Vocational Training Specialist at Sustainet Group

Project Duration: 16 Expert months

Application deadline:  21st July 2020

Specific Tasks

• Validation of the selection and needs analyses of existing training courses in agricultural vocational training and training (ATVET, e.g. curricula on vegetable and fruit cultivation, poultry farming, fish and beekeeping).
• Expansion and revision of existing ATVET teaching materials on climate relevance and gender-sensitive aspects.
• Stocktaking and assessment of their training offers.
• Digitization of selected core modules.
• Needs-driven technical and didactic training of trainers in national institutions.
• Implementation of needs-based qualification packages, including incentive schemes for disadvantaged target groups/youth champions.
• Advising training centers on setting up a monitoring system for ATVET alumni and tracer study.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or higher in vocational education and training or similar subject area
• Language : English (C1), Swahili (B2); Knowledge of Luo or Luhya (B1)
• 10 years in vocational training, curricula development
• 5 years of experience in agricultural vocational training
• 2 years of management experience.
• 5 years or regional experience in sub-Saharan Africa
• 5 years of cooperation with development partners
• Experience in adult education and in the development of monitoring systems, e-learning and blended learning

 The applicant should  have following soft skills:

• Teamwork
• Initiative
• Communication skills
• Sociocultural competence
• Partner- and customer-oriented, efficient action
• Interdisciplinary thinking
• Innovation