IREX Looking for Career Preparation and Youth Leadership Development Consultant at United States Full Time

At IREX we strive for a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world—where individuals research their full potential, governments serve their people and communities thrive.  

But around the globe, persistent poverty, repression, and injustice prevent too many people form achieving their full potential.  To address these problems, we focus on people, not on vaccines, roads, or wells. We support individuals and institutions to create change in their own communities—and to create person to person bridges between nations.  

IREX works with partners in more than 100 countries in four areas essential to progress: cultivating leaders, empowering youth, strengthening institutions, and increasing access to quality education and information.  We are doers. Our decades of on-the-ground experience help us create greater impact, practical recommendations, and lasting partnerships.  

IREX seeks career preparation and youth leadership development specialists to assist with designing and implementing a range of career and workforce development training initiatives for youth in Iraq. This includes career preparation training modules and facilitation notes on youth programming, career services, and career preparation academies for youth. Topics of expertise may include the following in addition to other related needs as identified by IREX:

• Career coaching and youth professional development:
• Career coaching, including tools and strategies for identifying skills and interests and open-source assessments, and other methods to explore career pathways
• CV writing and LinkedIn for the Digital Age
• Networking Strategies & Skills
• Professional English for the Workplace
• Interview Preparation
• Presentation & Public Speaking
• Design Thinking
• Support to Entrepreneurs
• Basics of Project Management for Entrepreneurs
• Budget Development for Entrepreneurs
• Negotiation Skills
• Effective Social Media Marketing
• Digital Citizenship and Digital Safety
• Women in Leadership: Strategic Leadership Coaching

IREX will select multiple candidates, on an ongoing basis, to develop content for and/or facilitate training and coaching sessions, including PPTs, assignments, and handouts, review training materials, and follow-on activities with IREX’s project staff. Training will take place virtually, with a possibility of on-site training as well. Assignments will range in duration from less than one (1) week to one (1) year on a part-time basis; however, consultant contracts may include multiple training assignments within a single scope of work.

Duties And Responsibilities

IREX will assign selected consultants to develop or review training modules and facilitation guides and in some cases, serve as trainers for specific initiatives. Some training activities will require co-training among two or more selected trainers. Successful candidates will be able to establish and maintain collegial, supportive, and productive relationships with IREX staff and program participants, including Iraqi youth, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders.

Selected candidates will:

• Develop training curriculum, including PowerPoint and facilitator guides, for selected training modules
• Review and provide technical input to training materials already developed
• Deliver select training modules in coordination with IREX
• Apply appropriate youth or adult learning principles to design and delivery of training activities, materials and evaluation
• Provide IREX and partners with recommendations for follow-up training based on results of training interventions;
• Produce English-language reports, detailing activities undertaken within each training assignment, recommendations for future training, and other information as requested by IREX; and,
• Perform other responsibilities as requested

Skills And Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in career coaching, youth development, leadership development, and/or entrepreneurship
• Demonstrated experience as an entrepreneur or small/medium business owner for entrepreneurship and small business training modules
• Proven experience in curriculum development and training facilitation, including e-learning and remote training
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent English-language writing skills for training assignment reports are required; Arabic language skills a bonus but not required
• Strong interpersonal skills, particularly in multi-cultural environments
• Familiarity with or experience working in the MENA region preferred but not required

To Apply: Interested individuals should submit:

• CV that emphasizes relevant experience for this assignment
• Cover letter that includes daily rate in USD and explains how background fits into this position, plus specific areas of expertise related to position summary above

Prior to engagement candidates will be asked to provide references. Engagement will require a successful reference check. IREX may at its discretion ask for additional information. Issuing this call does not commit IREX to select any proposal/expert. IREX reserves the right, based on the availability of funding and consultant performance, to increase the duration and/or enter into subsequent contractual agreements with the selected experts without re-publicizing the opportunity.

Application deadline: Shortlisted candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all positions are filled or until further notice.

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