Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Feasibility study - TVET support project in Rwanda
Job description: TVET specialist
Rwanda Polytechnics has signed a financial agreement with the French Development Agency (AFD), for the implementation of a pilot project in the district of Rulindo: AFTER Project (Appui à la Formation Technique et l'Emploi à Rulindo). Expertise France, the French Agency for international technical expertise, has been asked to support the implementation of the project until 2024.

The project consists of 3 components:
• Component 1: Reinforcement of the training offer in IPRC Tumba and TVET around the IPRC:
• Component 2: Reinforcement and development of schemes to foster professional integration and entrepreneurship in the district
• Component 3: Technical assistance to the project management and support to the various actors involved in the territorial scheme
At the same time, in relation with the first positive results with the AFTER project, the Rwandan authorities, AFD and Expertise France are considering, as early 2023 extending the project to two new districts of Nyamagabe and Karongi - with one IPRC and four TVET schools in each district.
The new phase of the project also aims to scale up the pilot actions of component 2 to the national level, i.e :
• strengthening the employability of students through better collaboration with employers and better monitoring students during and after their studies
• strengthening support for entrepreneurship in IPRCs and TVET schools
• strengthening the capacities of the Districts in the follow-up of job seekers and entrepreneurs.
To this end, AFD is mobilizing Expertise France within the framework of the Cap Compétences multi-country facility to conduct the feasibility study for this project.

A team of four consultants will be mobilised:
• A team leader specialised in project design
• A TVET specialist
• A specialist in employment support / professional integration/entrepreneurship
• A gender and social inclusion specialist

The present call for applications concerns the profile of a TVET specialist.
Tasks
• Analyse the relevance of the existing and planned courses and their qualitative characteristics in IPRC Kitabi and IPRC Karongi: job suitability; educational modalities; educational facilities, training of trainers, etc...

The courses concerned are tourism, nature conservation and forestry at IPRC Kitabi and horticulture and aquaculture at IPRC Karongi.
• Propose/argue the possible adaptations in relation to the previous analysis
• Establish, in connection with the previous points, the technical and pedagogical design of these programmes at IPRC Kitabi and IPRC Karongi: pedagogical modalities and their deployment; human resources (available/to be recruited, to be strengthened); parameters of the programmes in terms of number of learners, size of class-groups, number of hours of training, hourly workload of teachers, distribution of the training areas and modalities, material conditions and equipment, etc.
• This analysis provides a framework for infrastructure design (led in parallel by a firm of experts)
• Establish a detailed list of professional equipment, furniture and computer equipment needed in IPRCs and TVET schools concerned in Nyamagabe and Karongi districts
• Draw up the outline of training/capacity building actions to be carried out in IPRCs and TVET schools concerned in Nyamagabe and Karongi districts for teachers, administrative and management staff
• All these analyses (relevance of the programmes and adaptations, technical and pedagogical sizing of IPRCs, equipment of IPRCs and TVETs, capacity building within IPRCs and TVETs, etc.) should be carried out in close collaboration with appropriate focus groups of professionals, trainers, IPRC managers, etc.
• Define the actions to be carried out and the resources to be mobilised (goods, services, technical assistance, etc. excluding infrastructure) to strengthen the relevance of the training programmes, provide the technical and pedagogical design of IPRC Kitabi and IPRC Karongi, provide the equipment for the IPRCs and TVET schools concerned and support capacity building in the IPRCs and TVET schools concerned.

These elements aim to feed the action plan of the future project
Make an inventory of the actions carried out by the other partners within the project's perimeter and promote synergies.
• Identify the key players and stakeholders in the action plan as well as their roles and responsibilities.
• These elements aim to feed the intervention scheme of the future project.
• Budget the actions and inputs proposed in the action plan
• Also evaluate the additional and recurrent operating costs generated by the action plan
• Propose the indicators, implementation hypotheses, implementation schedule and procurement plan for the actions proposed of the future project.
• These elements aim to feed the logical framework and the operational design of the future project.

Required experience
• Bachelor degree (or equivalent level diploma) in education, social science or similar field;
• Successful experience of at least 5 years in setting up vocational training projects/programmes;
• Professional experience or vocational training experience in nature conservation, forestry, horticulture and aquaculture sectors would be an asset
• Experience in setting up projects funded by international donors would be an asset.

Required skills
• Excellent command of office equipment, especially Excel and Word;
• Excellent command of English (written and oral);
• A good command of French would be an asset ;
• Writing skills;
• Initiative, autonomy and responsiveness;
• Adaptability ;
• Analysis and synthesis skills;
• Organizational skills and thoroughness;
• Communication, coordination and teamwork skills;
• Ability in andragogy/capacity building;
• Interpersonal skills, sense of diplomacy.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Please note that application documents would be forwarded to this email: silas.niyitegeka@expertisefrance.fr  and the deadline is 23rd/05/2022.
Duration: Immediate start and final delivery in October 2022.
The number of days and fees for expertise will be discussed with the shortlisted candidates in an interview.
Notes: Application documents should contain a CV, cover letter and certificates and if you are a company, please send your company profile with the CVs of the person who will perform the task above
Kindly note that Expertise France will not be able to notify all the applicants. Only candidates who have been selected will be contacted.

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