VT Coordinator

Project Description

The project aims to empower girls and boys to pursue more meaningful and worthwhile income-generating opportunities through two components:

• Vocational Training program at Dannieh area
• Innovation Lab at Mina area

The project includes BLN services, technical trainings, placement and job creation for youth aged between 15 and 24 years old, in addition to digital and social entrepreneurship followed by business and inspirational mentorship sessions and sub grants for new ideas.

Project Coordinator Main Tasks:

Project implementation

The PC is supported for logistical, Financial and administrative issues by the Project

Manager(PM), the PC will:

• Work closely with PM to ensure project activities are running smoothly and conducted based on the project’s timeline.
• Attend relevant team meetings as needed.
• Assist the Project Manager to schedule meetings and assist him in these meetings: meetings with relevant local authorities, community leaders, key informants, NGOs and CBOs and attend these meetings as needed and as agreed to in coordination with the PM. 
• Visit the project sites to follow up the workshop process when needed.
• Hold regular meetings with local stakeholders.
• Serve as lead among other field project staff (field coordinator and/or social worker) to coordinate with PM to manage and coordinate logistics for all project activities.and provides technical direction to them.

- Liaise with PM to ensure that PRs, reimbursements and other finance-related aspects of the project are executed according to SF policies and procedures and in compliance with donor requirements.

Technical assistance

- Assist in identifying potential topics for vocational trainings in coordination with the private sector and potential beneficiaries, and based on previous market assessments.

- Develop and coordinate all project training modules in coordination with the trainers and provide on-going technical assistance to implement various trainings for beneficiaries including soft skills trainings.

- Organize and arrange the implementation of training activities in collaboration with the field workers.

- Assist the field workers in linking beneficiaries to potential employers in the target areas for on job training.

- Assure the coordination of training services with other activities conducted under various project components.

Monitoring and Reporting

The PC reports to the PM and provides regular monthly reports to PM and assists him in drafting the quarterly report. The PC will:

• Ensure that activity reports of other project staff are submitted on time.
• Assist the monitoring officer in drafting the monitoring plan and monitoring tools.
• Assist in drafting the progress and final reports.
• Prepare report of the activities for media coverage.