INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

As Ethiopia aspires to reach middle-income status by 2025, the country is investing heavily in building and operationalizing Industrial Parks (IPs) with the expectation that IPs will help drive structural transformation and export-led economic growth. While IPs are expected to create highly-productive and decent jobs for its young population, the process is not automatic for acquisition of industrial skills and create viable jobs in a relatively short time.

With over 25 Industrial Parks planned within the next years, there will be high labour demand created for direct jobs within IPs by FDI. These FDIs have been attracted to Ethiopia, amongst other things, by the investment incentives and the competitively priced labour force. This provides the opportunity to create the much-needed jobs for the relatively low skilled and young labour force along with technical and soft skills training. If this is carried out successfully, it means growing Ethiopia’s labour force into the next ladder that is trained young people with economic means.

BRIDGES PROGRAMME

First Consult (FC)/Development Alternative Inc (DAI) is contracted to provide management and technical support services to Mastercard Foundation under the BRIDGES programme to support the creation of close to 600,000 youth jobs (80% women) and 15,000 MSMEs, with 300,000 unemployed youth trained through supporting IP job creation initiative and market linkage between IPs and MSMEs.

The BRIDGES Programme will address two fundamental, immediate and complementary challenges to unlock the potential for job creation within IPs and their surrounding ecosystem. (1) Making the industrial workforce markets work, which through the Enterprise Partners Programme, First Consult/DAI have successfully piloted in a few industrial parks and is now ripe for scale-up. (2) Making the IP business linkages (MSME) markets work to enhance domestic manufacturing value-added (MVA) for every given dollar of export. This will be done by substituting the currently-heavy import-dependent operations – itself a constraint on the factories - via local suppliers (MSMEs) in a number of ways.

OBJECTIVE         

The objective of this assignment is to identify a firm that has a capacity to deliver a soft skill training using a developed audiovisual training module. The firm is expected to deliver a Training of trainers (TOT) for factory trainers as well as factory operators around different regions and localities in and outside of Industrial Parks (Maximum of 10 Industrial Park across Ethiopia).

You can get full details of the TOR from the below email :

TOR Soft Skill Training for TOT - V1.docx

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

• Firm experience of 5 years, that specialized in various soft and life skills training that should be led by a professional with degree and work background in Girls (Women) rights, Girls (Women) empowerment especially in soft skill training and education. The firm should have proven background of organising soft skill development training.
• Minimum Master Degree in the development field or advance level of such types of training and soft skill training is preferable.
• Experiences in working in develop and deliver soft skill development training or TEVT training
• Demonstrated ability to implement and manage the soft skills development training sessions.
• Experience of working with young people (girls).
• The firm should have knowledge related to gender issues.
• Ability to write and speak fluency in English as well as Amharic, fluency in local languages like Tigrina and Afaan Oromo is preferable.
• Ability to work with local staff with respect, maturity and impartiality.
• The multi-disciplinary team should comprise members with minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience working for development projects, similar in nature and level of complexity as First Consult.

Essential Competencies

• Staff with advanced skills in curriculum development and training in audio visual materials.
• Advanced skills working with multi lingual adult trainees.
• Advanced skill in working with foreigners, fluency in English and communication skills