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The establishment of the TVET Council under the TVET Act, 2025 marks an important step in strengthening how skills are developed and governed in Uganda. The Council provides leadership, coordination, and oversight across the TVET system, ensuring that training remains relevant, credible, and aligned with the needs of the economy.
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Senior Standards and Compliance Officer (5 Positions) Job at TVET Council of Uganda
TVET Council of Uganda
Job Description
The Senior Standards and Compliance Officer supports the development, implementation, monitoring, and enforcement of national TVET standards and compliance systems in accordance with the TVET Act, 2025. The position is responsible for conducting technical compliance assessments, institutional audits, inspections, and follow-up actions to ensure that TVET providers, programmes, trainers, facilities, and assessment systems meet approved national standards and contribute to a quality-assured, labour market–responsive TVET system.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Standards Development and Review
- Support the development, validation, documentation, and periodic review of national TVET standards for institutions, programmes, trainers, facilities, and assessment systems.
- Participate in technical working groups and consultations with Sector Skills Expert Committees (SSECs), professional bodies, and industry stakeholders.
- Support alignment of occupational standards with the TVET Qualifications Framework and accreditation requirements.
- Contribute technical inputs toward harmonization of TVET standards with regional and international frameworks (EAC, SADC, AU, UNESCO-UNEVOC).
- Compliance Monitoring and Institutional Inspections
- Conduct institutional audits, compliance assessments, and inspections of TVET providers in line with approved standards and protocols.
- Apply compliance monitoring tools, checklists, and scoring frameworks during inspections.
- Document inspection findings, non-compliance issues, risks, and good practices.
- Support follow-up inspections to verify implementation of corrective and improvement actions.
- Recommend appropriate compliance, corrective, or enforcement actions in accordance with the TVET Act, 2025.
- Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement
- Support implementation of institutional self-assessment and internal quality assurance frameworks.
- Assist TVET providers to interpret standards and develop compliance improvement plans.
- Monitor trends in compliance findings to inform continuous improvement of standards and monitoring tools.
- Support integration of emerging technologies, delivery models, and occupational requirements into standards review processes.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building
- Provide technical guidance to TVET institutions on standards compliance requirements.
- Participate in sensitization workshops, training sessions, and awareness programmes on standards and compliance.
- Engage employers, SSECs, professional councils, and regulators in standards validation and implementation.
- Promote understanding of quality assurance and compliance obligations among public and private TVET providers.
- Data Management and Documentation
- Maintain accurate records of inspection reports, compliance assessments, corrective actions, and enforcement decisions.
- Support the updating and maintenance of the national databases on standards and institutional compliance status.
- Ensure integrity, confidentiality, and traceability of compliance records.
- Generate compliance statistics and summaries to support reporting and decision-making.
- Reporting and Administrative Support
- Prepare detailed inspection reports, compliance assessment summaries, and technical recommendations.
- Contribute to periodic unit reports submitted to the Manager Standards and Compliance.
- Support preparation of departmental technical reports, briefs, and submissions to the TVET Council.
- Perform any other related duties assigned by the Manager Standards and Compliance.
- Supervision and leadership
- Provide supervision, technical support, guidance and capacity building to staff under direct supervision
- Prepare unit plans and performance agreements for staff under supervision
- Provide on-the job training, coaching and mentoring to staff under supervision.
- Supervision Received: Directly supervised by the Manager Standards and Compliance.
- Supervision Exercised: Provides direct supervision to the Standards and Compliance Officers and may provide technical guidance to other staff as assigned.
- Support the development, validation, documentation, and periodic review of national TVET standards for institutions, programmes, trainers, facilities, and assessment systems.
- Participate in technical working groups and consultations with Sector Skills Expert Committees (SSECs), professional bodies, and industry stakeholders.
- Support alignment of occupational standards with the TVET Qualifications Framework and accreditation requirements.
- Contribute technical inputs toward harmonization of TVET standards with regional and international frameworks (EAC, SADC, AU, UNESCO-UNEVOC).
- Conduct institutional audits, compliance assessments, and inspections of TVET providers in line with approved standards and protocols.
- Apply compliance monitoring tools, checklists, and scoring frameworks during inspections.
- Document inspection findings, non-compliance issues, risks, and good practices.
- Support follow-up inspections to verify implementation of corrective and improvement actions.
- Recommend appropriate compliance, corrective, or enforcement actions in accordance with the TVET Act, 2025.
- Support implementation of institutional self-assessment and internal quality assurance frameworks.
- Assist TVET providers to interpret standards and develop compliance improvement plans.
- Monitor trends in compliance findings to inform continuous improvement of standards and monitoring tools.
- Support integration of emerging technologies, delivery models, and occupational requirements into standards review processes.
- Provide technical guidance to TVET institutions on standards compliance requirements.
- Participate in sensitization workshops, training sessions, and awareness programmes on standards and compliance.
- Engage employers, SSECs, professional councils, and regulators in standards validation and implementation.
- Promote understanding of quality assurance and compliance obligations among public and private TVET providers.
- Maintain accurate records of inspection reports, compliance assessments, corrective actions, and enforcement decisions.
- Support the updating and maintenance of the national databases on standards and institutional compliance status.
- Ensure integrity, confidentiality, and traceability of compliance records.
- Generate compliance statistics and summaries to support reporting and decision-making.
- Prepare detailed inspection reports, compliance assessment summaries, and technical recommendations.
- Contribute to periodic unit reports submitted to the Manager Standards and Compliance.
- Support preparation of departmental technical reports, briefs, and submissions to the TVET Council.
- Perform any other related duties assigned by the Manager Standards and Compliance.
- Provide supervision, technical support, guidance and capacity building to staff under direct supervision
- Prepare unit plans and performance agreements for staff under supervision
- Provide on-the job training, coaching and mentoring to staff under supervision.
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