Overall purpose of the role:
The Economic recovery/Life skills Officer – Digital opportunities project, will report to the economic recovery team leader, h/she will also closely work with the economic recovery and the digital opportunities team. The position will support the digital opportunities trainees in linking them to the aspect livelihoods, offer a wide range life skills training, entrepreneurship training, business plan development and support in livelihoods mentorship.
The position is aimed developing the digital opportunities project participants to able to gain skills in negotiation, good communication, developing their CV`s and online profiles, create their own business plans and bid for online jobs successfully.
The position holder will work with a team of digital opportunities staffs which include an officer, assistants, digital trainers and a digital opportunities consultant.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Project Management and Development:
Participate in project planning & implementation including activity, budgeting and procurement/logistics planning
Develop and maintain detailed implementation plans to deliver program to agreed timeline and milestones
Ensure all project activities are implemented on time and in line with the set-out work-plans
Document lessons learned from training activities, community meeting and assist in preparing training reports
Participate together with the digital team to prepare/adopt training manuals E.g lifes skills, entrepreneurship, work readiness/skills for work success
Establish and Maintain the digital training database.
Keep inventory of all the ICT equipment’s under your supervision
Support needs assessment and propose new ideas to improve the digital learning and on-line jobs for youth.
Mentorship;
Provide both financial literacy and life skills training to the trainees.
Provided entrepreneurship training, business plans development skills
Support the beneficiaries in bidding for online jobs by providing skill in developing good online profiles and helping in development of winnable bids
Lead and manage the mentorship sessions offered to the beneficiaries
Coordinate closely with Ajira Kenya and Dadaab collective who provide mentorship to the trainees
Support in the review the mentorship curriculum and strategies in place.
Support acculturation, priority setting, networking, career planning, and counseling related to the individual’s (mentee’s) identified goals toward advancement in their freelancing career.
Support freelancers in client engagement and contract management strategies
Watch out for trends on the online platforms and advise the program team on ways to align implementation
Monitoring and Reporting
Monitor the mentorship program
Keep accurate records of special events and training activities including meeting/class/training attendance
Collect and analyze livelihoods data on a monthly basis
Participate in periodic field level programme review and planning meetings
Support with weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual donor/internal reporting
Monitor the linkages between digital learning and livelihoods especially the growth of earnings by the online freelancers
Record the progress on learning in building their life skills and entrepreneurship skills
Report the general growth and the progress of the beneficiaries
Submit weekly/monthly project updates to the digital learning officer
Planning and Budgeting
Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly plans and share with your supervisor with the aim of implementing them
Experience and technical competencies:
Four or more years’ experience working with I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts
Demonstrable experience in livelihoods programming in a refugee and host community
Experience in providing life skills training
Has an understanding of digital and online job opportunities
Demonstrates a good understanding of Project Cycle Management
Has excellent communication (spoken and written) skills
Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and other relevant computer applications
Good planning and organizational skills coupled with problem-solving ability
Possess good level of conflict management skills
Possess a sense of cultural awareness, sensitivity and respect for diversity
Strong organizational, team spirit and team work skills
Knowledge of the key issues and trends in livelihood/food security interventions
Ability to tolerate diverse cultural, educational and religious diversity in the workplace
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology, Development Studies or Economics.
Language:
Written and spoken fluency in English and Kiswahili
Working knowledge of the Somali Language is an advantage.
Key stakeholders: Internal & External
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