Technical and Vocational Education and Training Consultant (TVET)

IOM is seeking a Technical and Vocational Education and Training Consultant (TVET) to support the Sudan Integrated Social Sector Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project (SISSIRP).

The consultant will work on rehabilitating and equipping 10 skills development facilities at technical schools and vocational training centres in Aj Jazira, River Nile, White Nile and Sennar states.

The assignment supports SISSIRP Output Indicator 1.1.3 on vocational training centres that incorporate climate change, green growth and gender approaches and are restored, upgraded and equipped.

Responsibilities

• Develop and submit an inception package, detailed one-month workplan, seven-day curriculum, facilitator guide, participant workbook, presentation slides, practical exercises, assessments, evaluation tools and draft IOM follow-up tools.
• Deliver a seven-day TVET leadership, management and entrepreneurship training, including attendance records, participant data, completed assessments, feedback, school management outputs and training results report.
• Submit a final consultancy report, including achievements, results, challenges, lessons learned and recommendations, together with the IOM follow-up plan, participant and assessment datasets, editable training materials, monitoring tools and all relevant source files.

Performance indicators

• Completion and approval of the inception workplan and seven-day training package.
• Successful delivery of the seven-day TVET leadership, management and entrepreneurship training.
• Evidence of improved participant knowledge through pre- and post-training assessments and completed school-management action plans.
• Complete attendance, participant, assessment and feedback records, disaggregated by sex, role, state and institution.
• Development and handover of a clear follow-up plan and monitoring tools for use by the IOM team.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in education leadership or management, technical and vocational education and training, business administration, organizational development, public administration, education or a closely related field.
• At least five years of relevant professional experience.
• Progressively responsible experience in TVET or skills development, school or institutional management, education leadership or institutional capacity development.
• Documented design and lead facilitation of at least three multi-day, competency-based programmes for TVET/education managers or senior professional staff.
• Practical experience in strategic and operational management, staff supervision, instructional leadership, adult learning, entrepreneurship or business fundamentals, action planning and results monitoring.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate gender equality and inclusion, safeguarding, climate and green TVET, asset stewardship, occupational health and safety, employer engagement and accountable administration.
• Fluency in spoken Arabic and strong professional English.

Benefits

• IOM covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy.