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Other in Service Courses with the ILO International Training Consultants
- Career Counseling, Vocational Guidance and Child Labour issues
- Computer Literate
- Small Business Development and Entrepreneurship
- Gender based Violence and sexual Exploitation at Work
- Implications of HIV/AIDS on social economic development of teenagers
Work Experience:
Volunteer – Programme Advisor - Commuity Initiative Empowerment Programme
Monrovia, Liberia
1. Take a lead in Strategic Planning Processes
2. Provide Training in Project Management
3. Provide Technical Advise in Fund Raising and Proposal Development
4. Provide support to policy development and implantation
5. Provide support in Project Monitoring and Evaluation
6. Provide support in report writing
National Programme Officer, Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organization (SLYEO)
(May 2005 - 6)
Key duties:
1. Programme Development
- Take the lead in developing a strategy and Programme Area Plan in Youth Livelihoods including an enterprise development component - as part of the development of the new Country Strategic Plan
- Contribute to the strategic planning process by facilitating needs assessments and participatory stakeholder workshops, involving volunteers and a range of other stakeholders
- Comprehensively assess organizations and agencies to determine their future potential as partners with SLYEO within the Youth Empowerment strategy. Identify how best SLYEO can contribute to the institutional needs of Community Based Organisations
- Contribute to raising the profile of SLYEO’s programme within Communities in Sierra Leone, networking with government agencies, donors and other international agencies.
- Identify and develop fundable projects and programmes from within the programme area plan; together with the Programme Director and Village AiD Africa Programme Coordinator, turn these into fundable proposals.
- Programme management: budgeting and tracking expenditure, implementation of specific activities, monitoring and evaluation, financial and narrative reporting.
2. Office Administration:
- Maintain appropriate files and documentation of all programme development, implementation and programme correspondence and activities
- Liaise with administrative staff, as appropriate, on the whole range of logistical support activities associated Project development, implementation and reporting
- Ensure that all donor contracts are complied with, including narrative and financial reporting
3. Other Duties:
- contribute to national promotional activities such as special events, newsletters and developing external reports, etc
- assist or take leadership in emergencies as required
- may include the supervision of support staff and deputising for the Programme Director or other colleagues as required
- Participate in processes for learning and experience sharing within West Africa region
- Document learning and collaborate with the Youth Alliance for Peace and Development (YAPAD) and other Advocacy teams in Sierra Leone
Capacity Building Officer , SLYEO Freetown (May 2002 to May 2004)
Duties:
(1) Work closely with NGOs identified for partnerships with SLYEO to ensure that:
- proposals submitted by the NGOs and draft agreements prepared by the staff members meet SLYEOs
requirements;
- NGO partners submit (progress and financial utilization) reports timely,and that the reports are of an acceptable technical quality;
- Perpare Training modules for staff and local communities
- Monitor the relevance of our training on the target beneficiaries and communities;
- Conduct monitoring and supervision visits to DFID supported projects implemented by both Government and
NGOs and also provide technical guidance to training units and curicuilum developer of the Ministry of
Education;
- Constraints in implementing agreement are identified and brought to the attention of the Director in a timely
manner.
(2) Systematically compile, update, manage and provide on request, school and district data based on agreed
Indicators;
(3) Prepare reports highlighting progress and constraints, and making appropriate recommendation with
respect to:
a) The distribution and usage of supplies
b) The implementation of NGO agreements
(4) Provide technical support and develop partnership with Government and other UN agencies-ensuring the
efficient use of project funds, supplies and CAG liquidation, monitoring and supervision of projects and
respond to emergency education situations and needs of displaced children, refugees and war torn communities.
Vocational Guidance and Small Business Officer – Women For International Peace and Arbitration – USA (WIPA-USA) Sierra Leone Chapter (October 2001 – April 2002)
Duties:
- Provide guidance, counseling and information to job and training opportunities in the field of vocational, Technical and Administrative skills, business management and career and trauma counseling especially for demobilized soldiers, war-affected youth, women and disabled persons;
- Work with the Ministry of Labour and Industrial relations to collect information from private and public training institutions as well as from NGOs, enterprises and other employers on training courses and apprenticeship possibilities;
- Liase and coordinate with career counseling departments in training institutions, schools, private recruitment agencies and NGOs;
- Communicate with employers on gender sensitivity in job advertisement, select and give advice on suitable applicants for them and on organisational behaviour and man power development needs;
- Do female job seeker registration;
- Give information sessions in schools and training institutions on the services of the Employment Information services centre, child labour issues and self employment in national development;
- Offer training on small business development to business vocational training institutions, and local business associations country wide;
- Assist the Co-ordinator with the day-to-day administration and development of the programme;
- Assist in the collation of all reports directed to the ILO Area Office in Senegal. Advice the Co-ordinator on all plausible working relationships that would be established with other organizations.
