Life Skills Trainer

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The project will empower young women to take control over their career choices by providing skills and opportunities to increase their employability and support them to make informed life choices. This will be achieved through high quality career services and life skills training and a suitable job placement and/or vocational training. Given the precarious economic situation for businesses, the project will strengthen the capacity and resilience of MSEs to withstand the current crises, thereby increasing the likelihood that women will remain employed after job placement. The project will improve Public-Private dialogue and engagement by promoting collaboration between the private sector, SDCs and project beneficiaries. In addition, the project will encourage women rights and regulatory frameworks conducive to growth of youth and women-led enterprises and decent working conditions.

PROJECT MODALITIES (Food, Cash, Capacity Strengthening, Technical and Specialist Services): Cash, Capacity Strengthening, Technical and Economic Empowerment Gender Equality.

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

• Career counselling and life skills sessions are delivered to 540 young women from 18 to 29 years old.
• 25 facilitators from 8 SDCs and 2 local NGOs are better prepared to deliver high-quality employability programmes.
• Targeted young women receive conditional stipend throughout their job placement and vocational training attendance.
• Technical skills and knowledge of targeted young women is enhanced
• Job matching is offered to targeted vulnerable young women
• Micro and small enterprises are supported by a tailored business plan

LOCATION / REGION: Nabaa, Shatila, Burj al-Barajneh, Tripoli, Beddawi and Naher al-Bared

Job Description:

Secours Islamique France is seeking a Life skills trainer/coach for this program to provide Face to Face/online training, Develop a Plan of Life Skills training to include elements of leadership, decision-making, effective communication, as well as skills for developing healthy relationships and positive self-awareness, core values such as self-confidence, respecting oneself and others, managing emotions, personal responsibility, conflict management, teamwork, communication (listening, verbal, written), creative and critical thinking.

the trainer will conduct the below topics:

Life skills:

• Emotions.
• Individual strengths.
• Mental Models.
• Positive Brain storming.
• The power of pausing.
• Biases.
• Individual dream.
• Discovering habits.
• Positive Communication.
• Positive Negotiations.
• High quality connections.
• Beginners Mind.
• Collective Strengths.
• Positive Leadership.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

• Design work plan, curriculum for TOT life skills training,
• Plan life skills training programs according to organizational requirements
• Produce training schedules and classroom agenda
• Determine course content according to objectives
• Prepare training material (presentations, worksheets etc.)
• Execute training sessions in groups
• Keep and report data on completed courses, absences, issues etc.
• Observe and evaluate results of training programs
• Determine overall effectiveness of life skills training and make improvements
   

Reporting/Communication:

• Draft narrative and quantitative reports as per SIF internal requirements and donor requirements.
• Ensure internal communication and information sharing on project with relevant staff (Business Officer, Livelihoods manager)

   

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Education: University degree in Business management, Social Sciences or any other field relevant to development.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of previous experience in life skills training.

• Proven experience in content creation and curriculum design.

• Languages: Excellent command of English and Arabic (speaking and writing).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Knowledge of issues relating to women rights, gender, humanitarian, development issues, and protection response.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a supportive technical and communication style.
• Ability to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with partners including local authorities.
• An understanding of and commitment to SIF’s mission and values
• Patience and positive attitude is highly requested
• Strong communication skills.
• Proven experience in content creation and curriculum design.
• Good organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Computer literate.
• Proactive, flexible and dynamic.  
• Good Presentation skills

Ethic and professional practice

• Always respect of beneficiaries’ confidentiality.
• Respect and promote SIF’s Policies and report to your line manager any non-respect of SIF’s policies amongst the teams or partners.
• Address needs and requests in a professional way.
• Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others.
• Always respect a refusal of assistance in job opportunity that is not the field of interest for the beneficiary