United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Training Officer

Organization: INASP
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 12 Feb 2015

INASP is an international development organization working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge in developing countries. We are looking for a Training Officer for a full time post, starting in May 2015. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to contribute to INASP’s work supporting capacity building in developing countries.

The Role

You will:

• Work closely with programme staff to support the quality of training across all programme areas.
• Provide support to INASP staff in the development of training materials.
• Support a pilot project to develop trainers based in Africa, Asia and Latin America in learner centred training skills, including facilitating train the trainer workshops and an online community of practice.
• Contribute to programme thinking, development and implementation.
• Work with other members of INASP staff to share learning and best practice internally and externally.

This role is fulltime, based in our Oxford office.

What we are looking for:

• An experienced trainer
• An interest and commitment to research and development
• Very good organisational skills
• A flexible, collaborative working style

This is an ideal opportunity to contribute your training skills to a high performing organization in the development/research sector.

Terms: Permanent

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000

For a full job description and person specification please go to our website: http://www.inasp.info/staff/vacancies/training-officer/

How to apply:

Please note: you must be eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. We cannot sponsor anyone who does not already have this right and in order to be considered for this post you will need to provide proof of your right to work in the UK. If in doubt of your status, see the UK Government’s website for clarification:https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

How to apply

Applications should be made by email and should include:

1. A full CV
2. A personal statement of no more than 2 sides of A4 outlining how you meet the essential and desirable criteria in the job description and what you would bring to the role
3. Details of your right to work in the UK: either
   a) UK/EEA/Swiss citizen (except Croatian nationals who require ARC documentation); or
   b) details of work permit /visa.

Applications will only be considered if they provide all the above.

These documents should be sent as email attachments to INASP jobs [jobs@inasp.info] using the following naming convention:

• Surname-firstname-cv.file extension (e.g. blogs-jane-cv.pdf)
• Surname-firstname-statement.file extension (e.g. blogs-jane-statement.pdf)
• Surname-firstname-righttowork

The closing date for applications is Thursday 12^th February 2015, 11pm.

Interviews will be held on Monday 16^th March 2015 in Oxford (UK).

Successful candidates selected for interview will be asked to submit a pre-interview task. Please note if you have not heard from us by Friday 6^th March, then you have not been selected for interview.

Please note we will not accept applications through agencies.