Qualifications: Bachelor degree in forestry or similar field and 5 years experience in training planning; designing training courses in topics related to land and forest management (including agroforestry); quality control and assessment of undertaken trainings.
Starting date: January 2012
Project site: Central Highlands with shorter inputs in Hanoi.
General information:
Forests for Livelihoods Improvement of the Central Highlands Project (FLITCH) is funded by Asia Development Bank (ADB) and Trust Fund for Forestry (TFF) (co-financed by Finland, the Netherlands and Switzerland).
Main objectives of the Project are:
- Reduce poverty; narrow the gap in terms of incomes for poor households compared with average households in the areas dependent on the forests to earn their living of 6 provinces in the project area, in which special attention is drawn to ethnic minority community.
- Strengthen capacity of management and use of forests and forest land in the project area, especially capacity in management and skills of forestry production for community and households.
- Sustainable Forest management and conservation of biodiversity with the participation of the community, State and private organizations
- Development of production forests of high productivity, planting protection forests, special-use forests and other silvicultural activities to increase capacity of supplying wood and forest products, increase income for the people, contribute to protect the environment and conserve biodiversity.
- Resolution of essential needs on infrastructure for social and economic development in the project area such as roads, clean water for daily use, clinics, schools, small-scale irrigation structures and cultural houses of the community
- Contribute to improve livelihoods for the forest-based people living in 60 selected communes of 6 provinces of the project area.
- The project has four components – A. Sustainable management and development of forest resources; B. Improvement of livelihoods, C. Capacity building; D. Project management and implementation.
Tasks:
1. Assist in compiling a combined training program for the project implementation period for all training entities (TNU, PFS, PPMUs. CPMU, TA).
2. Assess yearly training plans - as well as content, relevance, selection criteria for trainees, quality of trainers of individual training programs as part of co-management of FLITCH’s capacity development program.
3. Follow up on quality of training and together with CPMU monitor and report on impact of training.
4. Support all entities in curriculum development.
5. Support all entities in development of training material and extension material.
Deliveries: (a) Training Program 2012-2015 including TOR for service providers, curriculum for the high priority courses that need to be undertaken during the period – and amore general plan for the remaining period (b) a cost calculation indicating funding needs (based on relevant cost norms) (c) extension material - together with consultant colleagues and service providers (d) recurrent monitoring reports on training impact and effectiveness.
CV to be sent to Phuong - [email protected] [1] - before December 29, 2011.