Technical Assistance for Promoting Youth Employment – Turkey

Team Leader

CfBT is planning to bid for this EC service contract to promote cooperation between the Turkish Employment Agency (iŞKUR) and all related stakeholders and assist them to provide services to promote youth employment by increasing employability and entrepreneurship of young people. The service will include analysis of entrepreneurship opportunities in 15 growth centres, preparing guidelines and reports, which can be used as road maps by both young people and the relevant institutions/organizations, elaborating a model on ‘Youth Entrepreneurship Support’ (YES) to promote young entrepreneurship, conducting workshops in 5 growth centres by participation of young people and relevant stakeholders, preparing an action plan, disseminating results of the grant scheme.

The provisional contract start date is May 2010, for 24 months.

The successful applicant will have the following:

Qualifications and skills:

  • University degree in social sciences.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English; Turkish would be an asset.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Excellent communication and reporting skills.
  • Experience of working in multi-cultural environments.
  • Solid interpersonal skills.
  • International project management experience on EU technical assistance projects.

General professional skills:

  • At least 10 years’ professional experience in the field of employment and human resources development (HRD).
  • 5 years’ as a Team Leader on EC-funded projects.
  • Experience of providing technical assistance to government institutions.

Specific professional experience:

  • Experience in the field of youth employment.
  • Experience of conducting workshops, preparing action plans and building capacity of government institutions and its members of staff.
  • Experience and knowledge on entrepreneurship would be an asset.

Please note that in accordance with EC Regulations, all consultants who wish to be put forward as a Key Expert for an EC contract tender must provide documentary evidence of all previous employment included in their CV. The documents that should be presented must either be employers’ certificates or references.

If you would like to be considered for this project and feel you meet some or all of the criteria above, then please send an updated EC-formatted CV to consultancydatabase@cfbt.com, quoting reference code: Turkey YE (TL) – CfBT.