Training Advisor

1. TECHNOSERVE BACKGROUND:

TechnoServe, Inc. is an international non-profit economic development organization founded in 1968.  Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, communities and countries. The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. However, they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing…when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off. For more information, visit www.technoserve.org

2. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

TechnoServe has assisted over 200,000 smallholder coffee households in East Africa to improve their incomes by increasing the quality of the coffee they produce, boosting their coffee production and linking them to premium markets. Going forward, TechnoServe is developing innovative approaches and partnerships with corporations to enable more smallholder coffee households in East Africa achieve livelihood security. In Ethiopia alone, TechnoServe has supported over 150,000 smallholder coffee households to improve their coffee productivity and to improve overall coffee business for more than 12 years. TechnoServe runs a number of coffee programs in Ethiopia and all of these programs are greared towards supporting smallholder farmers to improve their livelihood through adoption of coffee production and processing best practices.

3. PRIMARY PURPOSE

The Training Advisor will work closely with all coffee department as a cross-cut to ensure programmatic excellence in this critical area of work, by providing technical support in the development, delivery and facilitation of high quality training and ensuring adoption and compliance with TechnoServe’s minimum training standards.

4. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure the coffee initiative training activities meet TechnoServe’s minimum training standards.
• Support the development, customization and /or review of training curricula.
• Coordinate with different team to validate training needs and integrate training adoption indicators to program level M&E tools.
• Work closely with the supervisor and other concerned to leverage TechnoServe’s core training products whenever possible.
• Monitoring the effective implementation of procedures for the training and professional development of field level project staff performing client related training functions on behalf of the organization.
• Facilitate Training of Trainer in key projects as well as program.
• Observing and providing constructive feedbacks for staff at all level conducting training.
• Overseeing field level trainings and assisting Agronomy Advisor’s in observation.
• Providing support to the learner as required and reviewing their progress with them on a regular basis.
• Conducting post training survey, training satisfactory and other surveys.
• Participate in area level meetings on behalf of the team.
• Reviewing the current training and competence scheme, making recommendations for improvement and implementation.
• Translate or support in translation and putting training into context for all training materials for each coffee project on timely basis – This includes translation of all projects materials to Amharic and Afan Oromo languages.
• Reviewing the translated training materials to the standard needed.
• Perform all other related duties as required and assigned by immediate supervisor.

• Bachelor’s Degree in social studies and other related field with at least 5 years’ experience in managing a training program
• Passion for developing people, mentoring, training and coaching.
• Experience in facilitating training and mentoring new trainers as required.
• Extensive translation skill from English to local languages and vice versa.
• Proven experience in designing training curricula.
• Familiarity with Adult learning methodology
• Outstanding verbal and written communication in English Amharic and Afan Oromo.
• Ability to lead via influence and to communicate effectively across a range of seniority levels
• Excellent computer skills (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills