Recruitment At Solidaridad West Africa 2018

Solidaridad West Africa (SWA) is a not-for-profit organization that supports the sustainable development of farmers and production systems in West Africa. We play a catalytic role by partnering with private sector companies and other stakeholders to foster the development of socially responsible, ecologically sound, and profitable supply chains. Our activities in West Africa are focused on cocoa, gold, oil palm, cotton and other commodities.
As the Regional Expertise Center (REC) within Solidaridad’s international network, we are part of a growing global movement advocating and supporting sustainable and responsible production and trade.
SWA focuses on stimulating sustainable supply chains through innovations in good practices, robust infrastructure, sustainable landscapes management and enabling policy environment.
The Solidaridad regional office is based in Accra, Ghana and currently has programmes and operations in Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.

Job Description

Job Title: Training, Capacity Building And Curriculum Manager

Solidaridad seeks to recruit highly qualified and motivated persons for the following positions for their operations in Ghana and within the West Africa sub-region.
We offer a unique, competitive remuneration and challenging job environment for optimum performance of staff in an international setting.

Reports to: Regional Director
Duty Station: Accra

Profile Summary

The position holder provides strategic leadership for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Solidaridad training/ curriculum strategy and promotes the use of learning processes.

Key responsibilities

Lead the development, structuring, implementation and continual improvement of the organization’s curricular and strategy
Responsible for identifying, supporting and enhancing the use of high quality, effective training/curricular resources.
Lead the periodic assessment of different commodity training needs.
Manage curricular and training resources with the support of needed external expertise.
Establish a system for documenting, packaging and sharing lessons from the implementation of commodities training curricular.
Provide applied experience in learning research and practice to develop training materials for internal and external partners.
Work with respective project teams to integrate learning, experiences and outcomes into various curricular on annual basis.
Mentor and coach staff to build organizational capacity; and performance monitoring of key training activities
Any other duties as assigned by the Line Manager.

Required Skills or Experience

Master’s degree in a discipline relevant to training and capacity building and other related disciplines.
Minimum 10 years working experience in similar positions with other reputable organisations (international organisations, consultancies, bilateral agencies etc.)
Demonstrated experience in training curriculum development and management
Excellent command of MS-Office, Google suite.
Good communications and writing skills

How to Apply

Do you identify yourself with this candidate profile? Please send a one-page motivation letter (addressed to the Administrative Manager, Solidaridad West Africa) and a CV in English to [email protected], and indicate the position you are applying for in the subject header.

The closing date for this vacancy is January 30, 2018.
For more information about Solidaridad please visit our website: www.solidaridadnetwork.org.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.