Vocational Training Officer

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

• Develop and implement ideas for vocational programs with women and youth.
• Organize field meeting with the community disseminating the main topic of the project and the vocational training opportunities for youth.
• Supervise in the collection of data for beneficiary verifications and households assessments related to vocational training
• Organize Focus group discussion with women and youth to establish the training interest and level.
• Assist the PM in preparing vocational training activity plans, in consultation with the training providers and beneficiaries.
• Lead the data collection on the local labour market and enter collected information on job vacancies, training opportunities and self-employment support programmes into the database 
• Establish and maintain contact and productive working relationships with community representatives, local and international organizations, jobseekers/beneficiaries and employers as related to life skill development.
• Create a network SME (Small and medium enterprise) able to offer job opportunities to SIF beneficiaries at the end of the vocational training.
• Supervise regular follow up with the beneficiaries when inserted in the labour market through the SME or self-employed.
• Supervise the vulnerability profiling  and vocational trainings assessment in the field
• Supervise the vocational training activities and lliaise on a daily basis with the training suppliers, the teachers and youth.
• Organize vocational workshop with women and supervise the implementation, ensuring that all logistical arrangements are taken and that beneficiaries attend regularly 
• Ensure that the transportation to and from schools (bus and transportation fees)
• Ensure all vocational skill-building take place in a safe environment as dictated by women and youth
• Collect all information sheets (beneficiary lists, registration forms, and others) at the training venue and submit them to the Database Officer on a timely basis, in order to ensure prompt data entry
• Find proper location/institute for Training and workshop
• Organize meetings, FGDs and information sessions with vocational training beneficiaries
• In collaboration with the PM develop the evaluation tools to monitor the vocational training effectiveness as well to assess the impact of the delivered courses
• Collect case studies and success stories according to SIF guidelines, document all lessons learned and best practices
• Any additional related task assigned by line manager.

REPORTING

Reports directly to SIF’s, Project Manager/line manager and Beirut Office. S/he will submit the following reports at the end of each week:

• Ensure a daily proper recording of data (# of trainees, Course, activities delivered, etc);
• Centralize all information gathered in the field and consolidate a daily report (into the proper reporting format);
• The Narrative Report which includes: the number of beneficiaries, actions taken, number activities conducted, Counseling activities, number of people attending the session with breakdown per age group and gender;
• Provide regular reporting on your activities to the PM and Programme Coordinator upon his/her solicitation.

ETHIC AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Openness to working with refugees as well as with Lebanese beneficiaries
• Always respect of beneficiaries’ confidentiality
• Respect and promote SIF’s Policies and report to your line manager any non-respect of SIF’s policies amongst the teams or partners
• Abide and sign the SIF code of conduct and respect to child Protection protocol
• Address needs and requests in a professional way
• Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others.
• Always interact with children with the presence of their parents or caregivers
• Always respect a refusal of treatment

PERSON QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications, experience and competencies

• University degree in Sociology, Social Workers or any other related degree
• 2 years’ experience in livelihood, community mobilization and participatory decision making highly preferred and valued
• Demonstrated experience and capacity in conducting emergency assessments, field-level data collection, and experience analyzing field data and concisely reporting on results.
• Strong ability to work independently, organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity and flexibility and organizational skills
• NGO experience preferred
• Good experiences in counselling
• Experience in working with private sectors and understanding of job markets
• Good Command of English and Arabic (speaking and writing)
• Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office, especially Excel and Word
• Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in environment with tight deadlines;
• Rigorous, and polite
• Respect of SIF values and mandate