Team Leader Vocational Skills Development Program (VSDP)

Tasks

• Lead, guide, support and mentor the VSDP Team
• Represent VSDP towards external stakeholders
• Develop and foster contacts and cooperation with institutions from private and non-profit sectors 
• Analyse and synthesise Program outcomes and contribute to the further development of concepts
• Establish and maintain structures and instruments for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
• Prepare and conduct regular review of the Program’s progress and constraints
• Achieve qualitative and quantitative outcomes and impacts of the Program 
• Ensure that gender equality and social inclusion, conflict sensitive program management, and environmental sustainability aspects are mainstreamed and achieved
• Establish an adaptive programme management process utilising the results and evidence from the Monitoring and Results Measurement (MRM) system. 
• Lead the overall knowledge management 
• Develop progress reports maintaining excellent analytical quality
• Lead fiduciary management of the programme
• Maintain and update risks assessment and mitigation strategies  

Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of progressive professional work experience and at least 6 years of experience at a strategic leadership role in managing complex programs
• Master’s degree (or higher) in a field relevant to the programme
• Solid track record in designing, implementing, and managing TVET projects
• Experience of working with market systems development approach
• Understand employer-led skills development interventions
• Experience in managing medium to large-scale development cooperation programmes, especially aiming at achieving systemic results
• Lead a diverse team and build teams
• Excellent analytical, negotiating, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Manage working relationship with diverse stakeholders
• Experience of working in fragile conditions and ability to handle stressful situations
• Experience of working in Asia, and the region, will be an asset
• Advanced communication skills in English (verbal, writing, listening and presentation) with excellent computer literacy in MS Office programs, specifically MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Do you relish leading and mentoring a dynamic team of sharp professionals? Are you a development professional with an appetite for leading an exciting and ambitious program in a challenging context?

Swisscontact offers attractive working conditions in an international and multicultural context. We see our work as a joint effort in an agile organizational culture: mutual respect, trust and teamwork.

We look forward to receiving your online application before 8 March 2024, with the following documents: letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, diplomas and three (3) references. Please apply exclusively via the online application portal. We will contact only short-listed candidates for the final selection process.

For further information please visit our website and/our country website Myanmar.