Call for Trainers: Life, Business and Employability Skill training

Background:

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to ensuring that all children throughout the world have quality care, that is their right. In 1949, Hermann Gmeiner established the first SOS Children’s Village in Imist, Austria. Our organization was founded on the belief and recognition that the most vulnerable children need emotional and physical stability in a family and a community environment to develop to their potential.

SOS Children's Villages is the largest non-governmental, non-political, non-denominational charitable child welfare organization in the world. SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia is a member of SOS Children's Villages International, which was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in 1949 in Imst, Austria to help children in need; children who have lost their homes, their security, and their families because of the Second World War. The first SOS Children's Village in Ethiopia was opened in Mekelle in 1974. Currently, SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia is running SOS Children's Villages Programme in Addis Ababa, Harar, Mekelle, Hawassa, Bahir Dar, Gode and Jimma.

SOS Children’s Village Addis Ababa is the third Village in Ethiopia next to Mekele and Harar. It was opened in 1981 in a residential district of the Southwest of Addis, in Lideta Sub city. Currently, SOS Children’s Village Addis Ababa Program has grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges that confront children who have lost parental care and who are at the risk of losing, the love, care, and protection of their families, and caregivers. Working in close cooperation with donors, the government, and community-based organizations, SOS Children’s Village Addis Ababa program has continued supporting thousands of children who have lost parental care and are at risk of losing it. Currently, the program location is benefiting more than 20,000 program participants directly in its families like care, Kinship care and Foster Care (focusing on family strengthening), Supervised Independent Living, youth empowerment projects, Early Childhood Care and Development Centre, projects for children in street situations, and inclusion projects (meeting the rights of children and caregivers with disability and Together for Inclusion) and Project for young caregivers.

Job Summary:

SOS CVE– STEP Addis Ababa project location in collaboration with selected woredas in Yeka and Gulele sub cities will select youth to participate in the project activities.

Life ,business and employability Skill training primarily covered and focused on the following major sections: Reach Up introduction and Orientation, Pride Stories, Passion and purpose, Personal dependable strengths, Individual reflection, Marketable strengths, translating personal strengths into workplace skills, Personal skills assessment, Self-marketing, discover your work values, imagine a perfect day, Mind map your future, what are assets? Personal assets, Peer assets, Community assets, Action planning, Making Your Action Plan Smart, Create your feature and benefits list.

The SOS CVE–STEP, in collaboration with respective woredas of Job and Skill office, planned to deliver life, business skill and employability skill training of the year of 2026 project activities.

The life, business skill and employability skill training will be conducted for five consecutive days and after we have successfully conducted the life, business and employability skill training, Youth participants will have the abilities to decide their future carrier pathway. The aim of life, business and employability skill training is to make our youth participants ready in mental, psychological and physical readiness for their career and for our proposed support

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the five-day face-to-face up Life, business skill and Employability skill Training.
• Become familiar with our Trainers cost Package.
• Prepare and deliver Life, business skills and Employability skill Training
• Reporting Life, business and Employability skill Training to the respected officers.

Adheres to SOS CVE’s Safeguarding Policies and Regulations

• SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia (SOSCVE) places safeguarding (children, youth, and adult safeguarding and asset protection) at the center of its concerns. The Organization is committed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults are safe, they are treated with dignity and respect, and all resources are used solely for the purpose for which they are given.
• SOSCVE has Zero tolerance for any safeguarding concerns and provides proper response to any reported safeguarding concerns. Hence, the consultant/firms shall ensure that its employees/collaborators as well as any other person involved in the implementation of the present contract, comply with the safeguarding policies and regulations. Therefore, potential winners (firms/individuals)
• Completes with the rules and principles set out in the policies and regulations annexed to agreement made.
• Confirms that none of its employees, collaborators or associates are involved and/or have been involved in any way in violence, abuse, fraud, and corruption.
• Accepts proven material breach of any provision of the Child and Youth Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct, Sexual Misconduct Regulation, Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption regulation shall automatically render agreement entered null and void and shall expose the perpetrator to legal action.

Ethical standard and Intelectual property

• Ownership and copyright of all coaching service reports will be the sole and exclusive property of SOS Children Village in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Program, STEP- Project and restricted for public use. The coacher will submit all coaching documents, materials and data to SOS Children Village in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa program. SOS CVE is a child focused Organization and will always uphold the safety and wellbeing of children and youths as it strives towards creating a better environment for children, youths, and their surrounding community. In ensuring this, SOS CVE will only consider those who are suitable to work with youths. The selected coacher will sign the code of conduct or child and youth safeguarding policy of SOS CVs before the commencement of the work

What we provide (Reasons to apply)

• Great opportunity to enhance your own soft skills on up Life, business skills and Employability skill Training.
• Gaining confidence to successfully deliver up Life, business skills and Employability skill Training.
• Empowering you to deliver structured training based on a modular, adaptable, training program.
• A chance to contribute to increasing our profession’s capacity to evaluate and demonstrate the value and impact of Youths.

Trainers’ selection criteria

• Good understanding of the Life, business and employability skill Training
• Previous experience in Life, business skill and employability skill training facilitation and delivery skill.
• Experience in teaching, training, or professional development as a facilitator, including interactive and participatory learning approaches.
• Good communication skills: good written and oral communication skills, good networking skills, ability to guide and motivate participants, active listener abilities.
• Good time-management skills, decision-making and problem-solving skills (required to independently plan for and deliver training.
• Self-management: high commitment to work, verified abilities to manage own duties between the attendance of training and related tasks, high resilience and resistance to stress, intrinsic motivation and creative thinking.
• Be able to be reflective and open to receive feedback. Positive attitude and willingness to deliver our training instruction to real-life application during and beyond the training sessions.
• Flexibility in time and general availability for delivering training will be considered.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERTISE REQUIRED

• BA/MA in psychology, social work, counseling, or related field.
• Proven experience (at least three pieces of evidence) in facilitating psycho-social support or similar workshops/services for youth empowerment-focused projects.
• Experience working with an NGO is preferable previous BMZ/STEP project trainers are encouraged to apply for this call.

How to Apply

• Then send us your application (application letter, detailed CV containing contact details of their references) in person @ SOS children's village A.A Program Location Keraniyo STEP project Office, through ICIMS, Ethipjobs, Linkedn or by email to [email protected]  from January 4,2026 to February 6,2026.
• For further information, please contact us at: 0970135106/0921545552

The application shall include:

• A one-page motivation letter in English, covering applicant’s experience and addressing the selection criteria.
• CV in English.
• Verification of availability to participate in our training activities.
• Reference letter of recommendation.

Excited to take on a new Challenge...

Then send us your application (application letter, detailed CV containing contact details of their references) electronically through SOS Children Villages Application portal (ICIMS)

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Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conduct of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered.  Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection, and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, and police clearance reference check processes.

SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia provides equal employment opportunities to all co-workers & qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or class.