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About Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)

NCA is one of the largest aid organisations in the Nordic region. NCA have 21 country offices across Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, including four joint country offices and other partner organisations. Our mandate is to save lives and seek justice. We do this by working with long-term development programmes, humanitarian interventions and advocacy toward decision-makers to address the root causes of injustice, poverty and power imbalance. Our work is undertaken closely with local civil society partners and other NGOs. NCA Afghanistan is currently working on Climate Resilient WASH, Climate Smart Economic Empowerment, Humanitarian Response, Learning and Social Development, Integrated Community Resilience Action (ICRA) project and Civil Society capacity building.

Job Description

Job Summary:

The post-holder will provide technical assistance to project outcome 2 – Enhanced marketable skills to support food security of the project. This will include providing technical support to women, men, and youth to gain new marketable skills, including vocational training skills and provision of apprenticeship opportunities to TVET students.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Technical Support

• Provide technical assistance, including support to review and develop training methodology, learning materials, application of training manual, modules, and curriculum, and supporting lesson planning/scheme of work.
• Support the team to conduct a need analysis and market assessment in the targeted locations to identify the relevant trades or occupations that are in demand among target groups in the community.
• Support beneficiary identification, verification, crosschecking, and final selection in line with the project plans, selection criteria, and standards.
• Develop quarterly and monthly workplans for the assigned trades/components and keep the project coordinator updated for any changes, updates, progress and challenges.
• Support the project team to develop and build a strong network with the relevant stakeholders in the area and work together to support the development of marketable skills.
• Support the project team in conducting continuous search for innovation and improved learning program practices within and outside NCA to pursue continuous program improvement and technology adaptation into TVET programs.
• Provide technical assistance to develop TORs for TVET-related activities, including support to drafting technical specifications for TVET start-up kits
• Support and provide guidance to the TVET students participating in the apprenticeship program.
• Provide feedback to the project management team on findings and learnings to reflect field-level realities.
• Document and share learning and best practices and ensure that they are incorporated into future TVET projects.
• Work closely with the M&E Officer to find ways to improve project quality, and monitoring performance in relation with the curriculum, modules and delivery of the training.
• Participate actively and engage with communities through accountability workshops and receive community feedback to improve program quality and delivery, especially grant disbursement.
• Supporting colleagues and partners, they adhere to Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM), Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) on quality and accountability, and the SPHERE standard.

Reporting, Communication and Visibility

• In collaboration with the Regional Coordinator, ensure timely and quality reporting of project activities / targets and accomplishments.
• In collaboration with NCA Communications team, support the development of materials that can be used to increase the visibility of the project at the province.

Skills Required

• having experience in the mentioned field

Submission Guideline:

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

Applications will only be accepted via the following link:

https://ncaco.recman.no/job.php?job_id=386071

NCA does not charge or have any registered agents for job application or any form of paid priority listing. Application through the supplied web link is completely free.

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