Summary:

Uganda’s leading digital job-matching platform and career services company, BrighterMonday Uganda, has designed a youth skilling and employment impact project to improve employability of Ugandan youth and transition them into dignified employment. To support this goal, we seek a Youth Engagement Associate to provide CV services to our clients and partners. You will also champion our project  goal of upskilling 5 million young people.

BrighterMonday Uganda’s Mission

Connecting Africans to Opportunities and alleviating unemployment on the African continent through digital solutions.

Brief Job Summary:

Your mission is to provide CV services to our clients and partners. You will also champion the ‘Young Africa Works’ goal of upskilling 5 million young people.

Key Duties & Job Responsibilities

Organizational 

• Engage and deliver exceptional CV writing and career counselling services to Job seekers
• Develop course contents for curriculums
• Manage the activities of training partners, provide support where needed and ensure accurate reporting.
• Proactively seek and grow opportunities to increase our CV services Clientele.
• Prepare and maintain reports related to Learning & Development Activities.

Facilitate Soft-Skills Training. 

• Advise on best approach to CV services.
• Conduct in depth analysis in providing holistic solutions to clients.
• Prepare timely reports for training partners and solicit feedback.
• Ensure a proper monitoring and evaluation system that measures training programmes.
• Field content driver for www.brightermonday.com/youthengagement

Functional 

• Support the team in ensuring that the overall goal and specific objectives of the youth engagement component of Brightermonday are achieved.
• Facilitate the Brightermonday Uganda Soft Skills Training online and in physical classes.
• Support the CV and Cover Letter writing workshop in the soft skills training and other youth engagement activities.
• Develop innovative initiatives to make the LMS and training sessions more robust and drive conversion.
• Plan and coordinate ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions, instructional design and LMS coordination to reach all learner segments.
• Work closely with the support team to ensure smooth training operations online and offline
• Manage the project operations, ensuring quick issues resolution.
• Prepare reports and conversion strategies for Soft Skills training across all platforms.
• Support on partner reporting and relationship management.
• Provide content for the website as a tool for post-training engagement.
• Provide operational support for monitoring and reporting of the soft skills training.
• Support end- to-end youth engagement event management
• Recruitment, training and management of Facilitators,Training and Data-Entry Volunteers support team in focus districts
• Provide technical inputs to/ during planning, organising and  coordination of project monitoring processes, assessments, surveys, research and evaluations

KPI’s to measure success

• Increased brand awareness in Uganda
• Quality of CVs Reviewed
• Feedback from Clients
• Excellent team spirit and measurable team contributions (internal)
• L&D operational support efficiency

Key Relationships

• Youth Engagement & Learning team
• Strategy team
• Monitoring and Evaluation team
• Recruitment team
• Business Intelligence team
• Products team
• Finance team
• Marketing team

Person Specifications:

Qualifications: 

• B.Sc or B.A in Business related fields. M.Sc/MBA desired

Years of Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including internal leadership, and sponsor organizations.
• Skills required to perform the Job:
• Comfortable working with Clients
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial, comfortable with ambiguity and adaptive to
• Change with the ability to use an agile approach to execute in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to stakeholders across multiple levels
• Strong stakeholder skills at all levels of the organization.
• Proficient in Google Slides, Sheets, MS Office Suite with PowerPoint skills