Project
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
Training Coordinator
Position
Training Coordinator
Project description
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
Job description
Key tasks include but are not limited to the following:
• prepare a training framework and guide for the project, including checklists;
• support the PIMS in preparing the design and conduct of a training needs assessment for output 3;
• conduct annual training needs assessments for output 2 target participants;
• help to establish the training advisory group;
• lead in the preparation of an annual training plan for women, youth, civil society and MOCIA staff (output 2 & 3), including detailed cost estimates, working closely with the Project Manager and other technical specialists, following consultations and guidance from the training advisory group;
• ensure that the annual training plan is cost-effective, meets that needs of participants, and has good outcomes;
• coordinate all arrangements to implement the annual training plan;
• coordinate the development of a collection of training programs that can be regularly implemented by women’s center staff;
• help to deliver training programs when needed;
• use online resources to maximize training opportunities, such as YouTube, etc.
• establish, design and implement communications for all project training programs (outputs 2 & 3) in order to attract targeted participants;
• help to gather data from training programs to monitor, evaluate and report, and contribute to writing project reports; and
• transfer skills and knowledge to MOCIA and women’s center staff in designing and delivering training and build confidence and effectiveness.
Requirements
• Degree in relevant subject.
• At least 8 years of general work experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in planning, organizing, and implementing training programs.
• Previous work experience working within a multinational team is desired.
• Written and spoken fluency in English language is essential
Additional information
The assignment is planned for 60 person months.
Marshall Islands
Attachments
Duration of assignment
01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030
Deadline for applications
30/09/2024
Job type
long term
Job status
prequalification
Project reference
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women