Senior Technical Advisor Job at Colleges and Institutes
Senior Technical Advisor Job at Colleges and Institutes…See Details on how to apply for the vacancies available at Colleges and Institutes.
Colleges and Institutes is a national association formed in 1972 to represent the interests of its member institutions to government and industry. Membership is voluntary and open to publicly funded community colleges in Canada or institutions that may also be referred to as an institute of technology, CEGEP, or University with a college mandate. CICan currently has 127 member institutions.
- Senior Technical Advisor
Responsibilities:
- Works closely with and support the work of the STA (Gender) to ensure that GE and the empowerment of women and adolescent girls are fully considered and integrated into ESP technical and management components, activities and planned results.
- Manages field office, external consultants and other experts.
- Leads or coordinates relevant committees, sub-committees, coordination working groups to ensure effective technical coordination, ensuring synergies across programs.
- Liaises with senior-level representatives on strategy issues, including ensuring effective coordination across another related programming.
- Provides technical support to international and Canadian partners, CICan Manager of Operations, Senior Program Officer (SPO) and other team members.
- Contributes to work plans, semi and annual reports, and technical reports.
- Ensures implementation aligns with ministerial regional and national policy priorities.
- Contributes senior technical level support to program monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and gender equality (GE) and related risk assessments.
- Participates in program inception missions and partnership selection processes.
- Lead ESP procurement process and installation of equipment at Tanzanian partner institutions.
- Coordinates with the Department of TVET, the Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA), Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MOST), and other Ministries as required.
- Ensures familiarity with regulatory bodies’ needs (qualification frameworks, program approval, accreditation processes, curriculum design requirements and approaches, PLAR systems, micro-credentials).
- Provides technical and policy advice/support to Ministries, TVET authorities, institutions and other key stakeholders.
- Provides technical and subject matter expertise on the design and delivery of gender-responsive and environmentally sensitive, demand-driven, CBET programs and courses.
- Ensures attention is paid to the cross-cutting themes of gender, the environment, and governance.
Qualifications;
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- Fluency in English.
- Graduate of a post-secondary institution or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated experience working in and/or with the Canadian college/institute system and networks.
- Significant knowledge of and experience with the Tanzanian TVET system and stakeholders.
- Extensive experience in skills training or TVET in the public and/or private sector with expertise in such areas as teacher training, planning, competency-based curriculum development and leadership and management training.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should CLICK HERE to apply.
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Application Deadline: 20th May 2021.
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