Capacity development and training is a core activity and central to the success of the UCARE Project. The Training and Capacity Development Coordinator will play a vital role in building knowledge, skills and capacity to address unpaid care and domestic work issues in Ghana. The Training and Capacity Development Coordinator will work closely with all partners, team members and stakeholders to ensure project training and capacity development activities are efficiently delivered and well-coordinated.

Key responsibilities and deliverables:

• Carry out training needs assessments of government units/departments and partners and document capacity gaps and needs for building capacity/training
• Identify/formulate capacity building strategies/plan, implementation approaches and define activities for implementation
• Identify institutional partnerships to advance and meet project training and capacity development objectives
• Contribute to creating a learning culture and communicate importance of learning and capacity building to internal and external stakeholders
• Identify learning methodologies and tools that most effectively build the capacity of team members and partners
• Develop and source materials, including but not limited to manuals, participant guides and …
• Lead and coordinate various training sessions, lunch and learns, brown bags, and other types of learning opportunities
• Develop a system to track and monitor training attendance, training program completion, and knowledge acquisition
• Facilitate training workshops and meetings, develop agendas to achieve stated objectives, document progress, agreements, and issues, and providing follow up assistance as required
• Schedule and manage internal and external training events, activities and logistics
• Develop training activity budgets and track expenses
• Develop a bank of training resources, consultants, service providers to design and deliver training workshops

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Organizational Development, Education, Management, Psychology or related field
• 5 years of work direct experience in a training and capacity development role
• Demonstrated practical experience conducting training needs assessments, and designing and delivering training programs
• Demonstrated experience applying adult education and learning approaches; coaching and mentoring experience a plus
• Ability to integrate gender equality objectives into training design and delivery
• Strong workshop facilitation skills and training materials development experience
• Understanding of project management processes, strong skills using MS Word suite of software