LOCAL TRAINER FOR GENERAL EMPLOYMENT

TERMS OF REFERENCE

YOUTH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (YEE) PROGRAM PLAN INTERNATIONAL – INDONESIA BUSINESS LINKS

I. BACKGROUND

Plan Indonesia in partnership with Indonesia Business Links (IBL) seeks to equip the disadvantaged (15-29 years) youth, mainly female with the necessary knowledge and skills and business mentoring that help them ready to enter the formal employment or set up their own micro businesses.

The program plans to establish partnerships with companies to support the program in providing training facilities, curriculum development, and internship and/or employment opportunities for the youth. A potential employer scan will be undertaken at the beginning of the program. In selecting the potential employer partners, the main criteria will follow the decent work concept and businesses with a high demand for youth employees.

In microenterprise development (MED), the program will adopt the value chain approach. The term “value chain” refers to the fact that value is added to preliminary products through combination of other resources (for example tools, manpower, knowledge and skills, other raw materials or preliminary products). Youth who choose the entrepreneurship track of the program will also be given access to loan, financial education and business mentoring. The loan service and financial education will be provided by the other Plan partners in the program.

In regard to curriculum development in which is divided into pre-curriculum development and curriculum development, IBL will partner with local trainer for each topic individually on pre-curriculum development and curriculum development. The local trainer will conduct the training on youths in each selected village. As the title of this TOR mentioned above, the local trainer will focus on General Employment skills.

II. OBJECTIVES

Conduct General Employment training to youth in each selected villages in Grobogan, Central Java

III. EXPECTED OUTPUT

1. Time sheet in conducting the training;

2. Weekly report on the training held.

IV. CRITERIAAll

local trainers should have minimum requirements as follow:

a. Having experience to conduct trainings to rural people using participatory concept at least in the last consecutive two (2) years

b. Have academic background in relation with community/rural development

c. Capable to show interpersonal skills

d. The position is a freelance (part-time) and fee-based

e. Intended to be a local (at least live in Semarang but most suitable in Purwodadi, Grobogan)

V. TIMELINE

14 - 16 September -- Training on Trainer in Semarang

19 - 24 September -- Training to Youth in 5 villages in Grobogan, Central Java (assisted by Master Trainers)

All local trainers will be entitled to receive a certain amount of fee depending on his/her experience conducting training. Those who are interested with this position should send the resume and cover letter to rio@ibl.or.id not later than September 12, 2011.