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Employment Type

Full-time

Location

Kampala, Uganda

Vacancies

1 position

Closing Date

11/13/2026
7 days left

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Description (Public)

The Education Advisor for World of Work Linkages works within the YES Green project to connect education institutions with world of work actors in the green agrifood sector. The role provides technical advice to partners and co-creates teaching and learning support materials that prepare young people for green jobs.

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

  • Provide technical advice, guidance and support to world of work support organisations so educational change processes are realised.
  • Co-create high quality teaching and learning support materials with users, including world of work actors and teachers.
  • Align learning materials with evolving skills needs in the green agrifood sector and YES Green education solutions.
  • Contribute to planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of YES Green deliverables.
  • Work with Strategic Education Advisors, Education Advisors and MERL Advisors to ensure quality, coherence and scalability.
  • Design and facilitate capacity development for partner organisations and world of work practitioners.
  • Support career talks, career guidance, project-based and work-based learning activities.
  • Keep abreast of new research and developments in education, skills and youth employment, and share insights.

Qualifications, Education and Competencies

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Master's degree in education, agriculture, agribusiness, development studies, human sciences or a relevant field, or equivalent proven professional experience.
  • At least three years of relevant experience at the intersection of education and skills development or youth economic opportunities.
  • Experience engaging agrifood sector or other world of work actors.
  • Experience designing and facilitating capacity development and co-creating educational or training content with users.

Skills & Competencies:

  • Technical advisory and coaching skills.
  • Strong facilitation and training design.
  • Collaborative stakeholder engagement.
  • Knowledge of career guidance, work-based learning and green skills.
  • Analytical and report writing skills.

How to Apply

About VVOB – Education for Development
VVOB is an international NGO with Programmes and projects in 10 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium. When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.

Mission

VVOB works towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) by ensuring the improvement of education through the capacity development of education actors and technical assistance.

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