POSITION DESCRIPTION

Position Purpose: Provides leadership in developing and maintaining a training program that contributes to the Post’s goal of nurturing and supporting resilient, culturally sensitive, responsible and able Volunteers. Often shares duties with and works through others who directly implement training activities (e.g. at Pre-Service Training (PST), works through PST Training Director and Coordinators for technical, language and cultural training and logistics and homestay arrangements; at In-Service Trainings (ISTs), works with Program Managers and Program Assistants (PAS)). Fundamentally plays a leadership role to assure quality in all 3 phase training program activities.

Job Number: PC 15 001

Element 1: 3-Phase Training Program Design, Materials Development, and Home-Stay Preparation Collaboratively plans a training program in which technical, language, health, safety, and cross-cultural components are properly sequenced and integrated, ensures that sessions are designed to be delivered in a participatory and experiential manner, confirms that community members and staff are prepared to receive and host PCTs/PCVs.

Duties:

Curriculum and Materials Development

1. Produces, in collaboration with other staff, a calendar of training events that encompasses the Volunteer’s two years of service.
2. Works with Program Managers, PAs, PCvTs and PCVs to develop workshop curriculum, training manuals and training events to address core competency topics such as food security, appropriate technology, and HIV AIDS.
3. Determines how training sessions and their sequencing might be improved to better prepare and support PCTs and PCVs. This includes holding regular TDE sessions with program staff, reviewing and advising on improvements to learning objectives and their sequencing, and visiting Volunteers and counterparts in the field to evaluate training outcomes at Kirkpatrick level three and four.
4. Ensures training sessions are designed in a sufficiently participatory and experientially-based manner.
5. Ensures that cross-cultural, technical, language and health and safety training are integrated whenever possible.
6. Assists programming staff in the design of practicum learning assignments that immediately follow PST (i.e. Phase 2 implementation)
7. Develops and maintains a library of training materials.

Training Site Preparation

1. Holds planning meetings with PC staff to determine community and training center selection criteria and then sees to it that an appropriate training site(s) and community(s) are selected and prepared for PST and other training events.
2. Guarantees for center-based sessions at PST, IST, and other training events that there is a sufficient amount of quality training materials and supplies, that equipment is functioning, that the room layout and furniture is appropriate, and that PCT/PCV accommodation meets Peace Corps standards.

Element 2: Training Staff Development
Prepares trainers, training coordinators and other support staff for their roles and responsibilities; maintains communication with all parties involved in training; consults with senior staff, especially Program Managers, to make sure the training program will/is adequately preparing PCTs/PCVs for their life and work in their communities.

Duties:
Training of Trainers (TOT)

1. Works with the PST Training Director to design the General training of trainers.
2. Works with the Language and Culture Coordinator (LCC) to design the language training of trainers.
3. Assures that language trainers have acquired specific techniques (e.g. TPR (total personal response, drill, dialogue, game, fill-in-blank, sentence completion, recitation, translation) and are able to provide both audio learning (i.e. speaking and listening) and visual learning (i.e. reading and writing) opportunities.
4. Conducts sessions to build a well-functioning training team that includes PCVs, Program Managers, PAs, administrative and medical staff, language and cultural facilitators, and other support staff.

On-the-Job Coaching

1. Convenes trainer meetings as necessary during training programs to promote continuous session design and facilitation skill improvement and convenes all-training staff meetings to strengthen program coordination.
2. Provides guidance to Program Managers, PAs and PCVTs in designing, conducting and evaluating workshops for which they are primarily responsible.

Element 3: Training Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
Puts in place effective and efficient financial, logistical and general management systems, conducts periodic assessments through interviews and written surveys to assess PCT/PCV progress and satisfaction with training, conducts periodic direct observation and feedback concerning training staff performance, ensures that the PST Training Director submits timely periodic and final reports that document progress/achievements and areas requiring improvement.

Duties:

Training Management Systems

1. Devises and/or confirms that contractual, financial, logistical and general management systems are in order and that protocol requirements have been met.
2. Participates in the selection of new staff, as needed, to implement training and training management systems.
3. Provides crucial on-going communications to keep people informed of what is happening during training, to remind people of their roles and responsibilities and follow-up on assigned tasks, and to acknowledge, congratulate, and thank people for their achievements.

Budgeting

1. Participates in yearly "Integrated Planning and Budget System" (IPBS - March) for all training events.
2. Advises on and reviews Operating Plan (August) budgets for training events.
3. Works with program managers to develop budgets for special training requests to OPATS, SPA, PEPFAR the region and other funding sources.
4. Works with Director of Management and Operations, Director of Programming and Training and Program Managers on the creation of the annual training budgets for all general training events.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

1. Monitors the implementation of training and intervenes when/where needed to correct problems that arise in the sequencing and integration of sessions and to correct facilitation that is not being delivered in a sufficiently participatory and experientially-based manner.
2. Manages the implementation of a PCT/PCV assessment system in order to document competency attainment throughout the PCV’s service.
3. Participates in the determination as to whether a PCT should or should not be sworn-in as Volunteer.
4. Conducts an annual review of training operations, makes recommendations to the DPT, and coordinates the execution of training improvement plans.
5. Oversees yearly submission of the PC/G Training Status Report.

Supervision

1. Supervises Language and Cross Cultural Coordinator.
2. Supervises the PST Training Director.

Perform other duties that may be assigned to him/her by the DPT or his designate.

Qualification Required & Experience

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Academic Requirements and Training Experience:

•   University Degree
•   Flexibility and willingness to travel within Ghana
•   Experience as a trainer of adults and background in experiential learning and instruction in large group settings
•   Demonstrated ability and skill in mentoring others to assume greater responsibilities
•   Oral and written fluency in English
•   Experience working with foreigners, especially Americans
•   Ability to work within cross-cultural teams, including Trainees, Volunteers and staff
•   Knowledge of diverse customs and culture of Ghana
•   Ability to interact appropriately with Ghanaians at all levels of society
•   Demonstrated ability and skill in counseling with emphasis on group dynamics and interpersonal skills
•   Ability to supervise Peace Corps trainers and Trainees
•   Experience in conducting a Peace Corps Training of the Trainers (TOT) or other Ghanaian Trainers Workshop.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

•   Demonstrated increasing levels of responsibility in previous employment
•   Previous experience as a trainer with Peace Corps training programs
•   Experience with Community Based Training (CBT) designs
•   Ability to adapt easily to new changes from Headquarters
•   3 years of experience in program administration, evaluation, and supervision
•   3 years of experience in managing and supervising staff
•   3 years of experience managing budgets and accounts
•   Experience with current adult learning methodologies
•   Demonstrated training skills to design, implement and evaluate assets/community -based development programs
•   Demonstrated ability to interact with Ghanaian vendors and navigate cultural nuances to get the best prices for the best services.

Location: Accra

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants for this position must submit the following or the application will not be considered:

1) A detailed résumé or C.V. that includes:

•   Professional positions held identifying duties, responsibilities, dates of employment and reasons for leaving
•   Education and training, schools attended, dates of attendance, qualifications obtained
•   An accounting for periods of unemployment longer than three months
•   3 Professional references.
2) A cover letter
3) Any other documentation (e.g., essays, certificates, awards, copies of degrees earned) that addresses the qualification requirements of the position as listed above:

Write the job number and position title as email subject and send application packet to:-

jobs@gh.peacecorps.gov

Closing Date: 30 April, 2015