Trainers Vacancies in The UNDP Armenia

Source: www.jobs.undp.org

 

Background

UNDP Armenia, with financial support from UK Good Governance Fund, and in partnership with the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development and OxYGen Foundation, is implementing the “Women in Politics” project aiming at advancing political participation of women and youth leadership in local governance processes.

The project objectives are:

• Research on policy gaps and perceptions for women’s political participation;
• Women empowerment through leadership schools, pre- and post-electoral support, setting female-led integrity islands, etc.;
• Strengthening the role of political parties for inclusiveness and gender equality;
• Facilitation of bottom-up policy dialogue and networking events;
• Advancing public discourse, awareness raising and advocacy campaigns on gender equality;
• Advancing youth leadership though upscale of UNDP’s “I AM the Community” youth leadership model, and engaging youth in community democratization and development processes.

Throughout the implementation of this program, UNDP will combine conventional and innovative approaches, allowing room for experimentation and testing of new solutions with application of design thinking and user-centric approaches.

For capacity development of project beneficiaries including women, youth, representatives of local self-government bodies and political parties the project is planning numerous training sessions and workshops in Yerevan and in ten regions of Armenia.

To that end, UNDP Armenia creates a roster of qualified trainers/consultants who will provide sessions within the following broad topics:

• Gender Equality and Women Empowerment;
• Community Development and Local Self-Government processes;
• Participatory democracy
• Evidence-based Policy Making
• Management and Leadership.

The trainer(s) will work under overall supervision of the Programme Manager, direct supervision of the Project Task Leader and in close cooperation with the project team.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

The overall objective of the assignment is the capacity development of women, youth, representatives of government (at all levels) and political parties on the aspects of community development, policy design, local democratization affairs.

The incumbent can apply for one or more topics mentioned or fields of assignment. Principles of adult learning, with strong focus on experiential learning, shall be at the core of the assignment.

 

To develop training materials, exercises and distributing materials

In close collaboration with the respective Project Task Leader and the project team the incumbent will develop training modules, which shall include: planned session’s agenda; profile of training/workshop participants; concept of the sessions describing the logic, approach and  outline and format of the planned sessions; description of interactive exercises in ‘learning  by doing‘ approach; pre-and post-evaluation forms and handout material on one or more topics presented in the table below. The modules shall be discussed and agreed on by UNDP team:

 

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