Skill Up! [4 weeks]

About the project

Official description from EXPA.

Global Volunteers will collaborate with formal and technical schools to create and conduct soft and hard skills trainings as well as providing career guidance for local youth and building up entrepreneurship skills.

Project

The project aims to impact SDG #8 by providing young people with soft and hard skills trainings, needed to qualify for a decent job, and career guidance.

Logistics

As stated in EXPA. "Unknown" means EXPA does not say - never assume it is included. Confirm with the host committee before travelling.

• AccommodationProvided · cost covered
• MealsNot provided
• Local transportNot provided
• ComputerNot provided

Weekly activities

1. Week 1
   • With the help of the partner or teacher, create an assessment to evaluate beneficiaries soft and hard skills
   • Create implemantion plan to how the project should unfold and determine materials to be used
   • Onboarding space with a partner representative to understand the context and urgent needs of the youth.
   • Analyze country issues regarding youth employability and job-hunting related topics in the country
   • Create and prepare material for the sessions, dynamics and workshops of the following weeks.
2. Week 2
   • introductory session with the beneficiaries, presentation of the volunteers and project objectives.
   • Assessment of their current hard and soft skills: where can they improve?
   • Mentorship/buddy program based on what soft skills participants want to develop.
   • Coordinate sessions with individual participants to identify what skills they want to develop. Set up a PDP with them
3. Week 3
   • Activity: introspection space for participants to realize their own strengths and weaknesses and identify what soft skills they have and what they can improve.
   • Soft skill workshops based on demands and needs of participants.
   • Development spaces (games, dynamics, role play, roundtables, etc) about soft skills development: solution oriented, world citizen, empowering others, self awareness.
   • Continue with buddy and coaching dynamics.
4. Week 4
   • Analyze data to determinate outcome results.
   • Build a final project report and present to AIESEC members and NGO/non-profit representatives.
   • Collect data from project beneficiaries (you can use surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.)

Requirements

Study levels: Associate Degree

Host

Organisation: OMEJ
Host committee: AIESEC in Meknes
City: Meknes

Contact the host committee