• Risk Management: Oversee Identification risks that may impact implementation of skilling interventions and lead development of mitigation measures towards ensuring the program’s success.
• Capacity Building: Oversee implementation of capacity strengthening plans within the consortium program skilling teams and partner organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS

The program skilling lead must have a combination of relevant education, experience, and skills.

• Education: A degree in gender and development studies social sciences, or a related field is required. A combination of relevant education and extensive experience is required.
• Experience: A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in project planning and managing skilling programs targeting marginalized and vulnerable young women and girls. Proven experience in managing and implementing skilling programs and demonstrated experience working in diverse environments is highly desirable. Must have some experience in working with master craftsmen and private sectors players in the Informal economy.
• Project Management Skills: Strong project management skills, including communication, planning, coordination, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting. Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies.
• Leadership Abilities: Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively manage a diverse team and foster collaboration and teamwork. Have great engagement and negotiation skills.
• Technical Expertise: Experience in implementing skilling programs preferably targeting marginalized and vulnerable young women and girls. Practical knowledge of gender and women rights, women and girls empowerment, including understanding of best practices, evidence-based skilling interventions is highly desired.