October 15, 2008 –
May 31, 2011
|
Lebanon
|
International Labor Organization, Regional office
ILO
UN agency
|
Vocational Training Expert -National Officer
NOA-3
|
Project title: North & South of Lebanon Emergency Programme, Poverty reduction through Enhancing local employment, skills & enterprises – Strengthening Information and Access to Employment for Palestine Refugees
(funded by Canadian embassy CIDA, UNRWA, UNDP, implemented by ILO)
Services Rendered:
- Liaise and build sustainable relationships among INGOs, local NGOs and stakeholders including UN agencies & Lebanese officials
- Liaise & cooperate with Palestinians institutions' fund providers, stakeholders, and National authorities including private & public sectors
- Coordinate & collaborate with local Employment Service Centers and with other ILO projects
- Review career guidance & placement materials
- Assist in NBC Participative Value Chain Analysis of the Construction Sector (PVCA)
- Provide different types of technical and HR backstopping as needed to beneficiaries on their internal levels
- Follow up, participate, & provide recommendations as requested in most activities with local NGOs, INGOs, EU, & other UN agencies that have activities related to VET
- Follow up & participate in cluster activities for Palestinian camps especially livelihood & educational clusters
- Conduct Vocational Education and Training institutions mapping
- Conduct field & desk research, qualitative labor market demand driven rapid skills assessment
- Analyze gap between VET courses & labour market demand then match with labor force interests and capacity
- Provide recommendations and training plan for the vocational training in response to the labor market demands in various sectors mainly construction, management, services & IcT
- Conduct M&E and develop indicators to show project impact and progress
- Develop suitable indicators to measure in a systematic approach the project impact & progress along with its effectiveness & efficiency
- Develop Training of Trainers intensive course materials & its assessment guide line – 4 Modules of learning in English & Arabic. They are equivalent to 9 university degree credits; prepare and supervise ToT training for 45 trainees
- Decide, plan, fund, implement, and M&E apprenticeship (on-job training) activities in automotive &construction sectors. Conduct all tasks involved from planning, contracting, M&E, reporting to logistics & payments process
- Plan and prepare Entrepreneur development, business management and self development training
- Decide, plan & prepare projects’ vocational training plan, strategy, and action plan, implement & monitor, on-site visits, inspections, report, follow up analyses, corrective actions, draw conclusions and recommendations in various sectors such as construction (electricity, heating & cooling, carbentry, landscaing, etc), IcT (AutoCAD, website, graphic design, ICDL, etc), Services, Tourisem
- Decide, plan and oversee all VET activities: 9 consultants, 6 team members, 9 VET providers and 388 end beneficiaries
- Make decisions on fund allocation to VET courses that are labor market demand driven to fill the gap between vocational training and labor force for skills development initiatives
- Decide on fund spending for all VET activities. Conduct & follow up with all tasks involved
- Prepare Term of Reference (ToRs), service contract and External collaborations contracts, waivers, addendums for consultants, employers & VET institutions. Also other forms as supporting documents for contracts
- Oversee projects’ implementation & impact based on result based management and ILO procedures
- Decide, plan & facilitate workshops & seminars in English & Arabic
- Manage logistics aspects & data base development
- Follow up with all payments and logistics process related to contracts as ILO rules
- Provide assistance and backstopping to VET providers in camps and assure timely manner delivery
- Assure all projects component are done with gender lens
- Assure good understanding of legal/institutional framework as well as methods of delivery
|