Adolescents and Youth Skills and Employability Specialist

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This is the third year of implementation of the three-year Country Programme (CP) of cooperation 2020-2023. The overall goal of the country program is to support the Government of Angola to meet its commitment to respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights in line with international conventions and standards. The vision is for all girls and boys in Angola, especially the most marginalized, including those with disabilities and from poor households, to realize their rights. The CP takes an integrated, convergent and lifecycle-based approach with the following components: (a) Outcome 1: early childhood (0-5 years); (b) Outcome 2: school age children (6-18 years); (c) Outcome 3: decentralized support to social services; and (d) Outcome 4: program effectiveness. This assignment will support activities being implemented by the Education section under Outcome 2. In particular, the Adolescents and Youth Skills and Employability Specialists will work in two key areas: (1) youth skills and employability; (2) Global Volunteer Initiave. In the area of adolescent and youth skills and employability, UNICEF is promoting the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Initiative with UN Agencies and Development Parners to strengthen skills development and foster job creation for youth aged 10 - 24. GenU aims to deliver impact in 4 key areas, namely: Skills & Employment, Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Connectivity. In Angola, the GenU agenda will build on existing work on strengthening employment opportunities and entrepreneurship for youth and promoting youth equity and participation, leaving no one behind and ensuring opportunities for girls and people with disability (PWD). GenU brings together the private sector, governments, UN agencies, foundations, financing organizations, civil society and young people by: i) attracting investment at global and national levels; ii) scaling innovations, brokering investments and partnerships in digital connectivity, remote learning and work, entrepreneurship, job-matching platform, mental health, the green economy; iii) co-creating solutions with youth. Currently UNICEF is undertaking relevant initiatives that will contribute to the launch of GenU in the country: (a) a landscape analysis on the youth ecosystem, mapping existing initiatives and future opportunities to promote skills, employment and entrepreneurship; b) the development of a training module on life and job skills, that will be used to strengthen capacities in the skills approach to trainers of the National Institute of Professional Training (INEFOP) and the National Institute of Teacher Training (INFQE); c) the promotion of digital platforms to connect young people with training and employment opportunities, focusing on young girls; and d) the implementation of a communication for development strategy in the municipality of Cazenga, using the U-Report platform (SMS-Joven). The second key area of support of the Specialist, is the Global Volunteer Initiative (GVI). UNICEF Angola office is looking to launch its volunteer program leveraging on the energy and ambitions of young people combined with the resources and support of other stakeholders in private sector, government and civil society organizations in line with the generation unlimited agenda. Through such volunteering opportunities and experiences, young people are in turn acquiring skills that set them up to better address these challenges but also prepare them for employment.

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.

REASONABLE ACCOMODATION

The UN system wishes to create an inclusive workplace and commits to taking appropriate measures to enable persons with disabilities to access and benefit equally from employment and other engagement opportunities such as volunteering, by providing reasonable accommodation. In this context, “reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 2]

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