SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia
Background SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia is a non-governmental, non-political and a not-for -profit organization and is registered as an international, locally active organization. SOS CVE is implementing a project entitled ‘Innovative Training Partnership for More Youth Employment in Addis Ababa & Adama’. A total of 10,000 (disadvantaged young people will be directly targeted by the project. These are 6,000 young people in Addis Ababa and 4,000 in Adama. The project implementation in Adama started implementation from January 2022 onwards. It intends to make collaborations with selected TVET service providers in the target area. To make collaboration effective, it is essential to have understanding of market relevant fields and skills that will enable the unemployed and unskilled youth to quickly engage in self or wage employment opportunities. Hence, as one part of this assignment the consultant is expected to deliver inventory of skills required in the market, with particular focus to project targeted sub cities of Adama. As the trainings are going to be provided in the partnership with TVET colleges found in the target areas, the capacity of at least two colleges will be assessed based on the relevant fields of training identified. The assessment will particularly focus on the colleges’ situation on providing entrepreneurship and business skills development trainings alongside the hard skills.  Objective    To identify what type of jobs are available in the market that can be filled by youth who have got  short term intensive skill trainings that can be provided in  TVET service providers ,  with a special focus on highly demanded skills.  To provide an updated and authoritative overview of current labour market trends and snapshots of businesses’ opinions for youth who have got short term trainings.  An assessment of immediate priority skills needs in the priority economic sectors categorized into skill types, skill requirements , levels of specialization by key sectors.  To assess the capacity of TVET Colleges s in relation to the provision of identified market demanded trainings. To provide a detailed assessment of the capacity of government TVET colleges to deliver entrepreneurship and skill development courses by integrating it with hard skill trainings. Identification of other economically significant sectors where skills deficiencies might constrain future employment and economic growth.Scope of WorkThe consultant will: i. Find out the most employable skills training courses that can be offered as short term intensive trainings.Find out skill gaps in the local market that should be classified into:             a. Specific type of wage and self-employment opportunities (Jobs) available around the project target areas.              b. skill required, including attention to aspects of gender and location.ii.  Visit and hold discussions with private employers in the target areas to find out their attitude towards provision of short-term trainings, internships opportunities, and identify ways to create stronger linkages with the graduates.  iii. Assess the capacity of TVET colleges  to deliver quality market-driven skills training with a particular focus on:a. Center infrastructure: training classrooms, machines, washing and sanitary facilities, suitability of center location, availability of day-care, canteen etc.b. Instructors: Experience, level of education, trained or untrained, etc. c. Centre Management: centre structure, centre manager and other subordinate staff. d. Working relation with relevant government and private actors. iv. Specifically, find out the capacity gaps of TVET college  for the provision short term technical skills integrating with soft skills trains that include :a. Availability of short term trainings modules on identified fields b. The level of integration, experience of market relevant soft skills trainings (entrepreneurship and business management) in the short-term trainings. c. The readiness level of the colleges on: staff, materials and motivation towards integration of entrepreneurship and business management trainings both on short term and on regular programs. v. Identify the support provision mechanisms of the colleges for supporting self or wage employment of trainings. Vi. Assess other challenges and opportunities in the college for provision of short term intensive trainings.