COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD NOTICE

The Dominica Employment and Small Business Support Agency is seeking training proposals from experienced and qualified training facilitators in Culinary Arts to conduct one of its apprenticeship training modules for the financial year 2012/13.

The culinary arts training module should run for a minimum period of two months targeting young unemployed men and women between the ages of 18 to 40 years old desirous of establishing their own small businesses.

Prospective facilitators are asked to submit detailed course outlines for the eight week training period along with their curriculum vitae, three references, letters from the Dominica Social Security and Inland Revenue Division indicating satisfactory compliance with monthly returns.  Proposals shall have within their course outlines and budgets a minimum of 75% locally grown food items as inputs and the level of competence apprentices would  acquire in preparing creative Dominican cuisines, and at least one exotic Italian, Indian, Mexican, and Chinese cuisine.

Prospective training facilitators are asked to submit their training proposals inclusive of budgets and other requested documents to:

The Executive Director

Dominica Employment and Small Business Support Agency

1^st Floor Financial Centre

Kennedy Avenue

Roseau

Commonwealth of Dominica

Deadline for the submission of proposals is Tuesday April 30, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.

The successful training facilitator will enter into a contractual arrangement with the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Employment.

The facilitator shall be responsible for:

- Participation in the selection of apprentices at apprentices interviews.

- The teaching of safety in all aspects of culinary arts training.

- The maintenance of order and discipline at the training centre.

- Working along with the Executive Director in completing all trainee mid-

term and end of module assessments.

- Submitting all end of module assessment forms, which must be fully

completed and submitted to the Executive Director, Dominica

Employment and Small Business Support Agency no later than one week

before the end of the training module.

- The maintenance of course records (attendance, achievements etc.)

- The reporting of all loss or damage items to the Executive Director,

Employment and Small Business Agency no more than three days

following such incident. Failure to   report such losses may result in the

facilitator having to compensate for these items.