Education and Selection Assistant

Organization: Passerelles numériques
Supervised by: Education manager
Status/type of contract: Service contract
Project: Passerelles numériques Vietnam
Targeted date: September 2014
Duration: Long term contract
Location: Da Nang, Vietnam

BACKGROUND

Passerelles numériques (PN), a non-profit organisation, is dedicated to enabling the largest number of youths in a precarious situation access to training and qualified employment in Information Technology.

Established in Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam, Passerelles numériques currently trains 555 students and aims to train 750 in the next three years. PN employs 96 people based in these three countries including a small team in France.

Passerelles numériques relies on the financial and skills sponsorship of several corporate partners such as Accenture, Econocom-Osiatis, CA Technologies and Microsoft and also receives support from individual donors.

The project in Viet Nam began in 2010 in partnership with East Meets West (EMW) and the Software Development Center (SDC) of Da Nang University. There are currently 87 young people from under-privileged families from the central region of Viet Nam who have joined this program. In September 2014, 60 new students will join our training.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Passerelles numériques is looking for an Education and Selection Assistant for the training center in Da Nang.

Under the direct supervision of the Education Manager of the Center, he/she will be required to support the Education team in the supervision of the student life and the Selection team for all the steps of the selection process.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

1.Student life

• Support the different departments to prepare the coming of the new batch of students: prepare all the paperwork needed, keep informed the partners and the families.
• Support the Education team for preparing all the events related to the student life: integration week, graduation ceremony, monthly activities…
• Ensure the follow-up of 1 to 2 boarding houses for the housekeeping, respect of the rules and students’ activities.

2.Selection

• Support the Selection team in the preparation of the communication material, equipment and paperwork required during the selection process.
• Ensure smooth relationships and communication with the partners: Study Promotion Association, Governmental Agencies, Schools and NGO’s.
• Join all the steps of the selection: information session in the high schools, written test and motivation interview with the students, social investigation in the families of the eligible candidates.

3.Reporting

• Contribute to do the data inputs and the translation English/Vietnamese whenever it is needed.
• Ensure that data are updated and documents are filed in a systematic way.
• Support the Education and Selection team for the capitalization and needed reporting such as the Annual Selection Report.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

General skills

• Required Bachelor degree
• Experience in social work would be highly appreciated
• Excellent communication skills / organization skills
• Capacity to build and keep good relationship with our partners
• Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook...
• Good level of English (spoken and written language will be English)

Specific skills

• Good capacity of adaptation
• Ready to travel in mountainous areas
• Must be dedicated and involved to the students project
• Strong sense of responsibility and initiative
• Confident to handle complex situation
• Rigorous and demanding
• Good socio-economic knowledge of Vietnam will be a plus.

CONTACT - HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter in English to Stéphanie de Barros: [email protected]