Country: Nigeria
Closing date: 31 Dec 2015
DFID-funded skills development programme
Empowering marginalised youths and women
Northern Nigeria
Title - TVET Training Specialist
Reporting to - TVET Intervention Manager
Background
MAFITA is a 6-year DFID-funded programme working in Nigeria's northern states, with a vision to empower marginalised youths and women through provision of increased economic opportunities and social inclusion. MAFITA is currently recruiting.
Position Overview
The TVET Training Specialist supports the development of curriculum, course outlines, training materials, training of trainers, assessments and certification in the TVET institutes.
Key areas of responsibility
- Act as main liaison between Mafita and the training institutions on training management matters
- Facilitate the understanding and implementation of minimum standards within the TVETs
- Liaise with Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) through the intervention manager to develop criteria for the selection of TVET teachers for training-of-trainers
- Liaise with Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic for the development of occupational standards, unit specifications and learning materials for the training of TVET teachers
- Facilitate the training of selected TVET teachers
- Facilitate institutional assessment of the TVETs through the intervention manager
- Liaise with the TVET Operations Officer for the procurement, installation and training of upgrades in the TVETs
- Facilitate and monitor quality and relevance of training in the TVETs on a regular basis
- Liaise with NBTE through intervention manager to register and accredit TVET institutions and their programmes
- Conduct any other tasks assigned by the Intervention Manager
Duration and Location
This is a full time position, commencing on the 4th January 2016 with anticipated 440 days of input until 4th January 2018. The consultant will be based in the Kano project office with some travel to the focal states; Kaduna and Katsina, with Jigawa in the long-run.
MAFITA
Northern Nigeria has high-youth unemployment, insecurity and limited economic opportunities. This reality can lead to extremism and instability. Marginalised groups, such as adolescent women and the Almajirai are particularly hard-hit.
MAFITA aims to lead 68,000 marginalised young people - with a particular emphasis on adolescent girls and Almajirai - to gainful employment. By 2021, the program will create a net total of 43,300 full-time equivalent jobs and assisting 23,500 micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The project will tackle the supply and demand side of the labour market, focussing on the delivery of skills essential for employment, as well as the absorptive capacity of the labour market.
MAFITA will partner with public and private stakeholders to improve access to relevant and quality training, mentorship, work experience, business development, and financial services for marginalised youths and women. The programme will also support local market systems to enable the absorption of MAFITA's target beneficiaries into sustainable income-generating activities.
Applications
Interested applicants must have experience working in the skills sector and must comply with requirements.
Applications close on 31/12/2015
Due to the volume of applications received by Adam Smith International, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Required Skills:
Technical area:
- Professional experience in either vocational training, TVET, COSDEC or apprenticeship
Language:
- Fluent in Hausa and English (written and spoken)
How to apply:
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=Y2hyaXN0b3BoZXIubW9yZ2FuLjQ2MDY2LjM4MzBAYXNpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