Specialist, Women Economic Empowerment, Logistics, Global Affairs and Public Policy, Executive Education Unit, Grant Position

Reports to: Officer, Participants’ Logistics

Purpose: Coordinate training logistics of Women Economic Empowerment program.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates and maintains logistics of all sessions, roundtables and events as scheduled and attends all sessions
• Ensures the successful operation of the platform in coordination with Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) IT team
• Develops a stakeholder management process by creating and maintaining a contact database and a communication plan that targets key stakeholder groups
• Follows up with participants to resolve online and offline challenges
• Prepares and disseminates announcements and shared information to participants and partners
• Prepares, disseminates and compiles participants’ evaluations; and assists in preparing participants’ evaluation reports
• Liaises with recruiting partners to ensure compliance with set criteria
• Monitors participants’ engagement in employment activities in alignment with project’s outcome
• Increases visibility and publicity of the project using various channels
• Regularly solicits stories, and notable developments or achievements
• Prepares various publicity material and obtains the required approvals
• Identifies promotional opportunities that are both strategic and creative
• Performs additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Experience:

• 3 years of experience in training coordination and capacity building workshops
• Working experience in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) and International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) is preferred

Skills:

• Excellent English and Arabic language skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent team work skills, collaboration, flexibility and organization
• Energetic, self-motivated and possess friendly attitude
• Good handling of ad-hoc multiple tasks with high-quality performance
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with online-based platforms such as zoom or others is required

This position is open until September 22, 2022

Placement is based on the candidate’s experience and skills. Only candidates who make it to the short list will be contacted.

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