Women for Women International (WfWI) – In countries affected by conflict and war, Women for Women International (WfWI) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge and resources, she is able to create sustainable change for herself, her family, and community.
Since 1993, WfWI has served more than 462,000 women in 8 conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan. Since 2002, we have worked with over 20,000 men worldwide to support women’s rights and gender equality.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Social Empowerment Trainer
Location: Magama-Gumau, Bauchi State
Reports To: Social Empowerment Officer
Purpose
- Social Empowerment Trainers are responsible for the implementation of the one-year training curriculum.
- Each Social Empowerment Trainer will manage a caseload of program participants according to organizational standards.
- In addition, the Social Empowerment Trainer is responsible for informing participants about services in the community that may benefit them, reporting on the progress of the participants as required.
Responsibilities
Planning:
- Plan and prepare for each lesson.
- Meet with colleagues to share techniques, strategies, success stories, difficult cases, supplemental materials, etc.
- Plan weekly, monthly and annual training schedules in collaboration with other staff and trainers from other departments, as appropriate.
- Participate in continuing education workshops as required to increase professional knowledge and capacity.
- Identify and source additional training aids and materials as appropriate.
Implementation:
- Orient new participants about program rules and goals.
- Deliver all lessons from the WfWI Social Empowerment s curriculum according to an established schedule.
- Provide information to participants about other services provided by the organization such as vocational training, business skills training or numeracy training.
- Provide information to participants about services of partner organizations or other community services such as microcredit, legal aid, health care, counseling, etc.
- Provide translation and interpretation services, as required.
- Assist in the delivery of sponsorship funds to the participants, as required, by following the internal procedures established by the organization to verify delivery of funds and account for undelivered funds.
- Work in collaboration with other staff to document and report any change in program participant status (i.e., address change, name change, death, etc.)
- Keep management updated on problems or issues encountered in the field.
- Assist in community mobilization of participants in your assigned locations.
Record Keeping:
- Record attendance of participants at each training session.
- Contact participants who do not attend sessions to determine whether they should be dismissed from the program.
- Recommend women for dismissal from the program according to organizational guidelines.
- Gather information for and prepare updates on participants as needed.
- Record information about training sessions in trainer journal – including session topics, reactions to material, challenges and other relevant issues.
- Undertake written evaluation of each training session upon completion of training.
Letter Writing and Participant Stories:
- Deliver letters and translate to recipients.
- Assist participants with letter writing
- Inform women of new sponsors
- Make notes of interesting stories.
Other Duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications
- At least a Diploma; additional post-secondary studies an advantage.
- At least two (2) years of relevant work experience.
- Good administrative and organizational skills.
- Good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team.
- Good report writing and communication skills
- Ability to build rapport with participants and communities
- Must be attuned to the particular situation and needs of the women in the program so as to give proper advice.
- Basic computer skills in MS Word, Excel and Email applications.
- High level of fluency in English (speaking, reading, writing) and fluency in Hausa language
Job Title: Poultry Farming Trainer
Location: Plateau
Employment Type: Contract
Background
- WfWI has been operating in Nigeria since 2000 and has served over 60,000 marginalized women in a 12-month training program that helps women know and defend their rights, influence decisions at home and in their communities, initiate activities that generate income and save money for the future
- Women start small businesses and join to form village savings and loan groups as well as groups and cooperatives in income generating sectors. WfWI – Nigeria moved its headquarters to Jos, Plateau State in 2016 from Enugu state
- Through our men’s engagement activities, WfWI influences knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards women’s rights and participation. To date, the Nigerian team has reached over 7,000 men.
Purpose
- Plan, develop and deliver training in Poultry Production Management principles and practices to groups of Women for Women program participants
- Assess the educational level and literacy of the women and deliver training in a manner and language that is appropriate for their understanding and application in their environment and situation.
- At the end of the training, the participants will have a better knowledge of poultry production, be able to raise small number of birds successfully, understand how to start small poultry business and the role of effective social network to achieve what an individual may not be able to achieve alone.
Duties and Responsibilities
Assisting the Economic Empowerment Officer:
- Assist with gathering feedback on courses and assessing training material and tools.
- Assist with reviewing and modifying lesson plans to improve upon training curriculum as needed.
- Deliver poultry vocational skill training and support women take position economic action.
Planning:
- Collaborate with Social Empowerment Trainers on scheduling to have all participants enter and complete vocational skill training in accordance with the training attendance.
- Collaborate with the Economic Empowerment Officer to conduct pre-training evaluation/assessment and tailor training to meet the participants’ needs to increase their chances of succeeding in their business environment.
- Assess training material needs, take stock/inventory and ensure training equipment and tools needed are readily available.
- Utilize training methods suitable for the target audience with a blend of multiple adult learning and extension techniques to achieve the goal of the program.
Implementation:
- Deliver training to participants in assigned community and maintain skill training group schedule provided by Women for Women International.
- Train women in cooperative according to the standards and requirements’ set by the organization.
- Communicate your findings that need urgent attention to the Economic Empowerment Officer and report on-going progress accordingly to ensure timely response to issues that impact positively on participants’ gains from the training.
- Meet with colleagues to share techniques, strategies, success stories, difficult cases, supplemental materials, etc.
- Liaise with the Social Empowerment Officer to contact participants who do not attend sessions and flag any participant that miss more than 2 training sessions to the Economic Empowerment Officer.
- Maintain daily attendance records of participants using the attendance sheets provided by Women for Women International-Nigeria and provide these to the Economic Empowerment Officer at the end of the training.
- Inspire seriousness in the participants regarding the training and program
- Ensure a clean training environment and surrounding at all times.
- Provide business support information (market, funding source, insurance)
- Asses and ensure participants understanding and desire to apply knowledge and track and report participants’ progress to the Economic Empowerment Officer.
- Provide on-going and by-weekly training update and detailed report at the end of the month.
Qualifications & Competencies
- Minimum requirement of a Degree in Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Economics, Animal Husbandry (Poultry) and any other related course
- Proven ability to work effectively with socially excluded women
- Strong multi-tasking, interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Good customer-service orientation, strong focus and goal oriented
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint packages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to deliver effective results, meet deadlines and achieve targets
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Excellent problem-solver and team player
- Ability to communicate and teach convincingly in Hausa language
- Proven commitment to diversity and equality culture
- Strong working knowledge of Hausa language
- Ability to collect and analyze information and write proper reports.
- Must be resident in Jos, Plateau State.
Deadline: 12th September, 2018.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit an updated CV, Cover Letter and three professional references to: nigeriajobs@womenforwomen.org Please put Social “Empowerment Trainer” in the Subject line.
Note: Only short listed applicants will be invited to interview. No telephone inquiries please.
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