LIFESKILLS TRAINER (1)

Job Title: Life Skills Trainer

Reporting to: Programs Manager

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Life skills officer is responsible for coordinating, planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive wellness and personal development program for students at Young Africa. Answering to the Programs Manager, the Life Skills Officer is responsible for assisting youths build competencies which will allow them to live independently. The life skills Trainer should understand the central concepts and methods of inquiry; uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills; and creates learning experiences that make content meaningful to all students.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of a Diploma in Social Sciences from a recognized institution (Sociology/ Psychology/Social Work)
• Counselling skills
• Environmental health qualifications (added advantage)
• Nursing Certificate/Diploma (added advantage)
• Certified Life Skills Trainer (Young Africa certified)
• Teaching Qualification and experience will be an added advantage.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Source out, arrange and facilitate training that will raise the capacity and increase the self-esteem and wellness of youth; providing activities that develop life skills; build capacity and independence in students.
• Preparation of detailed implementation plan for life skills component of the IYDP with monthly and weekly breakdown of activities.
• Deliver the course throughout the year, utilizing all Life skills trained personnel in YA as required.
• Ensure training meets required learning outcomes and prepares students for onward progression.
• Integration with programs and training teams for planning, implementation, and execution.
• Deliver life skills training as required, based on direction and curriculum developed/ adopted by Young Africa.
• Keep record of all required documents related to Life Skills training program, beneficiary selection, training and post training evaluation.
•  Coordinate with Programs Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, and Vocational Training Principal for parallel monitoring of activities as well as post training evaluation.
• Establish and maintains collaborative relationships with other organizations offering SRHR, life skills youth empowerment programs.
• Promotes integration and program linkages for Life skills activities across projects.
• Participate in YA dissemination activities of its Programmes and courses including developing interactional material as required.
• Build teams for outreach facilitation of life skills in consultation with the Programs Manager to ensure that program activities are in line with set objectives.
• Assist in writing, reporting, and managing grants and seek out donations to support life skills training at YA.
• Establish and maintain contact and productive working relationships with community representatives, local and international organizations, beneficiaries, and employers as related to life skill development.
• Work collaboratively with immediate supervisor and YA’s Finance and administration staff as required to process Purchase Requests (PR) for life skills training component.
• Keep abreast of current national initiatives and activities, develop a network of resources and contacts to further expand the Life skill program.
• Explore ideas and opportunities to personalize training to increase students’ participation.

RELATIONSHIPS

• Reports to Programs Manager.
• Coordinates closely with individual SRHR Officer, Peer Counsellor and M&E Officer.