Employment Opportunity at WUSC-EUMC
ROLE: Partnership and Resource Mobilization Advisor
Assignment Context
Do you care a lot about equality between men and women in the non-traditional trade sector? Do you know how to work with others and get resources together?
As the Partnership and Resource Mobilization Advisor for the Ghana Technical Vocational Education and Training Service in Accra, Ghana, you will help GTVET and stakeholders in Ghana’s technical and vocational industry build strategic relationships and partnerships. In this position, you will help build new relationships and professional networks in the field.
Apply today to make a difference in Ghana’s progress toward gender equality!
Roles and Responsibilities
- Working with staff, study groups, and other people and groups interested in promoting TVET education in Ghana
- Help suggest new and interesting partnerships for possible projects.
- Help with the tools for managing partnerships and getting resources.
- Support the creation of funding support plans that are tailored to each giver.
- Help the staff with a study of donor trends in Ghana’s TVET funding landscape
- Help staff learn how to find and use resources and handle partnerships effectively.
- Support including concepts of environmental sustainability and climate action in the design of the program and get ESCA stakeholders involved.
- Use a gender equality lens at all steps of writing a proposal and when doing any activity.
- Help the group think about how to include program participants in a meaningful way.
- Take part in training before the assignment. Take part in at least three projects that involve the public before, during, or after the mission. The volunteers will have the tools, training, and help they need to reach these goals. During their job, volunteers will also have one virtual check-in with the Public Engagement Officer.
- Set up a personalized fundraiser page for volunteers on the WUSC platform and share it with your networks. Volunteers will be given the tools, training, and help they need to reach the goal.
- Send in reports when the partner group and WUSC ask for them.
Qualifications and Work History
- Degree in Business Administration, Social Sciences, or a similar field
- Proven and shown the ability to come up with new ideas and methods
- Ability to work both alone and with others in cross-cultural settings
- At least two years’ worth of useful professional experience in your field.
- A dedication to gender equality, including young people, and volunteering abroad
- Flexibility, flexibility, good people skills, and cultural awareness are all important.
- It’s a plus if you have experience leading groups and giving training, including coming up with the material.
- People value people who have lived and worked in other countries.
Project Description
Volunteering for growth is a big part of what WUSC does to reach its goal. The IGNI+E project is funded by Global Affairs Canada. It works with over 70 partner groups to help 1.2 million young people around the world become more economically independent and promote gender equality.
Through volunteer work and public engagement, IGNI+E uses the knowledge, skills, and abilities of skilled Canadians to help partners improve their performance, fight for gender equality, and create more sustainable, innovative, and inclusive programs and services for poor and marginalized youth, especially young women.
Overseas, our volunteers work with a wide range of partners, such as business and social company incubators, training centers, women’s groups, and youth groups. In Canada, WUSC works with institutions and individuals to find, prepare, and support volunteers who go abroad to help our partners.
Our network in Canada also works with WUSC to make Canadians more aware of global development problems and get them to take more action. To make a better world for young people, we are all working on changes that will last and include everyone.
Partner Description
The Ghana Technical Vocational Education and Training Service (GTVET), which is the new name for the combined TVET service, has a lot of knowledge from the 48 years it has been around. Act 351 of 1970 made the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) a legal organization. Its job is to coordinate all parts of vocational training, such as apprenticeship, on a national level.
A tripartite national manpower board was set up in 1967 to do a thorough study of the country’s manpower needs and places for skill training. It brings together the government, businesses, and workers to plan the best way to develop and use human resources in line with the planned social and economic growth of the country.
Support Package
- The WUSC Volunteer Mobilization Team helped and guided volunteers before they left, and the WUSC Country Team did the same while they were on duty.
- Pre-departure training to learn about the volunteering for development program, gain real skills for living and working in a cross-cultural setting, and connect with other volunteers.
- In-country instruction when the assignee gets to the country
- When needed, training in the language of the country of task
- Small living and housing allowance each month
- Flights to and from the country of assignment
- Visa/work permit
- Pre-departure medical exam
- Health care coverage
- Vaccinations and antimalarial medicine
- PCR tests for COVID-19
- Criminal record checking
- Vacation leave entitlement
- Debriefing after the task is done
- An amazing chance to make a real difference in the world, improve your professional skills, and take part in an event you’ll never forget!
How to Apply for this Employment Opportunity at WUSC-EUMC
Closing Date: 28th June 2023
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