Organization Overview
VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.
Role overview
The Ideal person will train and advise Students and Teachers on various topics on Entrepreneurship, Support staff by building their capacity on delivering courses on Entrepreneurship, Provide practical entrepreneurial skills to the tutors and students, Also Will support the already established and Create new groups of entrepreneurship for building more capacity and mentorship.
Skills, qualifications, and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business management or social science, Entrepreneurship, Economics or related is required
- Background on training, education or facilitation skills will be the most advantageous factor for this position.
- Communication – communicates at various levels depending on the audience and content of message, communicates the rights message, excellent in communication consistency between partners in the project
- Ability to inspire young people is highly recommended. Good inspirational speaking skills will be added advantage
- Analysis and creative problem-solving – proactive to deliver solutions to challenges, ability to identify the interest of the EEVT project and VETA. Ability to analyse and quickly grasp the fundamentals of a need. Able to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Flexibility – ability to be proactive in changing the environment of working, business management, entrepreneurship is desirable, experienced on people management and ability to work in a multinational with flexibilities of cultural differences.
Allowance
As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full time basis. VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency. This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home. You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.
Accommodation
VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.
Some background about VSO
Much has changed since VSO started 60 years ago. We’ve gone from being a UK charity to a truly global development organisation. In 2016/2017 alone, we worked with over 7,000 volunteers from all over the world and from all backgrounds to deliver services that had an impact on the lives of almost 2.6 million people in the 24 countries where we work. Our programmes focus on the areas of health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We believe progress is only possible when we work together and that strong partnerships are crucial to delivering positive change. That’s why we work with over 500 partner organisations, from local and national governments, to businesses, NGOs, funders, charities and community groups. Currently, over 30% of our people are recruited from within the country in which they work, and we continue to grow the share of community and national volunteers involved in our programmes. We also send increasing numbers of volunteers from one developing country to another. However, our vision has remained the same; to build a world without poverty.
