Position: Monitoring Officer – Skills (Short term) (Premium Job)

Job Description

Project: Safer Migration Project (SaMi)

Location: Province 1, 3, 4 & 5 (SaMi Provincial Office)

Reporting to: Vocational Skills Development Officer in Kathmandu, SaMi Program Support Unit

Must have a two-wheeler valid driving license.

Job purpose:

This position is responsible to carry out monitoring of the skills training programme for returnees and potential migrants, implemented by SaMi's partner Training Management Institutes (TMIs) in their respective provinces and also support in administration, monitoring and documentation of skills training program.

Duties and Responsibilities

Compliance with policies, rules/regulations and guidelines

• Adhere to relevant policies, procedures, regulations, and guidelines of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (Personnel, Financial, Administrative policies; Security Response Guide; Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Guide; Sexual Harassment & Mobbing Policy; Code of Conduct Against Corruption, etc.) and other specific policies applicable for SaMi;
• Ensure Conflict Sensitive Programme Management at all levels;
• Compliance with the GoN and SDC policies and approaches as relevant and required.

Skills Training Programme Monitoring

• Develop a periodic monitoring plan and implement it effectively
• Orient the returnees on the training modalities and prepare them for the training
• Monitor the pre-assessment of the existing skills of the returnees conducted by TMIs' instructors / external assessors and recommend the number of days of training that would be required in consultation with the instructors/assessors
• Support TMIs at major milestones of training & employment chain such as trainee selection, timely entering the trainee data in NSTB and acquiring skill test date, quality training delivery, logistic support, recording and reporting of the progress through coaching and mentoring
• Monitor skills training and employment initiatives for returnee migrants implemented by the TMIs in the assigned provinces
• Conduct monitoring of the skills training for potential migrant workers in the respective provinces where training is being implemented
• Capacitate the TMIs of the assigned region to operationalize an efficient and effective monitoring system as prescribed in the SaMi skills monitoring guideline.
• Support and guide TMIs on preparing activity, outputs and outcome reports and support in documenting the lessons learnt and best practices

Networking and Coordination

• Take a lead role in coordinating TMIs, TMI’s staffs, trainers and other stakeholders at the local level.
• Coordinate with Migrant Resource Centers and Employment Service Coordinators to link the returnees in the training.
• Coordinate with province NSTB/CTEVT offices for timely skill conduction.
• Take a lead role in coordinating and drawing lessons from the activities of TMIs to further upgrade the skilling migrants and returnees' initiatives.

Job Specification

Minimum Education Attainment: Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences or Developmental Studies or in a relevant field.

Minimum Professional Experience: At least 2 years of work experience in skills training monitoring. Experience in Technical Education and Vocational Training sector as a trainer or in other relevant capacities will be an asset

Required Competencies

• Experience in liaising stakeholders, coordination, capacity building of partners and training facilitation
• Good understanding of the Technical Education and Vocational Training Sector of Nepal
• Excellent knowledge of monitoring the skills training activities for maintaining training quality
• Knowledge of MIS, proficiency in using office application software; ability to produce, understand and analyze standard database reports.     
• Good analytical report writing skill and writing case studies
• Ability to orient the trainers on the gaps and TMIs on the required improvements
• Having knowledge of training programs implemented by other donors in the province
• Confidence in orienting and explaining the programs
• Ready to be engaged in field mobility and having a constructive and positive attitude
• Result-oriented personality, aware of priorities and maintaining deadlines
• Ability to analyze the situation and act tactfully
• Excellent interpersonal, intercultural competencies and good team player
• Good verbal and written communication in Nepali and English
• Ability to work under time pressure

Apply Instruction

Interested candidates who meet the above requirements are requested to visit our website at http://apply.helvetas.org.np and submit their application through the online portal. The detailed job description is available on the website.

All positions are required immediately.

Telephone inquiries will not be entertained. Any recommendation or influence from other than nominated referees or previous employers may risk the candidate disqualifying the candidacy. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the further screening process. Helvetas Nepal reserves the right to reject any or all applications without assigning any reasons. Local candidates are encouraged to apply.

Helvetas Nepal promotes workforce diversity and applies positive discrimination to women candidates and candidates from Dalit, Janajati, Madhesi/Terai, and other minority communities.

Deadline for submission of application: 12 March 2021