The USAID Workforce for an Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem (WISE) Activity is USAID Vietnam’s effort to support innovative ways to develop the workforce readiness sector by supporting the country’s burgeoning market for training workers in Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) skill sets. The goal of the WISE activity is to pilot solutions that can improve Vietnam’s 4IR workforce readiness status. WISE seeks to collaborate with its government partner the National Innovation Center (NIC), the private sector, not-for-profit training institutions, employers, and other relevant stakeholders to innovate, test, and expand market-driven, sustainable models for a more competitive workforce to facilitate Vietnam’s transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
As part of the NIC’s strategy for supporting Vietnam’s innovation ecosystem, it developed the Hoa Lac National Innovation Center, located in the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park outside Hanoi. With an initial focus on smart factories, digital content, network security, smart urban areas, and environmental technology, the Center hopes to attract 40 large technology companies, 150 start-ups and SMEs, 15 venture investment funds and create more than 5,000 jobs – developing an innovation ecosystem to support the national economic reform agenda and sustain the impressive economic growth of the country and the region.
The project will develop a plan for private sector engagement to effectively use Hoa Lac National Innovation Center space and services to become the center of excellence in promoting innovation and digital human resources. To achieve the above goals, USAID WISE is looking for qualified consultant with the following scope of work.
WISE seeks to hire a private sector engagement consultant and a legal consultant to work with the NIC/WISE team to develop a plan for engaging private partners to effectively use the Hoa Lac Innovation Center.
Please refer to the attached scope of work for more information.
Application should be submitted to Ms. Van Anh, [email protected] [3]
Please use the subject line “WISE- Application for the Private Sector Engagement Consultant position/ “WISE- Application for the Legal Consultant position”.
Deadline for application: 5:00 PM Hanoi time, March 6th, 2023.