The African Centre for Women,
Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT) is a Kenya-based ICT for
Development organization whose mission is to promote women’s access to and
knowledge of ICTs as tools for sustainable development.
The goal of the program is to improve
employability prospects and income generating capacities of 4,500 high
potential but disadvantaged young people from Kiambu, Machakos, Mombasa and
Kisumu counties.
The ‘Vusha’ Program is funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation & Microsoft Corporation.
Job Placements Officer
(2 Positions)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct rapid labor market assessments and job
searches to identify job and internship opportunities for placement of
participants graduating from the program;
- Negotiate with employer partners, secure and
place program participants in internships and job opportunities;
- Make monthly follow-up visits, calls to
employer partners and program participants placed in jobs/internships to
establish progress and areas of support;
- Provide mentorship and technical support to
youth participants engaging online work ;
- Work with the database management team to
maintain up-to date databases of employers and participants placements
details;
- Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual
work plans for review by the program management team.
- Any other duties assigned to you by your
supervisor
Program Trainers
(3 Positions)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Preparing the learning environment and
resources, including routine maintenance and setting up IT equipment where
appropriate;
- Carrying out training needs analyses and
develop interventions/curriculum aimed at addressing skills gaps
identified;
- Reviewing course materials, handouts, manuals
and exercises to ensure appropriateness prior to and during training
sessions;
- Delivering training programs in Computer
Fundamentals, ITE, CCNA, Life skills and Online work in both a formal
(e.g. a classroom) or informal (e.g. workshops);
- Initiate and manage students
evaluation/assessment including tests/exams during and at the end of every
training cycle and ensuring students receive certificates as necessary;
- Maintaining appropriate records of learner
development and certification databases and ensuring that they are
centrally located and available on request;
- Participate in recruitment, selection and
orientation of new program beneficiaries across the country and collection
of exit data;
- Participation in induction and training of
technical/ICT staff joining the organization;
- Provide technical support/ computer
maintenance activities to the ACWICT secretariat and training
venues/centers including those established in partnership with county
governments and NGO partners across the country
- Any other duties assigned to you by your line
manager/management.
Program Interns
(10 Positions)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Working with programme and IT trainers to
review couse materials, deliver training in Digital literacy, MOS courses,
IT Essentials, Life Skills and entrepreneurship skills to the youth cohorts
participating in the “Vusha Youth Empowerment” project;
- Participate in the preparation, management and
monitoring of participants evaluation/assessment including tests/exams
during and at the end of every training cycle and ensuring students
receive certificates as necessary;
- Participate in recruitment, selection and
orientation of new program beneficiaries across the country and collection
of baseline data;
- Participate in program outreach
activities/events among as will be coordinated by the program and/or
training managers;
- Provide technical support/ computer
maintenance activities to county based training venues/centers.
- Any other duties assigned to you by the
program and/or training manager.
Minimum Qualifications
Education / Professional Qualifications
- Relevant Degree/Diploma in (IT and/or BBIT)
- CISCO ITE instructor certification; and
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification is an added advantage
- For Job placements officers positions, human
resource certification will be an added advantage
Experience
- 2 years of relevant work experience in an IT /
civil society/development sector and business development – related
industry.
County Program Officer
2 Positions (Busia County - 1; Trans Nzoia County – 1)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Day to day project management in the county of
operation including developing project implementation plans and ensuring
efficiency in recruitment, training and placement of young people; and
oversee the training activities across the county;
- Support the Program Manager in securing job
and internship opportunities and job placement opportunities in respective
county.
- Support in recruitment, selection and
placement of young people and identification of employers and enterprises
within the county ;
- Provide training support to lead trainers the
monitoring evaluation component of the project and visit interns in their
workplace;
- Maintain regular communication with and
evaluate project progress in each vocational training center
- Prepare weekly/monthly and quarterly project
reports activities in the County ;
- Provide support to youth leaders in community
outreach activities and assist master trainers in advocacy work
- Work closely with monitoring and evaluation
teams to plan and facilitate effective M&E activities.
- Any other duties that may be assigned by the
Program Manager.
Master Trainers
2 Positions (Life Skills – 1: Vocational Trainer -1)
Duties and Responsibilities
- Management of training and inductions of lead
trainers
- Provide follow up support to lead trainers in
life skills and vocational skills
- Assist in monitoring and evaluation aspects of
training support of the project
- Assist in developing training plans and
preparation of training budgets Facilitates in-service training for
instructors / trainers teaching specific vocational courses targeted by
the project.
- Conduct needs assessments to develop training
priorities and conduct evaluation during the training cycle/ duration.
- Support lead trainers in coordinating and
ensure reports and feedback from TVET institutions and instructors/
trainers regarding all aspects of the training component of the project
- Any other duties that may be assigned by the
Program Manager.
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
1 Position
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work closely with project team in development
and implementation of all M&E systems and processes for the entire
project
- Ensure a baseline is conducted at the start of
the programme and that data is collected regularly against set indicators
- Work with project team to implement set project
monitoring and learning systems
- Develop monitoring and evaluation reports for
the entrepreneurship aspect of the project
- Regular monitoring and evaluation visits of
the entrepreneurship aspect of the project
- Assist in developing project monitoring and
evaluation strategy so lessons learned are incorporated into
entrepreneurship activities to achieve greater impact
- Assist in compiling lessons learned from
entrepreneurship aspect of the project Program Interns
ICT Officer
1 Position
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical IT support and assistance
e.g. updating project activities on ACWICT, website; updating project
calendar of events online
- Providing IT technical support during training
workshops and to ICT Instructors in TVET institutions targeted by the
project.
- Assessing the adequacy of the ICT equipment in
the institutions.
- Needs assessment on the type and capabilities
of the mobile phones the youth currently use.
- Curriculum development for Basic ICT training
including benefits of ICT, Net Ethics & Social Media
- Providing training ICT skills during ToT
sessions and preparation of participant certificates.
- Exploration of online work/ seed funding
opportunities.
- Support website maintenance and creation
Communications Officer
1 Position
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop Communication plan for the project to
accomplish goals within scheduled tasks deadlines and milestones.
- Design, develop and implement project activity
and event messages
- Develop and implement communication strategies
to build sustainability and high impact for the project
- Develop communication material for the project
update and progress reports, brochures, success stories from the from the
field and media relations
- Review and develop the content for the program
website.
- Capture and document project milestones,
events and activities.
- Preparing and sharing project reports as per
stakeholder /donor requirements
Qualifications / Required Skills:
- Holders of a Bachelor’s degree in relevant
fields (i.e Project Management; Community Development; Information
Technology; Communication).
- Previous experience in implementing working
with youth employability projects
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills
- Excellent organization, presentation and
independent workload management skills
- Quick learner and problem solver; team player;
knowledge of youth employment/societal issues strongly preferred;
- Possess drive, motivation and acute attention
to detail;
- A proven record of strategic thinking, high
energy, ability to motivate others and a passion for communicating the
benefits of the projects to partners (including employer partners);
- Possess leadership skills with demonstrated
abilities in training, sales, negotiations and partner relationships
managements
If you are interested in any of the
positions above, Please submit your application to admin@acwict.org
Re: Ngazi Project “Job Title” on/or before Friday 7th August 2015.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
