JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Hanoi, Vietnam

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed term, 2 years with possible extension

INTERNAL JOB GRADE: C2                         

DEPARTMENT and TEAM: Goal 2: Social Accountability and Empowered Citizens – Oxfam in Vietnam

ANNUAL SALARY:  

VND 579,293,760 to VND 888,245,530

HOURS (FTE): 37.5/week

LOCATION:

Hanoi, Vietnam (with frequent travel to the Mekong Delta provinces)

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Oxfam Confederation currently has 21 member organizations working in 79 countries. We share a vision of a just and sustainable world. A world where people and the planet are at the center of our economy. Where women and girls live free from violence and discrimination. Where the climate crisis is contained. And where governance systems are inclusive and allow for those in power to be held to account.

Oxfam in Vietnam believes that a reduction in poverty, injustice, and inequality will occur through the interaction between active citizens, accountable states and responsible private sector, and that it is fundamental to Vietnam’s development. Oxfam in Vietnam contributes to a shift from the current growth-based development model to a Human Economy that cares about People and the Planet.

All our work is led by our core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness, Courage, Solidarity and Equality.

JOB PURPOSE:

To provide technical leadership and delivery assurance for inclusive, gender responsive and market-relevant Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), under  Oxfam’s project “Strengthened and Inclusive Access to Training and Skills” (SIATS).

The role is primarily a technical specialist function.  Project or partner management responsibilities may be assigned where required, but the core accountability is to ensure that the project’s TVET approach remains technically sound, inclusive, evidence-based, market-responsive, and aligned with the approved theory of change, PMF, and implementation plan.

ROLE REPORTS TO

Senior Programme Manager – Governance

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS POST

N/A

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

1)Technical leadership and quality assurance:  Lead technical quality assurance for the SIATS TVET approach, ensuring that project strategies, methodologies, tools, and partner workplans are aligned with inclusive, gender-responsive, and market-relevant TVET standards, the project theory of change, PMF, and approved implementation plan.

2) TVET system strengthening: Provide technical guidance to Oxfam, and its partners on strengthening inclusive TVET systems, including gender analysis, accessibility, trainee feedback, curriculum adaptation, trainer capacity, institutional learning and service improvement.

3) Demand-Supply linkage and labour market alignment: Lead technical integration of demand-supply linkages by connecting the needs, aspirations and feedback of vulnerable and marginalised women with PVET training provision, employer expectations, labour-market trends and private-sector demand.

4) Evidence-based adaptive programming: Support the effective design, rollout and use of M-score as a TVET system-strengthening mechanism.  Ensure that M-score and related feedback systems generate usable data on trainee experience, training relevance, accessibility barriers, job trends, and employment outcomes, and that the evidence is used by partners, employers, and Oxfam for adaptive programming and service improvement.

5) Partner capacity strengthening:  Strengthen the technical capacity for partners through coaching, mentoring, technical guidance notes, joint reflections, learning review, and practical tools on inclusive TVET, labour-market engagement, trainee support and gender-transformative approaches.

6) Learning, knowledge and insutitionalisation

Work with the MEAL, Knowledge Management & Communications Unit, document good practices, technical lessons, and evidence from implementation.  Contribute to inclusive and gender-responsive TVET practices through guidance and learning products and engagement with relevant TVET reform actors.

Technical inputs for donor engagement and resource mobilisastion: Provide technical inputs for Government of Canada (GAC) reporting, adaptive management discussions, donor updates, proposal development and resource mobilisastion related to TVET, skills development, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive labour-market systems.

Representation and external engagement: Represent Oxfam as a technical focal point on inclusive, gender responsive, and market-relevant vocational training and education TVET and advocacy to institutions, government, development partners, the private sector, Oxfam networks, and relevant national or sectoral platforms.

7) Other

• Ensure the implementation of Oxfam’s operational policies, procedures and guidelines (especially gender equity, child protection) in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
• Link country strategy to global initiatives, support, and contribute to global advocacy initiatives.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam International Secretariat needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity.

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• University degree/post-graduate on TVET, public policy, law, development, and/or management.
• Substantial expertise and experience of inclusive, gender responsive and market-relevant TVET system/process/policies and practices, linkage between TVET training and private sector demand.
• Substantial experience of conducting and managing evidence-based research, policy advocacy and influencing.
• Strong understanding of Vietnam’s TVET system including relevant institutions, policies, provincial training centers, and links between TVET and labour-market systems.
• Demonstrated experience in inclusive and gender-responsive TVET, including approaches that address barriers faced by ethnic minority women, women with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
• Experience and skills in planning, developing, managing and monitoring development programmes/projects (including design, capacity building, partnership management, community empowerment, fund raising, report writing, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, advocacy, inter-agency networking and coordination etc.); Experience in resource management e.g. people, finances, assets.
• Strong conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking; Ability to analyse development context and driving factors; Ability to ‘think politically’ by understanding motivations, pressures and challenges faced by different actors; Ability to influence others.
• Previous experience as a trainer or coach to strengthen the capacity of individuals or organizations and women’s economic empowerment.
• Good communications, presentation and facilitation skills; High level of written and spoken English and Vietnamese.
• Outstanding social and intercultural skills.
• Good computer skills (writing and spreadsheet programmes).
• Willingness to travel to project sites in all regions of Vietnam.