Key Responsibilities
Technical
Leadership
- Lead and coordinate the development of the
programme’s youth engagement, participation and empowerment strategy,
ensuring that the necessary tools, guidelines, and SOPs are developed to
streamline the programme efforts.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to
programme partners, ensuring alignment on the meaningful youth engagement,
participation and empowerment agenda
- Provide overall leadership and coordination of
the youth civic engagement activities, including youth coalition formation
and rollout of youth advocacy activities and the overall meaningful
engagement of youth throughout the programme’s life cycle.
- Design and implement key strategies to increase
youth engagement, participation, and empowerment with critical
stakeholders, including national partners, local organizations, youth
networks, and individual leaders at local, regional and national levels
- Engage and advocate for youth inclusion in
national policy review and formulation for increased and sustainable job
creation for the youth within primary health care (PHC) sectors in the
programme implementation countries.
- Oversee and ensure that youth engagement,
participation and empowerment efforts and strategies are integrated across
all programme thematic areas;
- Provide strategic direction, development and
implementation of capacity strengthening plans to enhance the capacity of
staff, young people, youth networks, youth-serving organizations, and
government in youth engagement, participation and empowerment.
- Provide oversight in mainstreaming youth
engagement, participation and empowerment activities across programme
workstreams, and report progress to internal and external stakeholders to
promote accountability.
Driving the programme’s youth strategy
- Lead the development, management and oversight
of the programme’s youth engagement and accountability strategy
- Cultivate meaningful alliances with other youth
movement-building organisations and initiatives with similar goals in the
region to build momentum for the programme’s goal.
- Identify opportunities for regional
cross-learning between the programme partnership, documentation and
sharing of successes and lessons learned.
- Support and coordinate the programme
stakeholders to develop and execute online campaigns to promote youth
engagement, participation and empowerment initiatives.
- Support the development and implementation of
youth engagement, participation, and empowerment strategies by building
communities and connecting networks to ensure advocacy efforts reach wider
and more diverse audiences.
Partnership,
Networking, and Collaboration
- Oversee the establishment of strategic
partnerships and alliances with other youth movements and groups, and
build relationships at the national, regional, and city levels
- Establish, link and strengthen youth
coordination platforms in the programme implementation countries and
regionally in close collaboration with the programme partners
- Establish, cultivate, and maintain relationships
with the youth ecosystem of programme stakeholders, including the public
sector, private sector, civil society, community-based organizations, and
local governments to advocate and influence meaningful youth engagement.
- At the request of the programme director,
represent the programme in collaborative platforms with diverse audiences
such as ministries of health, UN agencies, civil society organizations,
NGOs and private companies for programme visibility.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Minimum of a Master’s degree in communications,
social sciences, public health, public policy, international development
or other related fields from a recognized college or university;
- Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing
youth development activities, e.g., economic empowerment, basic and higher
education, health etc.).
How to Apply
