WfWI invests in women in 17 conflict-affected countries around the world as they rebuild their lives. We invest where inequality is the greatest by helping women who are forgotten— the women survivors of war and conflict. We help them learn the skills they need to rebuild their families and communities, and to transform their lives. The women in our direct delivery programs engage in community cohorts who learn to save, build businesses, understand their rights, improve their health, and participate towards transformation for themselves, their families, and communities. For 30 years, WfWI has used an integrated approach to innovate; we are a learning organization that listens to data, our country teams, and women themselves to constantly evolve and improve the way we work. 

Since 2002, we have operated in five provinces of Afghanistan. Participants of our program receive vocational training for jobs like animal husbandry, tailoring and knitting, participating in savings and self-help groups, and learn to invest in their businesses as they receive stipends. Through this curriculum, they prepare to earn an income and invest in savings. They are trained by our team to embrace and defend their rights, support decision-making in their households, and create social change in their communities.

WfWI also supports local organizations to gain access to resources and capacity-strengthening that improves their ability to respond to their organization and their community’s self-identified priorities. Globally, WfWI advocates to ensure that equitable participation, voice, and leadership are central to the long-term changes we’re driving. Through listening to women survivors of war and conflict, we build the evidence base to engage decision-makers in a transformative effort to sustain an enabling environment.

Purpose

Plan, develop and deliver training on basic business skills to groups of Women for Women program participants.  Assess the educational level and literacy of the women and deliver material that is appropriate and applicable to the vocational training that will follow. 

Engagement

• Collaborate with the Social Empowerment, and Vocational Skills trainers to plan course material, schedule participants, synthesize material and maximize training results. Work closely with and assist the Program Officer and the Monitoring and Evaluation team to coordinate, plan and prepare training, assess and update training materials and tools and collect data from the participants.
• Collaborate with SE Trainers on scheduling to ensure that all participants receive the full cycle of basic business skills training courses. 
• Communicate with local leaders or other local partners involved in business activities throughout the community. 
• Meet with colleagues to share techniques, strategies, success stories, difficult cases, supplemental materials, etc.
• Maintain daily attendance records of participants and provide to supervisor.
• Contact participants who do not attend sessions if needed to determine whether they should be dismissed from the program.

Delivery

• Assess training material needs, take stock/inventory and ensure training equipment and tools needed are readily available.
• Deliver basic business skills training in accordance with established training curriculum and program guidelines - business basics training (two sessions); Entrepreneurship (one session); planning (two sessions); Selling (two sessions); Bookkeeping (two sessions); Financing Your Business (two sessions).
• Review current business skills training curriculum in view of the particular needs of women in Afghanistan and prepare lesson plans that are appropriate and applicable.
• Assist with gathering feedback on courses and assessing training material and tools.
• Assist with reviewing and modifying lesson plans to improve upon training curriculum as needed.
• Gather data on participants as needed and provide regular reports to the Program Officer.
• Record information about training sessions in trainer journal – including session topics, reactions to material, challenges, and other relevant issues.
  Recommend women for dismissal from the program according to organizational guidelines

Other Responsibilities

Other Duties within competencies and expertise as agreed with Country Director.

The duties, responsibilities and activities of this job description may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time.

All WfWI staff and contractors/consultants are required to adhere to WfWI’s Code of Conduct, Safeguarding, Anti-Fraud and Corruption, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) policies, and to WfWI’s:

Leadership Principles                                 Organizational Values

Decisive                                                                       Empowerment

Accountable                                                                Integrity            

Courageous                                                                 Respect

Adaptable                                                                   Resilience         

Inclusive

Required:

• Undergraduate degree, specialized training, computer & software system use. first work experience or internship. Capacity to process transactions or services.
• At least two (2) years of relevant work experience, preferably with experience in training and/or teaching adults.
• Must be knowledgeable of business practices in the local area and capable of providing proper advice and guidance.
• Must be attuned to the particular situation and needs of the women in the program so as to give proper advice.
• Good administrative and organizational skills.
• Good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team.
• Basic computer skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email.
• Fluency in local language required; English language skills an advantage.

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