Federal Government Recruitment of 500,000 Unemployed Graduates (N-Power Programme)

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Job Title: N-Power Teacher Corps Programme (N-Power Health)

Location: Nationwide
Start Date: 1st August
Duration: 2 years (Participants will undergo an initial induction training prior to deployment)

Certification: National Skills Qualification (NSQ)

N-Power Teacher Corps Programme By The Federal Government

N-Power Teacher Corps Programmes
The N-Power Teacher Corps will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates. It is a paid volunteering programme of a 2 year duration. The 500,000 graduates under the N-Power Corps programme will get computing devices that will contain information necessary for their specific engagement, as well as information for their continuous training and development. Participants will provide teaching, instructional, and advisory solutions in key area such as “Health“.

Over View
Through the N-Power Health programme, young graduates who form part of the 500,000 N-Power Corps members will be trained to work as public health assistants. They will teach preventive health to community members including pregnant women, children, families and individuals. They will also be trained to provide basic diagnostic services.

Programme participants would be trained to provide the following essential services:

  • Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
  • Diagnose and investigate basic health problems and health hazards in individuals and the community.
  • Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
  • Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
  • Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
  • Educate on laws, regulations and policies that protect health and ensure safety.
  • Link people to needed personal health services.

In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.

Jobs
At the end of the two-year programme, you may seek further opportunities in the following occupations in an employee or self-employed role:

  • Health Education Specialist
  • Health Promotion Coordinator
  • Public Relations Manager
  • Breastfeeding Support Coordinator
  • Health Office Administrator
  • Health Research Analyst
  • Social Worker & Counselor
  • Health Services Manager
  • Health Department Administrator
  • Government Policy Analyst
  • Displaced Persons Coordinator
  • HIV/AIDS Educator
  • Project Manager in Public Health
  • Field Investigator
  • Research Analyst
  • Community Health Worker

Course Details – Core Employability Skills
Communication:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Writing and presenting written and verbal reports
    • Role Plays
    • Demonstrations
    • Working in groups

Induction Skills:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • To be communicated before commencement of training

Team Work: 

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Team or group projects
    • Learning sets
    • Group discussion
    • Syndicates
    • Communities of practice

Problem Solving:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Case studies
    • Simulations
    • Investigative projects and research
    • Using various problem solving tools and techniques
    • Developing or designing models
    • Problem solving in teams and networks
    • Decision making activities

Initiative & Enterprise:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Brainstorming activities
    • Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions
    • Initiating change/design change processes
    • Simulation activities

Planning & Organizing:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Research and data collection
    • Developing action plans
    • Planning and organizing events
    • Time management activities
    • Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks
    • Collecting and analyzing information

Self-Management:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Development of portfolios
    • Work plans
    • Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance
    • Career planning exercises

Learning:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Reflective journals log books, diaries
    • Mentoring and coaching activities
    • Self-evaluation tools

Technology:

  • Competencies/Learning Strategies:
    • Using the Internet, Intranets
    • Using ICT skills to complete activities
    • Industry relevant software, technology and equipment

Induction Skills:

  • To be communicated before commencement of training

General Requirements

  • N-Power aspires to provide a platform where most Nigerians can access skills acquisition and development. At this time however, the initial modular programmes in N-Power are designed for Nigerian citizens between the ages of 18 and 35.
  • You will need to meet the minimum requirements (if any) for your respective programme. Generally, selection is based:
    • On your expression of a genuine interest in whichever area you decide;
    • Passing the relevant tests;
    • Your willingness to push yourself beyond your comfort zone; and
    • Ability to show a flair to develop all the skills you need to be the best you can be.
  • While there are fixed requirements along the way, we will be relying on you to take ownership of the process and take the lead in shaping your route, by making the most of the training that you will receive.
  • For the purposes of N-Power, Graduate means having a minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) or a Bachelors Degree from a higher institution.

Criteria

  • Currently Unemployed
  • Must be a graduate ( any field or profession )
  • Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
  • Aged 18-35
  • An interest in public health
  • You should be a caring individual, interested in the health and safety of others and of good temperament



How to Apply



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Note:
 Registration Starts on Saturday 11th June, 2016.


Federal Government – 500,000 jobs are available for unemployed graduates, and another 100,000 jobs for non-graduates as the President Buhari-led federal government today, kicked off its 500,000 free jobs for Nigerians.

In a statement signed by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is set to begin taking applications online for positions in the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an internet portal named npower.gov.ng.

The statement from the vice president office said on Wednesday that the 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed N-Power Teach on the portal, is one of the three direct job creation and training schemes Nigerians can start applying for from Sunday, June 12.

Others are N-Power Knowledge, which will train 25,000 Nigerians in the area of technology, and N-Power Build, which train another 75,000 in the areas of building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and gas services. **All trainees would be paid for the duration of their training, the statement said;

Below is the statement in full:

“The N-Power Teacher Corps initiative, which will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of a two-year duration.

“Unemployed Nigerians selected and trained will serve in teaching, instructional, and advisory roles in primary, and secondary schools, agricultural extension systems across the country, public health and community education – covering civic and adult education.

“Besides their monthly take home pay estimated at about N23,000, the selected 500,000 graduates will also get computer devices that will contain information necessary for their specific engagement, as well as information for their continuous training and development. They get to keep the devices even after exiting the programme.

“According to the plan of the Buhari administration, the N-Power Teacher Corps programme is an invaluable opportunity for young Nigerians to make immense economic and social contributions to the nation while developing their skills. It will also help to address the problems of inadequate teachers in public schools.

“Also, persons enlisted under the scheme will gain work experience and acquire key competencies through academic and non-academic capacity building programmes intended to improve their competitiveness in the workplace. Their devices will come loaded with knowledge-oriented applications and software that will enable them acquire the skills and capacity.

“Under the N-Power Knowledge scheme, there are three aspects: Creative, Technology Software and Hardware. These three sub-divisions would will train 25,000 young Nigerians in all.

“Five thousand of them would be trained in animation, graphic design, post-production, script-writing. All of those under the sub-division of N-Power Knowledge-creative category.

“The N-Power Knowledge scheme also has a technology category in two aspects: hardware and software. Ten thousand Nigerians will be trained, and equipped in the area of software development, including web designers, and another 10,000 in hardware expertise, including to repair, maintain and assemble mobile phones, tablets, computers and other devices.

“Also the N-Power Build category was designed realizing that the presence of a well-trained and highly skilled youth population in any economy has direct impact on entrepreneurship/wealth creation, which in turn leads to a decline in unemployment.

“N-Power Build is therefore an accelerated training and certification (Skills to Job/Enterprise) programme that will engage and train 75,000 young unemployed Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals.

“There are other schemes in the Buhari presidency Social Investment Programmes which would soon be rolled out in the coming weeks. These include the Conditional Cash Transfer that pays N5000 monthly to one million Nigerians, the Micro-Credit Scheme for more than 1.5 million Nigerians, the Home Grown School Feeding programme that will serve 5.5 million Nigerian pupils in primary school a free hot meal per day this year and the Education Support Grant Programme for 100,000 tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics, STEM and education.” 


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