ILO NPC Resiliency National Expert Jobs 2023 – Zambia NGO Jobs.
ILO Zambia looking for “NPC Resiliency National Expert”.
Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before 8th Sept 2023.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. The ILO has 187 member states: 186 out of 193 UN member states plus the Cook Islands. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with around 40 field offices around the world, and employs some 2,700 staff from over 150 nations, of whom 900 work in technical cooperation programmes and projects.
ILO NPC Resiliency National Expert Jobs 2023
The ILO has published a job vacancy announcement on 1st Sept 2023 for qualified Zambians to fill in the vacant post of NPC Resiliency National Expert to be based in Lusaka, Zambia.
| Recruiter | International Labour Organization (ILO) |
| Position | NPC Resiliency National Expert |
| Location | Lusaka, Zambia |
| Country | Zambia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Three years |
| Application Deadline | 8th Sept 2023 |
ILO Job Vacancy 2023
Description Of Duties:
- Carry out an in-country needs assessment to assess, refine, and/or validate the proposed strategy for Outcome 2 and to inform the design and delivery of interventions. Provide support for designing a participatory approach to identify the needs of households vulnerable to child labor and forced labor in project areas, the communities and households that should be targeted by the project, how they should be reached; how the project can effect sustainable change; and how the context might affect the delivery, uptake, and outcome of the activities, including potential risks.
- Design and implement an area-based approach in mining communities producing critical minerals in two or more of the Northwestern, Copperbelt, Central and/or Luapula provinces taking into account strategic gender needs.
- Design prevention strategies that take into consideration future risks to children related to surges in the production, extraction, and transportation of critical minerals in Zambia.
- Assess the most significant obstacles that keep households of working children or children at high-risk of entering child labor in the mining sector from achieving sustainable livelihoods without depending on child labor, and design and implement strategies that address those obstacles and provide livelihood services to households of target children according to their needs.
- Contribute to the designing and implementing strategies on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), sector diversification, and productivity of Zambia’s workforce, including cooperatives and smallholder miners.
- Assist in addressing the strategic needs of children of vulnerable households, such as through the provision of formal and/or non-formal education, including mobile schools; health; and/or nutrition service.
- Provide support to youth of legal working age in vulnerable households, such as through the provision of vocational or entrepreneurial training to develop skills for employment in safe work outside of the mining sector. Provide support for workforce development assistance for adult youth up to age 21 in vulnerable households, such as the provision of vocational training for employment in safe work in the mining of critical minerals and assistance with job placement services in formal mining companies, through linkages with the private sector.
- Ensure support for the participation of women of vulnerable households in the workforce, including in the mining sector, and/or addressing their access to finance. Provide support for addressing the needs of adults of vulnerable households, such as increasing access to livelihood services and health services.
- Organise training programmes and awareness raising activities including gender mainstreaming to improve the understanding and knowledge of adult workers in vulnerable households of their labor rights and/or facilitating legal assistance if needed to reduce child labor and forced labor in critical minerals communities.
- Assists the local civil society and worker’s rights organizations to take efforts to reduce child labor and forced labor in the critical mineral communities, including by strengthening the labor environment for all workers through organization and action at the community-level.
Position in Organization:
- NPC Resiliency National Expert
- Grade: NOB
- Vacancy no.: DC/LUSAKA/NO/2023/14
- Publication date: 30 August 2023
- Application deadline (midnight local time): 8 September 2023
- Job ID: 11190
- Department: RO-Africa
- Organization Unit: CO-Lusaka
- Location: Lusaka
- Contract type: Fixed Term
- Contract duration: 1 year
Qualification & Experience:
- First level university degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Development studies or related field and strong knowledge on development issues particularly in Zambia.
- At least three years of experience in a position responsible for increasing resiliency of vulnerable households, reducing poverty, and/or strengthening access to and quality of social services is required.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with local government officials, community leaders, and villagers is required. Experience in working on issues relevant to the mining sector of Zambia is preferred.
- Experience in child rights, and child and forced labour issues.
- Experience in project management, administration, and implementation of grant/cooperative agreement requirements (including meeting deadlines, achieving targets, and overseeing the preparation and submission of required reports to the project donor).
How to Apply ILO NPC Resiliency National Expert Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://jobs.ilo.org/job/Lusaka-NPC-Resiliency-National-Expert-NOB-(DC)-Child-Labour-project/976086001/
The Closing Date: 8th Sept 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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