Key Expert 4: Tourism Expert

Job duration

495 working days over 26 months

Job profile

Qualifications and skills:

• University  degree  (preferably  at  Master’s  level)  in  related  fields  (Human  Resources management or tourism and hospitality sector) is recommended.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate with people at all levels.ù
• Excellent  verbal  and  written  command  of  English  and  knowledge  of  Arabic  language  is  an asset.
• Proven  Strong leadership skills  with international, interdisciplinary teams and within complex institutional (are preferably), organizational settings and team building capacities.
• Negotiation and Conflict Management Skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent facilitation and analytical skills.
• Ability  to  interact  in  different  cultural  and  professional  environments  and  to  create  good working relationships at local and international levels.
• Flexibility and ability to cope with changes in priorities.
• Easily adapting style to different people and situations.
• Good related computer skills.

General professional experience:

• At  least  10  years  of  professional  experience  in  the  scope  of  capacity  building  in  hotels  and tourism  industry  sector  (is  preferably),  human  resources,  hospitality  development  and management or tourism and hospitality curriculum development.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity building, human resources development, and development of the tourism establishments is recommended, knowledge transfer in related topics.
• Relevant  professional  experience  in  Egypt  or  Arab  region  or  similar  countries  would  be  an asset.
• Experience  as  key  expert  in  at  least  one  –  three  year  EU  funded  TA  project  related  to  the enhancement  of  (Tourism  and  hospitality  sector  capacity  is  recommended),  and  at  least  of similar size and complexity is considered an added advantage.
• Knowledge and experience of the work with different education institutions.
• Proven  experience  of  capacity  building  and  learning  theory  and  organizational  development work in multinational settings in several capacity building areas.
• Strong training, facilitation and reconciliation skills in international, multicultural settings.

Specific professional experience:

• Extensive  experience  in  human  capacity  building,  education  and  training  of  teachers  for technical and vocational education, (in the tourism sector is preferably).
• Proven ability to develop solid partnerships with high level officials in order to achieve project results.
• Ability to provide interacted (labour market orientations training group sessions).
• Able to produce reports and other standards documents, in English\  Arabic, up to a professional standard.
• Knowledge of community development methodology and capacity building experience within governmental and non-governmental institutions  or  the private sector, including  experience in areas such as capacity assessment, curricula development, course organization, problem based (and not only content based) training, and training impact evaluations.
• Ability to find and mobilize resources to support the capacity building work.
• Awareness of gender issues
• Professional user of at least one of statistical software packages and knowledge of office and processes automation.
• Experience in facilitating multi stakeholder processes.

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