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Job-ID: V000055870 Location: Kumasi Assignment period: 11/01/2023 - 09/30/2026 Field: Economic Development Type of employment: full-time Application deadline: 08/29/2023The project \"Support to the Transformation of the TVET System in Ghana\" is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development with funding support from the EU. In 2019, the Government of Ghana initiated a transformation of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector better known as “Harmonization of TVET”. GIZ supports these reform processes. The project’s objective is to support the Government of Ghana in establishing an efficient TVET system by strengthening the management capacities of relevant state actors, by training TVET personnel to apply competency-based trainings (CBT), by involving the private sector to ensure TVET curricula are demand-driven, and lastly by integrating green and digital elements into TVET to address environment and sustainability aspects in the labor market.
Kumasi is the second largest city in Ghana and the capital of the Ashanti Region. It is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the commercial, industrial, and cultural capital of the historical Ashanti Empire. Medical facilities, shopping centres, local markets, local and international restaurants are all available. Kumasi has an airport. The capital of Ghana, Accra, can be reached in 40 minutes by air and in about four hours by road. The airport will soon be expanded to an international airport with international destinations.
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