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Technical Advisor - Training Services
Opportunity Type: Job
Closing Date: June 22, 2009
Freedom from Hunger
United States
About the Organization:
Freedom from Hunger is an international development organization working in seventeen countries across the globe. Freedom from Hunger is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, nonsectarian organization classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charity. All donations to Freedom from Hunger are fully tax-deductible.
About the Job:
The Technical Advisor designs and writes training curricula focusing on interactive, dialogue-based, behavior-change education that will be delivered by diverse organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America to chronically hungry poor women and girls to protect and strengthen their financial and health assets.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Innovate new approaches to nonformal adult education, to train women living in poverty;
- Design training modules that enable diverse institutions (MFIs, NGOs, social franchises) to manage their social performance and improve their internal operations related to integrated services;
- Deliver training-of-trainer workshops to enable partners and Freedom from Hunger regional trainers to implement training modules and provide additional technical support and coaching to improve individual effectiveness;
- Manage the module development process from conception to field-testing and to distribution, including engaging subject-matter experts, Freedom from Hunger managers and other functional units (research & evaluation, document production);
- Monitor the performance of Freedom from Hunger regional trainers by applying training quality- control tools and report on progress to the Director, Training Services;
- Review, summarize and interpret information that promotes best practices within institutions offering integrated services, business and financial education and health protection to chronically hungry poor women and girls;
- Design and implement market research (participatory rapid appraisal and focus-group interviews) that assess the needs as well as the existing health and nutrition practices and business and household financial practices of mostly rural, illiterate women and their families in Asia, Africa and Latin America;
- Analyze market research data to determine challenges and identify strategies for adopting best practices at the individual and household level and establish indicators of potential knowledge and skill acquisition;
- Participate in the creation of training systems that can be standardized and implemented globally, including experimenting with alternatives to instructor-led training for Freedom from Hunger trainers.
Qualifications:
- Post-graduate degree, preferably in adult education, international development, microfinance, public health, economics or equivalent experience;
- Minimum three years experience in designing education curricula that apply adult learning principles and practices, ideally in business development, health and/or financial education for female entrepreneurs or youth with very low levels of literacy, and for training trainers;
- Experience delivering training in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on training and coaching trainers in topics related to health, microfinance (credit-led and savings-led methodologies) or small business development;
- Experience working with local organizations (MFIs, NGOs, or other) to provide services for poor communities;
- Experience with credit- or savings-led microfinance methodologies, preferably as an employee of an MFI or other local organization offering integrated financial and nonfinancial services;
- Minimum two years work experience in Asia, Africa or Latin America;
- Fluency in English and fluency in French or Spanish is required;
- Excellent planning, organizational and documenting skills;
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally up to 35 percent of the year;
- Must be able to work independently, under general direction of the Director, Training Services, and as a member of a team.
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