Economic Opportunity Technical Lead Position

Experience and Key roles

Experience

• I have more than 16 years of experience with various organizations in different positions and
capacities like
• Positions assigned
✓ Sr. Workforce development advisor
✓ Workforce Development and Gender Advisor
✓ Socio-economic expert
✓ Project coordinator
✓ Field Coordinator
✓ School program director (Teacher)
Expertise
➢ Project designed
➢ Operational planning
➢ Contract management
➢ Monitoring evaluation of projects/program
➢ Donor, government, and internal organizational reports writing
➢ Human resource and financial management
➢ Grant management
• Areas of expertise
▪ Youth employment and empowerment projects
▪ Gender
▪ Health and education
▪ Enterprise development
▪ Market development
▪ Inclusive financial development
▪ Emergency response planning and operation
▪ Project management
▪ Capacity building and empowerment.
▪ Food security and livelihood development
• Key roles and responsibilities
▪ Provide strategic oversight and implementation guidance
▪ Support field level staffs in the implementation process of the project
▪ Lead the team for project design, monitoring, evaluation, and strategic
implementation
▪ laisse with the regional and country-level partners, private sectors, government
institutions, stakeholders for effective implementation of the project /program
▪ Support and build the growth sector's capabilities and skills. overall technological
transfer, economic /market linkage, broad-based decent jobs for youth
▪ Identify, prioritize and monitor the high potential sector and develop (co-creating )
interventions in partnership with key actors and learn to intervene in other
programs.
 ▪ Lead and contracting with service providers working on capacity building activities
and e-learning platform
▪ Working with the most disadvantaged people like a refugee, youth, women, IDPs,
and PWDs
▪ Manged moderately complex projects with different funding sources like USAID,
DFID, ECHO, UNHCR, EU Trust fund, etc.. with the different budget amount
▪ Establish professional networking with relevant stakeholders, partners,
beneficiaries, donors, government institutions, private sectors, …
▪ Ensure quality and performance of works
▪ Coordination role with stakeholders
▪ Develop proper messaging and communication strategies to raise youth awareness
and ensure that stakeholders are informed and prepared to work with youth in
meaningful ways
▪ Assess interventions periodically for quality assurance and receive mentorship and
community follow up support to enhance performance
▪ Manage youth programming, including pipeline development, grant /partner
identification management (inc due diligence), and program co-development and
delivery quality.

Why you are the best candidate for this position

• I have extensive experiences of both on - ground level development and supervisory

experience – working with stakeholders, beneficiaries, government institutions, private
sectors, Education institutions, IPs, which is a huge potential for youth employment
• Working both in development and emergency /humanitarian interventions is an asset for
me to adapt and contextualized the situation accordingly
• Excellent knowledge about life-skill, employability, enterprise development, working with
education institutions and TVET colleges.
• Working with higher government sectors working in youth development and employment
like JCC, investment commission, private sectors working on online platforms like the
development of e-learning platform
• Good leadership skill
• Fast learner
• Commitment, adaptable
• Working in a very diversified staff with different culture and perception
• Good analytical thinking
• Well discipline
• Good communication skill
• Good teamwork player

What is youth – lead enterprise means - It concerns mainly on youth leadership like

• Giving youth the chance to learn, practice, implement selective business options.
• Offer youth meaningful role and empowering them to take ownership of activities in order
to help young people feel more respected and committed to programming
• Providing creative, holistic intervention for youth that encompasses basic literacy skill,
business development, financial skills and work readiness skill.
• Offer youth a chance to learn from the community members and each other
• Enhance partnership with stockholders through proactive engagements in network building
How to work with the private sector for youth employment?

• Identification of potential private sectors based on the sectors they are implementing with
basic selection criteria set by the organization like
▪ Its coherence with the government socio-economic strategy
▪ Relevancy of the target group for our project
▪ Feasibility in relation to achievements of the specific objective
• Gaps in the private sector observed both technical managerial , and financial including
raw/inputs materials
• Work on how to create demand from the private sector by doing on demand- driven
approach
• Creating relevant curriculum with the consultation of the TVET institutions based on the
agreed needs of the private sector
• Conduct trainings for TVET college workers hon how to include the agreed points and basic
ideas on the pointes to be included like employability, life- skill and business
/entrepreneurship skills for the teachers

What is the core area of private sector development?

• Skill development
• SMEs Promotion – by increasing and strengthening its competitiveness of the local
enterprise
• Financial service – Achieving financial inclusion by creating access to local FSPs who offer
credit, saving, leasing and others
• Resource efficiency – promote efficient use of resources through production methods and
other VC analysis methods

The demand (pull factor) model includes the following elements

• The nature of the work

• The type of skill
• Credentials and training needs
• The numbers and timing of employment

How we can select the sectors?

• PPP platform
• TVET human and technological capacities – TOT , training arrangement between local
stakeholders ( training centres ), curricular revision based on the need of the market
• Training MSEs with large factories
• Clustering of existing MSEs with local and international markets (market linkage )

How to approach the new cultures in the team you are leading

• Promote inclusiveness and diversity

• Good communication method
• Strong team working and team building
• Treat others what they want to be treated

Main criteria of the priority sectors for intervention

 • Target area – based on the employment observation capacity, unemployment rate and
beneficiary needs
• Employment – employment and wage level, particularly for youth and women
• Size of the sector and its relevance to the target group -how labour intensive is the sector
• Working upgrading potential
• Intervention impact

Main Gaps observed for rapid employment creation

• Technical and soft skill

• Creating an enabling environment

Why are youths excluded from access to formal financial services?

Access to financial and social assets is a crucial contributing factor to help youth makes their own
economic decisions and escape poverty, but youths are excluded because of the following reasons

• Low financial capabilities (competencies, skills, abilities)

• Legal restrictions and regulatory environment – not youth-friendly (interest rate, collateral,
working premisses …)
• High transaction costs
• Negative stereotypes about youth
• Inappropriate and inaccessible products and services

Providing young people financial services can promote entrepreneurship and asset building and
enhance sustainable livelihood when they are complemented with the training of entrepreneurship,
financial literacy, mentorship opportunities

To overcome the barriers and to achieve successful youth financial inclusion requires a multi-
stakeholder approach that engages

• Government ( including policymakers, regulatory and line ministers )

• FSPs
• Youth-serving organizations and other
• Youth

Building Economic opportunities for youth

• Generating viable economic opportunities for youth remains a severe problem. It needs a
holistic approach to ease the challenges of youth by using ate
At individual level
At organization level
Government level

If we use the holistic approach, we can create enabling environment and remove barriers to youth
engagement on livelihood creation, entrepreneurship, and productivity

The key here is how this holistic approach is designed and implemented. Thee principles

By improving training, skill development, and education

Link young people with the existing real opportunities that exist in the market
Role of FS and education to help the young people