OPEN MIND TANZANIA (OMT)
Services Offered: Youth Projects, Legal assistance, Training and Research
P.O. Box 4859, Dar es salaam, Kijitonyama, Gambia Street Opposite Upendo Vacation Training Center. Telephone: +255222773254, Cell: +255713669044, +255756571123.
E-mail: openmindtz@yahoo.com, www.envaya.openmindtz
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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR MENTORS FOR BSED FOR THE FIC PROGRAMME – DECENT WORK AND LABOUR RIGHTS IN EAST AFRICA – YOUTH COMPONENT
JOB TITLE: Business Mentors
DUTY STATION: Dar-es-salaam with regular training trips within the three districts
REPORTS TO: BSED Coordinator
COORDINATION: Other Coordinators, Liaison officer
SUPERVISION: BSED Trainees
NUMBER OF POSTS: 6
About the Programme: Decent Work and Labour Rights in East Africa
Following the successfully implementation of the first project ‘Networking and Empowerment of Youth Organizations in Dar-es-salaam’ in 2013 which aimed of empowering youth organizations (Open Mind Tanzania, Tanzania Youth Vision Association and Youth of Africa) in Dar-es-salaam to strengthen their management, administrative and financial capacity. Also, the organisations were supposed to put in place proper structures, systems and processes to improve efficiency, effectiveness and democratic representation. Moreover, the knowledge on employment issues for youth, advocacy and networking of the partner organisations were strengthened.
Furthermore, it had been ensured that the more seven (7) youth organisations based in Dar-es-Salaam have increased their knowledge on employment issues for youth, advocacy and networking and together with the three partner organisations they have developed a plan for how to work together towards creating improved opportunities for employment and influence among the youth of Dar-es-Salaam.
Based on the aforesaid project, the Danish NGO, Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) and a range of youth organisations and trade unions in Kenya and Tanzania in 2013 developed a joint programme namely ‘Decent work and labour rights in East Africa’. The development objective of the programme is making sure that the employment conditions in Tanzania have improved and youth has access to decent employment in line with existing national and international labour laws and regulations. The program was approved by the Danish donor, Civil Society in Development (CISU) in December, 2013. The program will take place from January, 2014 to December, 2016. The programme has two types of implementing partners; for youth organizations and trade unions. The programme is further divided into clusters of partners in Kenya and Tanzania; in Tanzania youth cluster, Open Mind Tanzania is entrusted to carryout Business Skills and Entrepreneurship Development trainings. These trainings and counselling aimed at helping youth to start or improve their businesses hence improving job opportunities for youth in Tanzania.
About OMT-Local Partner Overseeing the BSED Trainings in Dar-es-salaam
Open Mind Tanzania (OMT) is a professional, non political, non profit, non religious and service oriented Non Governmental Organization Registered by the Ministry of Home Affairs with Certificate Number SO. 15518, under the Socialites Act CAP 337 R.E. 2002. It is a team of motivated young professionals who are determined to see changes in the economic and social status of the Tanzanian public (especially the youth). From June 2006 to the present, we are fighting to make the Tanzanians able to identify and use the present legal opportunities to achieve moral, social and economic development.
OMT has been imparting practical entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to youth in groups or as individuals for the purpose of helping them to utilize the available opportunities in their localities that they can use to create jobs and employ themselves. Moreover, OMT provide quality and affordable Business Advisory Services (BDS) to youth enterprises and making sure they develop their skills and competence in business through entrepreneurship trainings, counseling, mentoring and coaching we do offer.
Furthermore, OMT engage, unite and promote youth from different grounds to participate in various productive projects which will eradicate poverty as well as wealth creation in their respective projects hence solving the critical problem of unemployment by engaging youth within society productive programmes.
In order to foster for its activities OMT has develop a partnership with FIC to carry out the programme ‘Decent work and Labour Rights in East Africa’. The programme has to be implemented with other two partner local organizations namely YOA and TYVA.
These three local partners work together towards implementing a specific objective:
2. The strengthened capacity of partner youth organizations in Kenya and
Tanzania to create awareness and to advocate for increased and improved job
opportunities for youth has contributed to better conditions for establishing
sustainable businesses and increased success in their job seeking.
The OMT office is seeing for a qualified individual to be responsible for training and counseling youth on Business Skills and Entrepreneurship Development in collaboration with other local organizations in Tanzania.
Overall Role of BSED Trainers & Business Advisors
The Business Mentors will be generally responsible for results related to one which is, ‘Young people have obtained a job, started or improved their own business in Tanzania as a result of training or counseling provided by the programme’. The Business Mentors will work in close consultation with the BSED Coordinator.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES
- Carryout mentoring and coaching activities focusing youth business and entrepreneurship trainees.
- Help the youth to follow ‘do as I do’ motto.
- Link the young entrepreneurs with the business communities in and outside Tanzania.
- Help the youth to identify their business potential turn it into reality.
- At its best, business mentoring is a process that activates the skills of the mentee within their current role and helps groom them for their next.
- Being a business mentor requires you to be highly skilled in listening, coaching, giving feedback and, where appropriate, pushing the mentee along faster than they think they can go. Furthermore, you will need to adjust your style as the mentoring relationship develops and according to the issue you are addressing at any one time.
- Provide both professional and technical support.
- Perform any other duties related to the above as assigned by immediate supervisor (BSED Coordinator or BSED Accountant).
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Must have an operating business in Tanzania.
- Passion for coaching and mentoring youth.
- Have entrepreneurship qualities.
- Conversant with relevant youth entrepreneurship environment in Tanzania.
- Experience with youth employment & self employment.
- Good business network with business stakeholders.
- Possesses hands on entrepreneurship skills, integrity, role-model, mentoring and coaching.
- Someone who shows initiative, performance driven and has considerable planning and organizational skills.
- Good written and oral communication skills in both English and Kiswahili.
- Ability to manage complex situations and facilitate multi-stakeholder participatory processes.
Compensation for a Business Mentors
- Compensation will be agreed upon with the programme team once the recruitment process is done.
- Mentors will receive a special training on mentoring and coaching youth.
Invitation to be Part of the Mentors:
Acknowledging you to be as a key stakeholder in youth entrepreneurship, we invite you to be one of the mentors that will mentor the BSED trainees once a week. Kindly reply us with an accepting letter to take part in mentoring sessions in the programme.
BSED Coordinator,
P. O. Box 4859,
Dar-es-salaam.
Application to be closed on 11th Oct0ber, 2014. Women will be considered accordingly.