Position: Technical Adviser Youth Employment and entrepreneurship
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Salary: 66,000,000.00TZ Minimum Gross per Annual
Contract type: Fixed Term
Full Time: 35 hours per week
Application Closing Date: 30 Mar 2019
Interview date: To be announced
Overview
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:
• 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.
• 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.
Equal Opportunities
VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.
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. To submit your application, click on ‘Make an application’ 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).
