Request for Applications: Mindanao Job Opportunities for Business Scale-Up (JOBS) for Philippines

Deadline: February 29, 2012

Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Philippines, is issuing a request for applications (RFA) for the Mindanao Job Opportunities for Business Scale-Up (JOBS) for Philippines.

HED expects to make one (1) award of up to $1,071,500 for three (3) years for a higher education partnership between a higher education institution(s) in the United States and Southern Christian College (SCC) in Mindanao, Philippines. The purpose of the partnership will be to strengthen the capacity of SCC to develop the job skills and improve the livelihoods of rural, out-of-school youth (OSY) in Mindanao.

Online Information Session: HED is organizing an online information session on December 7, 2011, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. EST (7:30-8:30 a.m. Manila time) with representatives from USAID/Philippines and SCC for interested applicants. Potential applicants will have an opportunity to submit questions concerning this RFA during the online information session, but are strongly encouraged to send questions in advance of the session. Applicants are asked to register for the information session no later than close of business day (COB) December 2, 2011, by sending an email with questions about this RFA to Brooks Marmon at bmarmon@hedprogram.org.