Youth Coach – Mogadishu, Somalia

SOS Children’s Villages International

Youth Coach – Mogadishu, Somalia

Job Description

SOS Children’s Villages invites applications from suitably qualified and interested candidates who fulfill the eligibility criterion for the below position.

Job Title:  Youth Coach

Report to:  Next Economy (NE) Project Coordinator

Location:  Mogadishu

Job Summary: 

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 Areas of responsibilities:

  • Under the management of the Next Economy project Coordinator, plan and organize the implement of the of the project activities line with the budget available.
  • Contribute to the preparation of annual, quarterly and monthly reports, action plans, assessments, and monitoring project activities.
  • Support training provider/centers on –job- training opportunities for youth.
  • Conduct coaching sessions together with the project officer for youth who are benefiting from the projects to define their skill needs.
  • Create partnerships and network access for startups,
  • Create the right type of advocacy addressing economic opportunities and un(der)employment amongst youth
  • Amplify and strengthen communication on the employment and entrepreneurial spirit within the local ecosystem.
  • employment prospects and business idea development opportunities and support with the youth as individuals, and sometimes as groups to design their future career decisions
  • Keeps up to date the project database and collect information from the youth trainings taking place in the Business Hubs,
  • Secure employment opportunities existing in the job market by carrying out surveys in market and potential employer for decent job placement.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Degree in social science, education, business administration or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area, such as guidance and counselling, gender, and social work.
  • Minimum of 2-3 years’ relevant work experience in youth programmes, entrepreneurship skills programme and social business management.
  • Experience with partnership development with corporates, start-ups, financial organizations, and other private sector parties.
  • experience in advocacy, lobbying and stakeholder facilitation and network in the Mogadishu
  • Excellent command of the main working local language as well as the general country language including both written and verbal.
  • Awareness and understanding of social development issue, such as the local and national situation, gender, education including the MDGs and SDGs

Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities:

  • Excellent counselling skills
  • Good leadership skills
  • Good reporting skills
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Child Safeguarding Policy: “SOS Children’s Villages Somalia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered.  Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasise to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes

How to apply

Interested applicants should send their applications with a CV and scanned copies of your academic and professional certificates indicating telephone numbers and three referees to this email: hr.so@sossomalia.org

The closing date is 4th Jun 2022.

Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

 

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