1. Employability and Internship Approach

2. Youth:Work Jordan – Our Mission
The overall mission was to create an enabling environment for vulnerable youth, ages 15-24, by:
Partnering with the public, private and civil society sector to improve youth employability practices and policies,
Strengthening the capacity of youth-serving organizations, and
Promoting the active civic engagement of Jordan’s young people.
Enabeling environment: providing opportunities for youth, creating a healthy environment, through the integration with youth, parents, NGOs etc.

3. YWJ CBO Centered Approach: Youth Community Enhancement Model (YFS)
Sound Organizational practices
Youth effective participation
Considerations in going to scale
Context with family, community & Culture
CBO
Public Sector
Private Sector
Community & Youth Comm.
Parents
Youth
Local Civil Society
Sound Organizational practices: frame work for all activities and interventions
Youth effective participation: youth committees and councils, building their capacities (M&E, technical employability, granting, etc)
Considerations in going to scale: safe educational places physical infrastructure, local partners. Models and tools, youth workers, etc
Context with family etc: activities based on the local community needs, values, traditions based on their credibility, engaging parents throughout the process, decision makers
Standardizing the YFS in the YWJ communities
Introducing YFS best practices tools and procedures
Utilizing assessment tools and implementation processes
Creating YFS locations:
CBOs: laps, training rooms, creativity rooms, gardens, playgrounds
Activities: youth clubs, recreational activities, libraries, systemized literacy classes, handicrafts
Communities projects and services: I-SERVE

4. YWJ CBO Centered Approach: Youth Community Enhancement Model (YFS)
Sound Organizational practices: frame work for all activities and interventions
Youth effective participation: youth committees and councils, building their capacities (M&E, technical employability, granting, etc)
Considerations in going to scale: safe educational places physical infrastructure, local partners. Models and tools, youth workers, etc
Context with family etc: activities based on the local community needs, values, traditions based on their credibility, engaging parents throughout the process, decision makers
Standardizing the YFS in the YWJ communities
Introducing YFS best practices tools and procedures
Utilizing assessment tools and implementation processes
Creating YFS locations:
CBOs: laps, training rooms, creativity rooms, gardens, playgrounds
Activities: youth clubs, recreational activities, libraries, systemized literacy classes, handicrafts
Communities projects and services: I-SERVE

5. Building an Enabling Environment (YFS)
The Youth Intervention Model
Building an Enabling Environment (YFS)
Youth Outcomes
Outreach & Recruitment
Information Sharing
ONE TO ONE SCREENING
Selection
I CAN / I Serve : employability readiness.
PTS
Career Guidance
Civic Engagement & community service learning
Trade-Specific Training
Vocational
Entrepreneurship
IT & Business English
Livelihood Transition Support
Job Placement Services
Business Start-up Support
Community mapping
Entrepreneurs
Community Alliances
Back to School
Labor Market Assessments
Employer Engagement
Job Placement
Parent Engagement
Internships
Youth-Adult Dialogues

6. Job Placement - Context
Facts about Jordan:
More than half of the population is under twenty years of age.
Women’s participation in the labor market is among the lowest in the world(15%)
The unemployment rate in Jordan is 18% and 24% for the target group we are working with.

7. Job Placement - Needs and Gaps
Employers are not prevalent in targeted neighborhoods
Market demand is higher thank youth readiness for internships
Youth do not prefer to work in remote areas especially when housing and transportation are not provided.
Gap between private sector needs and qualification of youth
Low wages offered by the private sector.
Limited knowledge among youth about existing employment opportunities.
Preference to wait until jobs become available in the military or public sector.
Youth rejection of labor intensive positions – (culture of shame )
Social factors, parents reluctant to let daughters enroll in vocational training or join the workforce.

8. Job Placement - Addressing the Needs
Private sector engagement
Consultation with private sector ( Visits, roundtables, job fairs, early engagement of the private sector in the design and implementation of training: Life skills, IT & English , demand driven Vocational training - Hospitality, HVAC, Secretary, Salon Services
Work with companies to make their environment more friendly and attractive to youth.
Launched the “Employer Ambassador Award” initiative

9. Job Placement - Addressing the Needs
Public sector engagement
Strategic partnership established with Ministry of Labor to ensure demand driven approach to job placement
Matching YWJ youth with demand driven vacancies being promoted by the MOL in partnership with major private sector companies
Initiated discussion on policy issues such as improving working conditions and adopting YWJ employability models with the vocational training centers as part of their programs.
MOL with collaboration with YWJ is trying to fill semi-skilled job vacancies with Jordanian nationals
Public sector engagement
Strategic partnership established with Ministry of Labor to ensure demand driven approach to job placement
Matching YWJ youth with demand driven vacancies being promoted by the MOL in partnership with major private sector companies
Initiated discussion on policy issues such as improving working conditions and adopting YWJ employability models with the vocational training centers as part of their programs.
MOL with collaboration with YWJ is trying to fill semi-skilled job vacancies with Jordanian nationals

10. YWJ Internship Approach: Win-Win Model
Definition: short-term work experience emphasizing hands-on learning, and incorporation of education and professional development.  The principle of an internship is “shared value.”
Learning and Outcomes:
Guide the youth toward a professional career in a particular organization, field, or sector
Provides a learning laboratory were youth experience the “real” working world. 
Delivering services in a real work environment should be considered as an internship
Youth contribution to the organization by performing tasks that are of continuing value to both parties. 
The result: a win-win arrangement that leads to a proven record of success. .

11. YWJ Internship Approach: Youth Placement Tracks
Technical Training: on the Job training
Hospitality Training: Partnership with the Ammoun
Secretary training: Partnership with Sanaya
HVAC training: Partnership with LG
Beauty Saloons training: Partnership with Al-Qudos
Internship opportunities in the Youth local communities
Main sector: services sector to include beauty saloons, hospitality, agriculture, Car repair and HVAC workshops

12. Job Placement - What did We Learn?
Job Placement and Internship - What did We Learn?
1. Customize training courses according to market needs leads to:
Higher success in employment.
Satisfaction and trust from both youth and employers.
2. Develop referral system that complement efforts between the public and private sectors, incl. civil society , which leads to more effective implementation and utilization of resources.
3. The need to guide policies to support employability efforts
4. Use tools such as labour market assessment to identify main internship outlets and opportunities
1. Customize training courses according to market needs leads to:
Higher success in employment.
Satisfaction and trust from both youth and employers.
2. Develop referral system that complement efforts between the public and private sectors, incl. civil society , which leads to more effective implementation and utilization of resources.
3. The need to guide policies to support employability efforts

13. Employability Specialist at YWJ
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
Wajd Safi
Employability Specialist at YWJ