Program Assistant TVETs and Industrial Linkages job at Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture ( RUFORUM ) | Apply Now

• Streamlining TVET engagement, youth skills training and University-TVET engagement into RUFORUM programs.

• Provide technical support to RUFORUM’s Skilling & Engagement for Community Development team for the development of a relevant, effective, well-aligned TVET strategy and other strategies.

• Provide technical support to university teams and stakeholders especially YSLOs to define TVET approaches and interventions for the benefit of TVET students and excluded populations especially RDPs and PWDS

• Serve as focal point for RUFORUM engagement in TVET work, joint projects, research, initiatives and events, and participate in relevant TVET fora, including with the TVET steering groups, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Support academia-industry linkages to promote technology-transfer, commercialization activities, student placements, collaborative teaching & research.

Activities

• Conduct needs assessments and tracer studies in the TVET sector to identify training needs and outcomes of training.

• Support the development of the TVET strategy and policies for the RUFORUM network

• Coordinate capacity development activities among TVET institutions, and Youth Serving Local Organisations (YSLOs) to develop, deliver and scale innovative training curricula and new models of agricultural education

• Coordinate the linkage between universities and TVETs and industry partners to promote uptake of TIMPs

• Coordinate students’ placements for internships and industrial training.

Deliverables

• Strategic documents/policies for TVETUniversity alignment drafted

• # TVET institutions engaged in last mile delivery of agricultural advisory and extension service

• Number of TVETs and out of school youths trained

• Partnerships created for TVET and youth mentorship, co-teaching, placements etc.

• Number of enterprises created and transitioned from TVET and youth development initiatives

• Periodic reports: monthly, quarterly and yearly and activity-based reports delivered