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Company | World Univers... |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Project Devel... |
Location | Accra |
Job Status | Fixed Term |
Salary | GH¢ |
Education | Bachelor̵... |
Experience | 2 years |
Job Expires | May 23, 2021 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile WUSC (World University Service of Canada) is a Canadian non-profit organization working to create a better world for all young people. We bring together a diverse network of students, volunteers, schools, governments, and businesses who share this vision. Together, we develop solutions in education, economic opportunities, and empowerment to overcome inequality and exclusion for youth around the world, particularly young women and young refugees. WUSC currently works in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $40 million. We have over 90 staff in our Ottawa office, and over 200 people overseas implementing 16 development projects in collaboration with donors such as Global Affairs Canada, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Mastercard Foundation and the African Development Bank. Job Description
The INVEST Project
The Innovation in Non-Traditional Vocational Education and Skills Training (INVEST) is a 5 year initiative that will build sustainable pathways to enhanced economic empowerment, well-being and inclusive growth for 5,000 urban poor young women in Accra, Kumasi, and Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Working in high growth sectors, the initiative will test and scale innovative, sustainable models to improve the enabling environment, reduce gender-specific barriers to women’s economic participation, and enhance access to decent work for marginalized women in non-traditional sectors.
Nature and Scope
The National Volunteer is responsible for supporting the INVEST project with technical, programmatic, and administrative assistance. The National Volunteer serves as the project’s consistent link to Greater Accra activities, and provides technical input, writing and editing, and coordination that the Greater Accra field activities require. The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience in international development and enjoy supporting local development actors to lead change. The candidate should also possess key issue area expertise in at least one of the following: TVET, gender, education, entrepreneurship, or business development services.
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