Adolescent, Youth Skills and Employability Specialist

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

For 75 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection, and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments. UNICEF Angola promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child. Together with our partners, we focus our efforts on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children. In Angola, UNICEF is the leading voice and advocate for children’s rights. The focus of UNICEF’s programme in Angola is aimed at addressing the needs of vulnerable families and children. UNICEF follows an equity-based approach, to ensure that most marginalised or disadvantaged children are not left behind.

Under the direct supervision of Chief of Education the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

1. Support UNICEF and the Government of Angola to strengthening programming for youth in Angola, with a focus on skills, employability, entrepreneurship, with a focus on young girls and PWD: a) Technical support to the rollout of the training manual on transferable, employment and entrepreneurial skills and its digitalisation and integration in distance and digital learning platforms; b) Provide content and technical assistance to support the implementation of SMS Jovem (based on U-Report, an SMS platform for youth), in particular, promoting access to skills and employment for vulnerable adolescents and young people (girls, young women and people PWD); c) Accompany the process of youth participation in the Alternative Digital Learning to Earning initiative (based on the Better Together for Africa initiative) and the digital youth engagement roadmap; d) In coordination with UNICEF’s Social Behavior Change (SBC) section, provide technical support for the SBC strategy, which seeks to increase access to education and employment opportunities for young women, including girls with disability; e) Provide technical, administrative, and logistical support to other activities related to the youth skills and employment agenda;
   f) support the implementation of the recommendations identified under the Landscape Analysis of the youth ecosystem.

2. Support UNICEF CO in the development and implementation of the GVI: a) Conceptualize, design and implement volunteer initiatives with government, development partners and CSOs with the aim of furthering the learning to earning youth agenda. b) As part of the UNICEF Volunteer Initiative, create new opportunities of engagement with existing government institutions that support volunteering. c) Work with CO teams to develop integrated strategies for engagement opportunities. d) Monitor and document ongoing volunteer projects and explore new opportunities for future engagement with volunteers. e) Explore, conceptualize, design and implement partnerships with government agencies, selected private sector companies and corporative, civil society organisations, development partners, with the aim of furthering the participation of adolescents and young people in learning to earning opportunities; f) Undertake on-going field visits to UNICEF project sites to support monitoring of effective-ness, efficacy, impact and sustainability of volunteer and other project activities, including private sector partnerships. g) Support capacity-building efforts of key partner at all levels of society to ensure better pro-gramming and national planning regarding the learning to earning agenda and the GVI; h) Analyze and evaluate data on partnerships and volunteer initiatives to ensure achievement of objectives and/or take corrective action when necessary to meet project and programme objectives. i) Coordinate all activities regarding strategic partnerships and volunteer initiative within UNICEF Office. j) Document best practices, lessons learned and success stories.

3. Support strengthened relationships with government and CSO partners in the education sector, including strengthened partner capacity to accurately monitor and report on activities with a gender- and disability-inclusive lens: a) Provide capacity building to partners on planning, monitoring and evaluation in key areas, such as data disaggregation, participatory

Accountability Adaptability and Flexibility Building Trust Commitment and Motivation Empowering Others Integrity Planning and Organizing Respect for Diversity Self-Management Working in Teams

programme planning, management, and/or research in education is required. Experience working with young people and with teams to develop, deliver, and optimize successful youth participation. Working with volunteer initiatives is considered an asset. Strong interpersonal communication skills; attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines with a commitment to quality Knowledge and skills working with HRBA, child rights, social inclusion, gender issues, child participation and strategic partnerships is an asset. Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.

Angola is classified as a “B” Duty Station. This means that the Country is safe, but we need to be cautious. The Security Focal point for our Office is the Chief Operations. The United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) will cater for our safety.