Job ID
51293
Job Title
Training Center Supervisor – Student Empowerment and Entrepreneurship
To work for
Human Aid and Development -HAND
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Education/Training - Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Not Specified
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
1. Training Center Management and Daily Operations
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Training Center, ensuring the efficient organization of activities, schedules, facilities, and resources.
- Develop and monitor work plans and activity schedules in coordination with relevant teams and stakeholders.
- Ensure the readiness, proper use, and maintenance of training rooms, facilities, equipment, and learning materials.
- Supervise the Center team, assign responsibilities, and monitor performance to ensure efficient and continuous operations.
2. Training and Student & Graduate Empowerment
- Coordinate the delivery of training courses, workshops, and professional development activities based on identified needs.
- Contribute to identifying required competencies and training needs in line with evolving labor-market demands.
- Coordinate with trainers and technical teams to ensure effective preparation and delivery of training programs in accordance with established standards.
- Monitor participant attendance, engagement, progress, and completion, and address challenges that may affect participation.
- Promote a supportive and inclusive learning environment that responds to participants' needs and strengthens their practical and professional competencies.
3. Monitoring, Quality Assurance and Reporting
- Monitor the implementation of Center activities against approved plans, schedules, objectives, and quality standards.
- Collect and review data on attendance, participation, completion, participant satisfaction, and other relevant indicators.
- Identify operational or program implementation challenges and coordinate appropriate corrective actions.
- Provide regular activity updates and contribute to periodic reports covering achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.
- Ensure the proper maintenance and organization of participant records, training documentation, feedback, and other relevant records.
4. Employability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Support initiatives that strengthen students' and graduates' employability, career readiness, entrepreneurship, digital competencies, and professional skills.
- Promote practical and innovative learning approaches that respond to participants' needs and changing labor-market requirements.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve the Center's services and training programs based on participant feedback, activity results, and stakeholder input.
- Contribute to documenting success stories, good practices, and lessons learned from Center activities.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Training Center, ensuring the efficient organization of activities, schedules, facilities, and resources.
- Develop and monitor work plans and activity schedules in coordination with relevant teams and stakeholders.
- Ensure the readiness, proper use, and maintenance of training rooms, facilities, equipment, and learning materials.
- Supervise the Center team, assign responsibilities, and monitor performance to ensure efficient and continuous operations.
2. Training and Student & Graduate Empowerment
- Coordinate the delivery of training courses, workshops, and professional development activities based on identified needs.
- Contribute to identifying required competencies and training needs in line with evolving labor-market demands.
- Coordinate with trainers and technical teams to ensure effective preparation and delivery of training programs in accordance with established standards.
- Monitor participant attendance, engagement, progress, and completion, and address challenges that may affect participation.
- Promote a supportive and inclusive learning environment that responds to participants' needs and strengthens their practical and professional competencies.
3. Monitoring, Quality Assurance and Reporting
- Monitor the implementation of Center activities against approved plans, schedules, objectives, and quality standards.
- Collect and review data on attendance, participation, completion, participant satisfaction, and other relevant indicators.
- Identify operational or program implementation challenges and coordinate appropriate corrective actions.
- Provide regular activity updates and contribute to periodic reports covering achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.
- Ensure the proper maintenance and organization of participant records, training documentation, feedback, and other relevant records.
4. Employability, Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Support initiatives that strengthen students' and graduates' employability, career readiness, entrepreneurship, digital competencies, and professional skills.
- Promote practical and innovative learning approaches that respond to participants' needs and changing labor-market requirements.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve the Center's services and training programs based on participant feedback, activity results, and stakeholder input.
- Contribute to documenting success stories, good practices, and lessons learned from Center activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Education, Human Resources, Management, Social Sciences, Economics, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in training, youth development, education, employability, skills development, program coordination, or training center management.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating training programs, educational activities, youth empowerment initiatives, or related projects.
- Proven experience working and coordinating with trainers, educational institutions, employers, private-sector actors, and diverse stakeholders.
- Good understanding of student and youth development, employability, professional skills development, and labor-market requirements.
