Workforce Development Intern – Chemonics Retour vers les opportunités

Title: Workforce Development Intern
Length of Assignment: Short-Term
Reports to: Tunisia JOBS WFD Advisor.

BACKGROUND

The Tunisia Jobs, Opportunities, & Business Success (JOBS) project is a five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The purpose of the JOBS project is to help Tunisian private companies increase their sales and exports sustainably to increase economic growth opportunities, including job creation. JOBS will achieve this objective through a multi-dimensional approach including:

• provide SMEs with needed resources and know-how for enhanced competitiveness.
• enhance workforce development by reducing the sills and employment gaps between the university and vocational training systems and the actual skills needed of Tunisian businesses.
• promote a more effective business enabling environment by working with the public and private sectors to promote policy and regulatory reforms; and
• communicate to Tunisians, especially youth, the importance of market-led economic growth and entrepreneurship to deliver needed resources to companies.

To support the main objective of job creation, JOBS’ workforce development (WFD) component aims to improve the match between the skills required by the labor market and the training output provided by institutions of higher education and vocational training and to better prepare youth for the labor market.

As part of its Year 3 strategy, JOBS will build an internship program to allow youth access to practical experience with JOBS partners.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The WFD Intern will support the WFD Advisor in the implementation of all the steps of the JOBS’ Internships Program. More specifically, s/he will provide technical support in the collection of internship partners’ needs, the planning and preparation of the internship’ position descriptions including skills required and metrics for each intern’s professional growth, collection and preselection of the candidates’ applications, the final selection and placement process, and required reporting on progress of all interns toward meeting the goals set in their position descriptions.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the supervision of the WFD advisor, the WFD intern will be accountable for the following:

• Organize and classify internship vacancies collected per required level of education and field of study.
• Contribute to the preparation and the edition of the internship’s description and specific requirements, as defined by each company.
• Identify and select the relevant education institution for each internship’s requirements.
• Ensure youth’ outreach in coordination with target education institutions to ensure that the internship’ applications forms are published and communicated at time to the students.
• Collect and screen students’ CVs to identify and short-list a pool of relevant candidates to be shared with the companies.
• Draft/finalize scripts for phone interviews to be used in the preselection process.
• Conduct phone interviews, preselection, and follow up with the candidates.
• Follow up the final selection of candidates with companies, providing the list of the selected candidates to the education institution and document the placement process between the candidate, the education institution, and the company.
• Track internships, support monitoring and reporting, communication, and evaluation of the process.
• Perform other tasks as may be required by the JOBS WFD Team Leader, DCOP, or COP

SUPERVISION AND REPORTING

The WFD intern will report to Tunisia JOBS WFD advisor.

LEVEL OF EFFORT AND PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

This short-term position is a full-time internship for about 4 months.

LOCATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The assignment will be in Tunis, with occasional travel to other regions.