Job Detail

In countries affected by conflict and war, Women for Women International (WfWI) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, she is able to create sustainable change for herself, her family, and community.

Since 1993, Women for Women International (WfWI) has helped nearly 447,000 marginalized women in countries affected by war and conflict. We directly work with women in eight countries (including Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan.), offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency.

Purpose

Plan, develop and deliver training on basic business skills to groups of Women for Women program participants.  Assess the educational level and literacy of the women and deliver material that is appropriate and applicable to the vocational training that will follow. 

Engagement

• Collaborate with the Social Empowerment, and Vocational Skills trainers to plan course material, schedule participants, synthesize material and maximize training results. Work closely with and assist the Program Officer and the Monitoring and Evaluation team to coordinate, plan and prepare training, assess and update training materials and tools and collect data from the participants.
• Collaborate with SE Trainers on scheduling to ensure that all participants receive the full cycle of basic business skills training courses. 
• Communicate with local leaders or other local partners involved in business activities throughout the community. 
• Meet with colleagues to share techniques, strategies, success stories, difficult cases, supplemental materials, etc.
• Maintain daily attendance records of participants and provide to supervisor.
• Contact participants who do not attend sessions if needed to determine whether they should be dismissed from the program.

Delivery

• Assess training material needs, take stock/inventory and ensure training equipment and tools needed are readily available.
• Deliver basic business skills training in accordance with established training curriculum and program guidelines - business basics training (two sessions); Entrepreneurship (one session); planning (two sessions); Selling (two sessions); Bookkeeping (two sessions); Financing Your Business (two sessions).
• Review current business skills training curriculum in view of the particular needs of women in Afghanistan and prepare lesson plans that are appropriate and applicable.
• Assist with gathering feedback on courses and assessing training material and tools.
• Assist with reviewing and modifying lesson plans to improve upon training curriculum as needed.
• Gather data on participants as needed and provide regular reports to the Program Officer.
• Record information about training sessions in trainer journal – including session topics, reactions to material, challenges, and other relevant issues.
  Recommend women for dismissal from the program according to organizational guidelines

Other Responsibilities

Other Duties within competencies and expertise as agreed with Country Director.

The duties, responsibilities and activities of this job description may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time.

All WfWI staff and contractors/consultants are required to adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct, Safeguarding, Anti-Fraud and Corruption, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) policies, and to WfWI’s:

Leadership Principles                                 Organizational Values

Decisive                                                                       Empowerment

Accountable                                                                Integrity            

Courageous                                                                 Respect

Adaptable                                                                   Resilience         

Inclusive

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