About US:
Restless Development is an international non-profit organization which is embarking on becoming the global banner carrier for youth-led development; demonstrating at the grassroots and policy levels that young people can and must play a lead role in development. Over the past five years, Restless Development has more than tripled the size of its budgets and programmes, and has been repeatedly cited as a model of best practice in youth-led development by the World Bank, DFID, UNICEF and others.
About Feed the Future Program:
Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, is establishing a foundation for lasting progress against global hunger. The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture is a 5 year Activity which will support Ugandan partners, with youth in the lead, to identify and drive forward sustainable, inclusive, and cost-effective approaches that put youth, especially female youth, squarely in the agriculture sector as leaders, farmers, entrepreneurs, and employees. The purpose of this flagship activity is to increase economic opportunities for approximately 350,000 Ugandan female and male youth ages 10 to 35 in agriculture-related fields, in order to increase their incomes and build their entrepreneurship, leadership, and workforce readiness skills. This activity is implemented by Chemonics International in partnership with Restless Development.
Job Summary: The Skills Development Manager for the Restless Development Program will work in liaison with the skills Development Specialist and the Private Sector Partnerships Manager to coordinate YLA activities that support the transformation of youth into high-quality workers and equip them with the skills and practical experience required to gain employment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Improve Skills and Competencies for Youth through:
· In charge of mapping and documenting extra and co-curricular models and partnerships for technical, workforce readiness, leadership, and entrepreneurship skills development through productive partnerships amongst public and private sector actors.
· In charge of identifying opportunities and facilitating youth participation in community forums for youth leadership in agriculture (e.g. peer mentoring, peer-to-peer support, multimedia training, agribusiness competitions, outreach activities, debates, and volunteerism).
· Responsible for designing mechanisms for disseminating SRH messages to youth clubs, adapt SRH materials for parents and influential community members
· Build and strengthen linkages between health service providers, practitioners and in and out of school youth.
2. Identify and facilitate partnerships and collaboration between key actors:
· Promote collaboration between youth, private sector firms, and educational and training institutions to identify interests and priorities on market-driven skills development and jobs needs.
· Facilitate productive partnerships between public and private actors to build institutional and organizational capacity of youth-led organizations in agriculture related activities.
· Build linkages between youth, private and public sector actors, and research initiatives to increase access to improved and/or new technologies for youth; and Identify, leverage, and expand youth-led ICT database applications to create a platform for information sharing and networking
3. Support monitoring evaluation and learning to track performance, measure the attainment of results and provide evidence that enhances collaboration, learning and adapting of the key components of this activity:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The applicant should hold a bachelor’s Degree in agri-business development, development studies, childhood development, education or other relevant field
· A minimum of three years’ experience designing and delivering youth skills development programs
· Proven exposure and experience in Agribusiness and Microenterprise
· Proven experience working with private sector
· The successful Individual must be results-orientated, innovative, creative, and have demonstrated analytical skills and ability to communicate effectively.
· The ideal candidate will be familiar with market based agricultural programs targeting youth and will demonstrate skills and ability to mentor youth.
· Excellent interpersonal skills
· Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
· Broad knowledge and understanding of contemporary development issues particularly those related to economic opportunities for youth
· Demonstrated ability to analyze problems and make sound operational decisions
· Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills
· Prior experience with Monitoring and Evaluation systems and research
· Strong computer literacy with full knowledge of office applications
· Personal commitment to Restless Development’s mission and values.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send a completed application, form, download here and send it to: ugandajobs@restlessdevelopment.org, stating the vacancy job title Uganda – Skills Development Manager.
Deadline: 11th December 2015 by 5:30 pm (East Africa Time)