- Experience in development programs or donor-funded projects, including relevant reporting requirements, is an advantage.
- At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in training, youth development, education, employability, skills development, program coordination, or training center management.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating training programs, educational activities, youth empowerment initiatives, or related projects.
- Proven experience working and coordinating with trainers, educational institutions, employers, private-sector actors, and diverse stakeholders.
- Good understanding of student and youth development, employability, professional skills development, and labor-market requirements.
- Experience in development programs or donor-funded projects, including relevant reporting requirements, is an advantage.
Specific Vacancy Requirements
- Strong leadership, coordination, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple activities, priorities, and operational requirements simultaneously.
- Good knowledge of training methodologies, student engagement, skills development, and employability concepts.
- Strong monitoring, documentation, reporting, problem-solving, and analytical skills. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Fluency in Arabic and English, with the ability to communicate effectively and prepare professional reports in both languages.
- Strong commitment to professionalism, teamwork, accountability, safeguarding principles, and maintaining a positive and inclusive learning and training environment.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple activities, priorities, and operational requirements simultaneously.
- Good knowledge of training methodologies, student engagement, skills development, and employability concepts.
- Strong monitoring, documentation, reporting, problem-solving, and analytical skills. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Fluency in Arabic and English, with the ability to communicate effectively and prepare professional reports in both languages.
- Strong commitment to professionalism, teamwork, accountability, safeguarding principles, and maintaining a positive and inclusive learning and training environment.
Salary and Benefits
- According to HAND salary scale.
About us
- Human Aid and Development (HAND) is a non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian and development organization dedicated to creating positive and sustainable change for vulnerable and underserved communities. Guided by the principles of inclusion, accountability, dignity, and sustainability, HAND works to expand opportunities, strengthen resilience, and improve access to essential services for people affected by crisis and other challenging circumstances.
- Building on its regional humanitarian experience, HAND established its operational presence in Syria in 2025 and is expanding its programmes to respond to evolving community needs and contribute to recovery and development efforts. HAND works with children, young people, women, persons with disabilities, returnees, internally displaced persons, and other vulnerable groups through an integrated, multisectoral approach covering Education, Youth Development and TVET, Child Protection and Psychosocial Support, Food Security and Livelihoods, Shelter and Infrastructure Rehabilitation, WASH, and Emergency Response and Basic Assistance.
- With its main office in Damascus and operational presence across Damascus and Rural Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Idleb, Hama, Latakia, and Tartous, HAND works closely with communities, local authorities, national and international partners, donors, and other stakeholders to deliver relevant, quality, and sustainable programmes. HAND is officially registered and licensed to operate in Syria under License No. 173/2025, and is also registered and operational in Lebanon.
- At HAND, we believe that people are at the heart of sustainable change. We are committed to building a professional, collaborative, and inclusive working environment where dedicated individuals can contribute their expertise, develop their skills, and make a meaningful difference in the communities we serve.ba
- Building on its regional humanitarian experience, HAND established its operational presence in Syria in 2025 and is expanding its programmes to respond to evolving community needs and contribute to recovery and development efforts. HAND works with children, young people, women, persons with disabilities, returnees, internally displaced persons, and other vulnerable groups through an integrated, multisectoral approach covering Education, Youth Development and TVET, Child Protection and Psychosocial Support, Food Security and Livelihoods, Shelter and Infrastructure Rehabilitation, WASH, and Emergency Response and Basic Assistance.
- With its main office in Damascus and operational presence across Damascus and Rural Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Idleb, Hama, Latakia, and Tartous, HAND works closely with communities, local authorities, national and international partners, donors, and other stakeholders to deliver relevant, quality, and sustainable programmes. HAND is officially registered and licensed to operate in Syria under License No. 173/2025, and is also registered and operational in Lebanon.
- At HAND, we believe that people are at the heart of sustainable change. We are committed to building a professional, collaborative, and inclusive working environment where dedicated individuals can contribute their expertise, develop their skills, and make a meaningful difference in the communities we serve.ba
Required employees number
1
Posted On
Sep 27, 2026
Expiry Date
Oct 12, 2026
CV Language
English
