Job Title: Capacity Building Coordinator
Supervisor: Project
Director
Duty Station: Nairobi
About the Organization: CAP Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya, supported by MasterCard Foundation, is established to provide Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) for disadvantaged youth with particular focus on women to get equitable, qualitative learning and access to promising labour market oriented opportunities, savings and credit that support their pathways to safe and positive futures.
The key purpose of the organization is to assist 10,000 disadvantaged youth to
make informed choices, develop labour-market oriented employability skills and
access job placements, savings and enterprise development support. About the Organization: CAP Youth Empowerment Institute Kenya, supported by MasterCard Foundation, is established to provide Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) for disadvantaged youth with particular focus on women to get equitable, qualitative learning and access to promising labour market oriented opportunities, savings and credit that support their pathways to safe and positive futures.
Purpose
of the Role: The Capacity Building Coordinator
is expected to train TVETS and Youth polytechnics on the BEST model so that
they can adopt it.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Compile and submit training and progress
reports as and when required.
- Work closely with Youth Polytechnics and TVETS
to ensure adequate capacity is built in various areas of the model.
- Support TVETS and Youth Polytechnics in the
implementation of the model.
- Develop consistent capacity-building
approaches and tools to support TVETS and Youth Polytechnics in the
replication of the model.
- Develop training materials and other Capacity
Building resources to support the capacity building initiatives.
- Coordinate the design or review of existing
capacity building assessment tools.
- Plan, coordinate and facilitate the
implementation of capacity building assessments to Youth Polytechnics and
TVETS.
- Network with local leaders, TVETS and Youth
Polytechnics to build their capacity in support of replication of BEST
model.
- Delivering training to Youth Polytechnics and
TVETS.
- Ensure effective coordination of all capacity
building activities with Head Office.
- Coordinate the preparation and submission of
capacity building reports.
- Contribute and coordinate the capacity
building’s annual, monthly and weekly planning.
- Refine, implement and update regularly all
necessary programme tracking and programme management tools.
- In collaboration with the Documentation
Specialist, document success stories and lessons.
- Source and liaise when necessary with external
resources persons to co-facilitate training
Qualifications, Experience and
Competencies
- Bachelor’s Degree in social
work/sociology/community development.
- 3-5 year experience in capacity building in an
NGO or a development agency.
- Experience in developing learning materials
and delivering training course and other capacity building initiatives.
- Formal certification in a relevant vocation
and/or teaching/training certification (desirable)
- Strong Coordination,
Facilitation, Presentation, Influencing & Training
Skills
- Proven ability to work effectively with
diverse groups.
- Experience working with local communities.
- Knowledge of and experience using
participatory training methods and Training of Trainers (TOT)
- Good interpersonal, communication and
presentation skills.
- Strong report writing and networking skills.
How to Apply
This position is on full time basis.
To express interest in this
opportunity, send your CV and cover letter to recruitment.capyei@gmail.com
Deadline: 30th December 2014
Cover letter should be pasted on the
body of the email and not as an attachment.
Applicants are required to quote
their current and expected salary.
Only short listed candidates will be
contacted.