Youth Coach – Hargeisa, Somaliland

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Title     : Youth Coach

Location : Hargeisa, Somaliland

Positions : One (1)

Application Deadline: 05th February 2023.

SOS Children’s Villages is an international social development organization, focusing on the care and support of orphans and vulnerable children. We support families and communities to build their capacity to protect and care for their children, through our Family Strengthening Programmes. Where children have already lost the care of their biological family, we offer family- based care through our SOS Children’s Villages. In these ways, we support orphans and vulnerable children to be able to grow in a caring family environment. SOS upholds the rights of children and youth and works towards protecting their rights.

SOS Children’s Villages in Somaliland is seeking to recruit Female Youth coach who will work in our next economy project in Hargeisa. The youth coaches are expected to contribute to the guidance and counselling, social development, and to coach the youth on entrepreneur and job reaching. She/he is supposed to implement social development issue.

Key duties include:

The youth coach will have the follow key responsibilities

• Under the management of TNE Project Coordinator, design, plan and implement project activities that are related to youth empowerment.
• Contribute to the preparation of annual, quarterly and monthly action plans and reports, plan assessments, monitoring, review and evaluation activities.
• Organize and facilitate training workshops and compiling reports.
• Keeps updated database on collected information from the youth trainings taking place in the Business Hubs, as well as updating employment opportunities existing in the job market by carrying out surveys on market and potential employers.
• Coach project target youth to define their further soft skill training needs, employment prospects business idea development opportunities and work with the youth as individuals, and sometimes as groups, to assist them in making future career decisions.
• Work with youth graduate for internship attachment to the companies after graduation and in the final years of the training.
• Coordinate with project stakeholders and actors including line ministries and local partners, NGOs, UN Agencies and other stakeholders.
• Break down the annual work plans into weekly, monthly and quarterly plans
• Monitor, evaluate and ensure that the project activities are consistent with plans and budget lines and SOS’s policy and standards.
• Conduct individual and group coaching sessions for youth during trainings and internships.
• Ensure timely procurement, development and distribution of training modules and training materials.
• Coordinate assessments, progress tracking, sensitization / mobilization and follow-up salient issues.
• Arrange inspiring talk sessions for youth
• Prepare periodic project and progress reports as appropriate (Monthly report)
• Ensure reporting of all concerns regarding actual or potential child abuse, mistreatment or any other violation of the Child Protection Policy according to our reporting and responding system.
• Promotes SOS CV child protection policy through raising awareness to all our beneficiaries and partners.
• Additional duties and responsibilities are set out in the detailed position job description