Company Profile

Global Communities is a development organization serving more than 20 million people worldwide each year. The organization’s mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions

Job Description

The mission of Global Communities (formerly CHF International) is to create long-lasting, positive and community-led change that improves the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people across the globe.

Global Communities is seeking a Ghanaian national for the position of Capacity Building Specialist for the 4-year YIEDIE program in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation. This program is designed to create jobs and business opportunities for disadvantaged urban youth in Ghana and will focus on capacity building/training for youth development in the construction sector in Ghana.

This position would provide a high level support to the program with a focus on youth engagement, capacity development and partnership management. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This job description is designed to give an indication of the type of work and performance expected of the jobholder. It does not provide an exhaustive list of duties or performance standards and the jobholder agrees to undertake any other tasks that are consistent with the position and with the provision of quality service to the organization

1. He/she will be responsible to design and conduct Organizational Development Assessment (ODA) and Training Needs Assessments (TNA) for identified interventions and facilitate in developing trainings and their implementation. Report writing of all training related activities.
2. Gather and analyze information to generate common baseline knowledge on the past and current capacity building interventions and provide recommendations on how their results could be used as basis for the development of holistic, comprehensive, in-house capacity building strategy/program
3. Conduct meetings with partner institutions and synthesize their perspectives on the nature of interventions needed to accelerate staff development as well as their vision of an ideal capacity development strategy for their staff;
4. Design a training needs assessment plan, including processes, tools and analytical framework;
5. Implement the training needs assessment, analyze data and prepare a report; and
6. Discuss the training needs assessment findings and recommendations with the management of partner institutions and generate agreement on the succeeding steps to implement the recommendations.
7. Identify various capacity building approaches that the partner institutions need to pursue in the short and long term periods addressing capacity gaps;
8. Carry out multi-level consultations with partner institutions’ staff and officials to generate shared ownership of the strategy/program, train the appropriate unit or personnel of partner institutions
9. Development of capacity building implementation plan, monitoring application of learned knowledge and skills, and identifying the needed follow up interventions to further strengthen the staff capacities
10. Design and facilitate appropriate Training Programs on priority areas of Global Communities
11. Ensure that relevant training programs are conducted in timely manner
12. Implementation of effective training materials development and production system;
13. Capacity development and mentoring partner institutions;
14. Strategic planning and policy advice to partner institutions
15. Monitors and evaluates influence/ impact of training materials and courses, and use data to update materials and approaches
16. Reviews the existing practice of training materials development and production and present a report that addresses different options for implementing a responsive training materials production system
17. Provide supervision, ongoing coaching and support to the staff of partner institutions
18. Explore and materialize new capacity building initiatives
19. Develop and sustain linkages with training institutions and professional bodies with a view to develop partnerships on improved capacity building methodologies
20. Assist proposal writing teams in developing training related part of the proposals
21. Identify and shortlist training specialists to conduct training

Required Skills or Experience

• A higher degree in Business or Development with specialization in Organizational Development
• Minimum of five years in professional training, management and capacity building of NGOs, supervision in training management, production of training materials, in similar positions
• Strong analytical abilities, particularly in the areas of governance, learning, training and capacity development/transfer
• Practical experience in staff development and career planning
• Practical experience in Organizational Development
• Practical experience in workshop organization and group facilitation
• Knowledge of adult learning styles and NGO best practices
• Experience in designing and delivery of training programmes for NGO target group will be an advantage