Job title: REACH Business to Youth Coordinator (temporarily)
Location: Hanoi and Northern region
Description of REACH:
REACH provides vocational training services for Vietnam’s most disadvantaged youth. REACH matches our training to the needs of the employers and the jobs that exist in the locations where they work. Since 2004 over 6,600 young people from vulnerable backgrounds have graduated from this vocational training program and are now successfully employed.
REACH offers 3-month intensive vocational training in:
- Hospitality
- Customer relations, Sales & Marketing (CRSM)
- Information technology (Web + Graphic Design)
- Nail Art
- Housekeeping
Job purpose:
To facilitate and develop linkages with businesses in the area, with the specific aim of improving the employment opportunities available to youth graduates of the REACH Program, working closely with Facilitators to improve not only the number of opportunities available but also the quality of opportunities. To critically evaluate the REACH program from both the perspective of the student and businesses. To develop a network of businesses who support and contribute to the REACH program.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate, develop and maintain linkages with businesses and other relevant organizations in the Northern Region
- Responsible for timely completion and quality of all market scan activities and communicate with business to identify new training courses
- Take the lead in establishing and reporting on surveys of students and businesses
- Monthly visits to empoyers that hire our students to monitor the job placements
- Coordinate all Alumni Club activities
- Support student Mobilization activities
- Organize and facilitate business meetings, seminars and visits
Job requirements:
- University degree in business or related field
- At least 3 years working experience
- Analytical and reporting skills
- Good computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint are required)
- Excellent communication and negociations skills
- Knowledge of labor market
- Strong team spirit
- Able to work effectively with students, Alumni, REACH staff and local businesses
- Good command of English
- Dynamic, enthusiastic, flexible
If you think you have the qualifications and qualities we are looking for and want to join REACH, please send us your CV and motivation letter (why you think you should be our Business to Youth
Coordinator) by email to [email protected] [1] or by post, to the following address before 19 March 2012.
REACH - Hanoi Office
Room 303, B Building, 347 Doi Can, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam
If you want to know more about REACH, please spend about 23 minutes to watch REACH’s
documentary film on Vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/9034953 [2]
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs will not be returned.