Employability program manager

Position Summary:
Odyssea (A Non-Profit Organization based in Athens - Greece) has recently established a new Employability department and is looking for talented people to join its dynamic team in order to progress its impactful goals. Empowering someone with the skills needed to integrate with the world of work is one of the most important ways to create self reliance and agency. The role of the employability manager will be to spearhead this department strengthening private sector participation in workforce development. S/he will be managing a diverse portfolio of cases to employment, job matching and career management service.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for: Employability officer
• Analyze and understand current employment context and related opportunities, identifying relevant professions that show growth
• Mapping of relevant hiring companies and identifying active companies that are humanitarian friendly
• Build additional relationships with employers and expand the current network, creating further employment opportunities appropriate to the needs of our job seekers.
• Support enterprises by encouraging them to place vacancies with employment centres and helping with recruitment, contracts and HR issues.
• Job match Odyssea’s Academy graduates & job seekers with vacancies and opportunities identified from our digital tools
• Providing technical support and advising on technical and vocational qualification and training (TVET) and career guidance
• Carry out detailed analysis and correlation of job positions to relevant skills needed in order to maximize the likelihood of successful and sustainable employment and encourage appropriate referrals.
• Provide information and guidance to our beneficiaries on key knowledge areas including; CVs, Job searching, Interview skills Coaching and Training/Education, to enhance current and future employability.
• Facilitate the qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the department through team meetings, focus groups, M&E forms, regular reporting and any other monitoring tools.

Essential

• Previous experience in employment support services
• Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills with the ability to manage and develop business partnerships/ relationships with employers
• Evidence of excellent case management skills to deliver a quality service to a large total caseload
• Well organized, structured and self-disciplined, with excellent time-management skills
• Recruitment and talent identification experience will be considered as an asset
• Solution-focussed and pro-active in problem-solving
• Good networking and relationship management skills
• Experience of developing and maintaining a network of stakeholder relationships; negotiating effectively in pursuit of common goals.
• Knowledge and experience of Greek Employment Law as it relates to this type of service and role
• Fluency in Greek and English

Desired

• Background in the humanitarian or human resources field (either professional or educational)
• Education in the career development, education, social service and/or human service-related field
• Previous experience providing career and employment-based case-managed services
• Finely tuned organisational skills and ability to work on one’s own initiative