- Served as the focal point for the GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) for the Basic Education Programme
Resource Person/Trainer: for training of social workers, communities members of war devastated communities (November 1999 – January 2000) in areas of Trauma healing, conflict resolution, role of psychosocial support services and the counseling process in the recovery of post war Sierra Leone.
Organized by COOPI and by UNDP/NCRRR Preventive development programme.
Resource Person/Trainer: for training of members of Petit traders Union of Sierra Leone on local product marketing strategies and business entrepreneurship development supported by the ILO/ Ministry of Labour via the Peace consolidation, Capacity development and self employment promotion project components (2001/2002)
Resource Person for training of psychosocial caregivers, Career guidance and capacity building Officers
to Veteran/ex-combatants organized by the chaplain department of the Sierra Leone Military Force & Point
Man Ministries International U.S.A. (1999)
Human Rights Officer for Grassroots Empowerment for Self Reliance (GEMS) in Sierra Leone.
(Aug 1999 – May 2000)
Duties:
- Assist the Project Manager with the development and day-to-day management of the project
- Advice management on plausible collaborating Human Rights NGO partners and related working Government Ministeries
- Train teachers, medical practitioners and nurses in displaced persons camp and war devastated communities on on their civic rights and responsibilities
- Identify, Prepare budgets and oversee the use of local available resources for the implementation of Human Rights, Peace building and community development programmes involving children, women and youths earning.
- Monitor and reports human rights violations in communities and nationally in collaboration with other human rights organisations
- Perform and supervise counseling sessions on different social problems held in displaced camps and communities by staff members of the team and also develop trauma and stress reliefing activities for the children.
- Assist with analysis and collation of report both for internal use and for international donors and organisations
Training and Small Scale Business Development Officer for the Civil Society Movement (CSM) of Sierra Leone (Voluntary Job) (April – July 1999).
Duties:
- Perform trauma healing and counseling services in displaced camps.
- Liase with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and NGOs intervening in youth empowerment programmes
carry out awareness raising programmes on youth livelihood and participation in governance and other decision-making processes.
- Identify and train capable community mobilsation persons and youth volunteers in the communities.
Organise small business and agricultural development units for young people within the displaced camp as a way of ditraumatisation and earning of living for the displaced persons
Science Teacher & Guidance Counsellor: Sierra Leone Muslim Brotherhood School, Freetown (1998)
- Taught Chemistry, Health Science, Biology and Mathematics to basic education level classes (JSS) and to senior secondary school classes.
- Offer vocational guidance and career counselling to pupils of all classes and to special group of pupils with
psychosocial and educational problems
- Assist in writing concept papers and project documents for soliciting of funds for school projects-sent to NGOs, the Board and donor community etc.
Extra Curricular activities:
- Facilitator, Mano River basin Youth Parliament – Guinea , Conakry
- Consultant for the development of VSO’s Programme Area Plan and Youth Livelihood Programme In Sierra Leone (2004)
- Committee Member on the Development of National Youth Policy (2003)
- Researcher, Youth poverty and Development (National Forum for Human Rights 2003)
- Reference focal point for GTZ Basic Education Programme for Children and Youths (2003 – to date)
- Consultant for the development of Voluntary Services Overseas’ – Sierra Leone (VSO) Briefing Package for International Volunteers (2004)
- Contracted by Network on Collaborative Peacebuilding In Sierra Leone (NCP-SL) to carry out Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) of their target communities verify the questionnaires completed by its members for the NCP-SL Directory.
- Chairman, Youth Awareness programme - 2002
- Member Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Working Group, Western Area 2002 – to date
- Secretary & Rappoteur-Consultative Conference on the Peace process after 10 Years of Rebel war for displaced and war wounded victims of Sierra Leone, April 1999. (A contribution to the Lome Peace Agreement).
- Member steering Committee for the establishment of the national Youth Council in Sierra Leone (August 2004 – to date)
- President Kailahun District Student Union - Sierra Leone (97/98)
- Vice President, Biological Student Association, Njala University College (University of Sierra Leone)1992-1994
Referees:
1. Mustapha Kabbah
Admin Officer
Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organisation
24 Main Motor Road, Congo Cross, Freetown
Sierra Leone
E-mail: ceciliasaidu@yahoo.ca
2. Mr. Wahab Lera Shaw
Programme Specialist Youth
UNDP
Wilkinson Road, Freetown
Sierra Leone
Email:wahab.shaw@undp.org
Tel: 232 76 604444
3. Madam, Aminata Koroma
Social Advisor
Basic Education Programme
German technical Cooperation (GTZ)
33/37 Frazer Street Off Wilkinson Road,
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: 232 76 744674 / 232 33 320095
Email: ndola55@yahoo.com
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