Vocational Trainer Tailoring

Job Summary Key Duties and Responsibilities: • Assess participants’ starting skill levels and prepare an inclusive training plan, timetable and practical lesson sequence based on the approved curriculum. • Teach accurate measurement, pattern preparation, cutting, hand stitching, machine sewing, finishing, alteration and production of locally marketable garments and items. • Demonstrate safe operation, cleaning and routine maintenance of sewing machines, irons, scissors and other tools and enforce workshop safety rules. • Provide supervised practice, individual coaching and constructive feedback and adapt instruction for different literacy levels and learning needs. • Integrate basic employability and business skills, including quality control, costing, pricing, customer service, record keeping and market awareness. • Maintain attendance, lesson, competency and assessment records and report participant progress and support needs. • Manage training fabrics, tools and consumables responsibly; maintain issue and usage records and promptly report loss, damage or replenishment needs. • Support transparent practical assessments and completion decisions based on demonstrated competencies rather than attendance alone. • Help organize exhibitions, market linkages or graduation activities and orient eligible graduates on the safe and accountable use of approved toolkits. • Perform duties in accordance with OCHR policies, the approved workplan, and applicable donor standards and guidance. • Promote safe, dignified and inclusive access to services, applying do-no-harm, confidentiality, informed consent and survivor-centred principles. • Comply with OCHR safeguarding, child safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, code of conduct, anti-fraud and conflict-of-interest requirements. • Explain available feedback and complaint channels to participants and promptly report safeguarding concerns through approved confidential pathways. • Maintain accurate, sex- and age-disaggregated activity records and submit timely daily, weekly and monthly information to the supervisor using approved formats. • Coordinate respectfully with project colleagues, community representatives, relevant authorities and service providers while protecting personal data. • Participate in orientation, supervision, team meetings, capacity-building activities and performance reviews, and carry out other project-related duties assigned by the supervisor. Job Requirements • Recognized tailoring or vocational-training certificate; secondary education required and relevant diploma preferred. • Minimum two years of professional tailoring and/or tailoring-training experience, with demonstrated ability to produce high-quality garments. • Recognized technical competence in measurement, pattern cutting, sewing-machine operation, garment construction, finishing and minor machine maintenance. • Previous experience training women or adolescent girls using practical and participatory methods is strongly preferred. • Basic knowledge of product costing, pricing, quality control and local market demand. • Patient, respectful and organized, with strong demonstration, coaching, assessment and record-keeping skills. • Fluency in the relevant local language is required; Dari and/or Pashto literacy is an advantage.