Employment and Training Unit

The vocational training and employment unit was established as a specialized technical unit in JCI in 2009 with the aim of providing appropriate employment for the industrial sector on the one hand and meeting the industrial sector's need of workers on the other hand as well as partnering with governmental and international agencies within the scope of those goals in order to provide a qualified, trained and sustainable Jordanian workforce in the industrial sector while ensuring the availability of an appropriate work environment.

The Unit's Strategic Objective

Enhancing the competitiveness of Jordanian industrial establishments by providing the appropriate manpower for their needs as well as creating an appropriate legislative environment and directing it towards best practices for a suitable work environment in order to achieve the main principles of work (training, operation, guidance).

Unit Tasks

1.  Managing vocational training centers, developing their work mechanism, tools, and the curricula they offer to produce a workforce that matches the needs of different industrial sectors.

2.  Representing the industrial sector in the councils, committees and bodies working to design vocational and technical education and training policies.

3.  Contribute to drawing and developing legislations and laws related to the labor market.

4.  Designing joint programs with international organizations to enhance the employment-ending training programs.

5.  Networking between industrial companies and their needs and job seekers of various specializations and levels.

6.  Ensuring the provision of a decent work environment for Jordanian labor in the industrial sector to ensure its continued working.

International Projects and Programs

To achieve the client's strategic tasks and goals, the Chamber is working to design joint programs with international organizations and donors to enhance training and employment programs especially those that the JCI seeks to develop. JCI has worked with a number of supporting bodies, most notably; The International Labor Organization, the Federation of Danish Industries, and the German Agency for International Cooperation within integrated projects aimed at enabling the unit and strengthening the role of the JCI in the field of training, employment and guidance.

JCI has also focused most of its attention recently on directing the supporting bodies towards developing the work of vocational training centers which JCI obtained the right to manage through a memorandum of understanding with the Vocational Training Corporation according to which the Chamber was authorized to manage four training centers for the most prominent industrial sectors that need qualified labor which are as follows; The wood and furniture industries sector, the leather and garment industries sector, the chemical and cosmetic industries sector, the packaging sector.

The following are JCI most prominent projects that were recently worked on with a number of international bodies:

1.  A career-oriented vocational training project in cooperation with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Vocational Training Corporation with the aim of training Jordanian youth and Syrian refugees in the profession of carpentry at a skilled level, while ensuring that they are employed in the post-training phase in the factories registered in the industrial chambers.

Perhaps the most prominent output of this project, included: developing a vocational training center for wood and furniture industries in Marka through its rehabilitation, providing it with the necessary equipment and devices to develop training outputs, developing and preparing curricula for the carpenter’s profession in accordance with international best practices in addition to starting to train a first batch of youth for 6 months including 3 months in factories as well as providing them with all the requirements of occupational safety and working to connect them with factories after the end of their training period.

               

2.  Assigning a consulting agency by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to enhance institutional and individual capabilities in the vocational and technical education and training sector with a focus on the Training, Employment and Vocational Guidance Unit in the JCI by providing career guidance and counseling services to its beneficiaries in addition to giving the best visualization of the JCI organizational structure based on scientific principles and clear estimates appropriate for the nature of the work.

3.  Preparing a study to analyze the job skills gap related to energy consumption and management in the food, catering, agricultural and livestock industries sector in Jordan in cooperation with the Danish Industries Federation which included an accurate description of the food sector needs of trained workers within the scope of energy and renewable energy systems management.

4.  Preparing a directory of energy-related job skills in the food, catering, agricultural and livestock industries sector in Jordan in cooperation with the Danish Industries Federation with a view to directing trained and qualified youth and those looking for job areas related to energy applications in the target sector.

5.  Study the institutional development and capacity building of the Employment Unit in JCI in cooperation with the Danish Industries Federation which includes the current employment situation in the Jordanian industrial sector and a description of the status of vocational and technical education and training in Jordan and the chamber’s efforts in the areas of employment and the challenges they face in order to provide effective recruitment services in real partnership with the public sector.

For more inquiries and contacts:

Training and Employment Unit 

Eng : Osama Rayan

Osama@jci.org.jo

info@jci.org.jo

00962-6-4642649

Ex. 515, 230