Job Title: Technical Expert - Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship
Location: Dar es Salaam, Various Countries
Salary: 66,000,000.00TZ Minimum Gross per Annual
Contract type: Permanent
Full Time: 35 hours per week
Application Closing Date: 31 Jul 2019
Interview date: To be announced
VSO is the world’s leading international development organisation
that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Working in 24 countries
around the world, our unique role in international development is to
place committed volunteers with carefully selected organisations where
their skills can have the greatest impact. Our extraordinary volunteers
live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. Sharing their
unique skills and experience to generate new ideas and new ways of doing
things, helping the communities they work in lift themselves out of
poverty. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on
long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come.
Join us and help us work towards our vision of a world without poverty.
Role overview
VSO
is looking for an experienced and technically strong specialist in
Youth Employment and entrepreneurship programming, to help lead the
implementation of our Resilient Livelihoods strategy, with its assets
and capabilities core and our “volunteering for development” approach,
and around which VSO is seeking to build a unique identity in
livelihoods programming.
This is an exciting and challenging
new role. You will provide technical leadership to a globally dispersed
team of staff and volunteers to identify, test and document new and
promising practices across VSO’s Youth Employment and entrepreneurship
programmes, mainly in Tanzania but also in Cambodia and other countries
in Africa and Asia. The overall purpose of the role is to support
improvement in the quality and impact of VSO’s Resilient programmes
globally. This will enable VSO to document, replicate and expand
effective approaches, with the aim of helping more of the world’s poor
and marginalised people to achieve their livelihood aspirations.
You must be willing and able to work effectively, creatively and
pro-actively in a networked, collaborative environment with colleagues
based in different countries and from different professional
disciplines, including front line programme delivery, funding and
business pursuit, people resourcing, MEL (monitoring, evaluation and
learning) and finance and grant management.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Essential:
Essential:
• Master’s in Development studies, Agriculture or other relevant qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of programming, Youth Employment
and entrepreneurship including vocational and agricultural related
skills training; enterprise development; market-led approaches.
•
Proven experience of securing external funding and grants, including
proposal development. Evidence of understanding the challenges of donor
and contract management and the implications for programme management.
• Proven experience in financial management, including building a
budget, monitoring and managing expenditure. Experience of having
compiled financial reports.
• Excellent understanding and
demonstrated experience of project cycle management, organisational
assessment, planning and M&E tools and processes.
• Experience of compiling donor reports.Source: AjiraLeo Tanzania
• Leadership and people management skills; including handling complex
situations to an effective conclusion; experience of developing,
coaching and managing high performing teams.
• Self-motivated, ability to use own initiative, flexibility.
• Strong representation and negotiation skills; ability to negotiate and maintain relations with external stakeholders.
• Oral and written fluency in English, with ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences.
• Able to adapt to new and demanding situations, with experience of living and working in developing countries.
• Able to travel, including work away from the home base for up to 30%
of time, both within the country and occasionally internationally with
some weekend and evening work.
• Excellent coordination and planning skills with experience of working under pressure. Time management skills.
Desirable:
• Practical experience gained within a volunteering NGO context and of managing a volunteer programme.
• Evidence of ability to provide effective support to international and national volunteers.
• Experience and knowledge of the country and region.
• Experience of working in a matrix organization with multiple reporting lines across different locations.
VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.Source: AjiraLeo Tanzania
To submit your application, click the link at the end of this advert and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.
VSO has zero tolerance of abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. We expect all our employees/volunteers to ensure we protect children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy (PDF).
