Gender and Adolescent Development Officer

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.

Indonesia has 65 million young people (out of 264 million population, or 28%) aged 10 to 24 years, including 46 million (18%) adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. This high proportion of young people – often called the “demographic dividend”- are key to Indonesia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the State, as the ultimate duty-bearer, has obligations to create an enabling environment that allows the views of children, adolescents and youth to be heard on practices and policies that directly or indirectly concern them. This is why a crucial part of UNICEF’s mandate is to provide young people with opportunities and platforms through which adolescents and youth can build skills, identify their priorities, communicate in their own way and learn from their peers so they are better equipped to take an active role in society. UNICEF Indonesia's strategy for engagement with young people seeks to ensure that they are able to drive positive change – social, economic, political – in their societies. To do that, UNICEF supports an engagement model that promotes active citizenship by supporting adolescents and youth to act on issues that matter for their future. In doing so UNICEF supported many platforms for example, U-Report, Child Forum and the youth network “Mitra Muda”.

Working with adolescents and young people is intrinsically linked with gender equality work. UNICEF’s new Gender Action Plan, places adolescent girls’ well-being and leadership at the centre of its work. Adolescence marks the onset of puberty and a critical transition for cognitive development as well as the start of experimentation with new ways of behaving. It also marks transitioning into a time of risk-taking as well as taking on greater responsibilities. Moreover, it is during adolescence that gender norms are established, transformed or rejected. The second decade of life is also when inequities become more evident. For example, adolescent girls from poor families are particularly at risk of child marriage, which affects 1 in 9 girls across the country. Girls may also risk missing school as they begin menstruation and become victims of bullying. Boys are also impacted by bullying and are especially at risk of physical attacks in schools (32%). Many adolescents have a limited understanding about their reproductive health and HIV/AIDS and this puts them at high risk of having unwanted pregnancies, or contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Finally, although literacy rates are high, adolescents in secondary school are still at risk of dropping out of school because of financial issues, pregnancy or marriage. At the heart of these challenges, lies deep-rooted gendered social norms. In order to effectively support adolescents and young people, it is important to integrate a strong gender lens to our work.

The UN Volunteer will report to the Youth & Adolescent Development Specialist and be part of the Front Office team. Under the guidance of the supervisor, the UN Volunteer will be expected to work cross-sectorally with other UNICEF programme and units (communications, disability inclusion, Health, Nutrition, WASH, child protection, social policy, and education, etc.).

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Youth & Adolescent Development Specialist or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Gender and Adolescent Development Officer will:

• Support the Youth & Adolescent Development Specialist in coordinating data collection and reporting for the Covid-19 Situation Report, Donor reports and other related reporting requirements. • Support the roll-out of key methodologies for adolescent participation such as Adolescent Kit and ADAP Training Modules and relevant modules on gender-responsive programming to support this area of work of field offices and sections at UNICEF Indonesia. • Support the Adolescent and Gender Focal Points in different programme areas across the office in promoting adolescent participation and gender equality as the office’s cross-sectoral priority and other cross-sectoral priorities in the office (such as: disability inclusion and climate change). • Support the dissemination of the Situation Analysis on Child and Adolescent Participation and Civic Engagement looking at variety of angles including policy, technical, and institutional lenses, to inform policies and programme, especially in terms of coordination and partnership across sectors and stakeholders. • Coordinate the development of office-wide knowledge products on adolescent development and gender equality, including sectoral recommendations for integration into cluster workplans.
• Promote adolescents and young people engagement, including in facilitating co-creation and participatory design process • Promote the engagement of Youth Networks and Women’s groups in programme planning, monitoring, and implementation, as well as research and advocacy, including in humanitarian settings. • Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

Results/expected outputs:

As an active UNICEF team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including: • Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed

• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development; • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Sound security awareness.

professional work experience at the national and/or international level in adolescent and youth empowerment, gender equality or other relevant programmes; experience with young people and or women’s groups is an asset, as is experience working in the UN or other international development organization; • Other desired/mandatory required technical knowledge as per the below: • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills; • Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; • Have affinity with or interest in adolescent empowerment and gender equality volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials.

-National UN Volunteer Specialist receives approximately IDR 8,237,403.08 as Monthly Living Allowance. -Provided with assignment travel cost and entry lumpsum if applicable. -Enrolled in health, life, disability insurance. -Applicable dependents (primary family unit, up to 3) are eligible for health insurance. -Entitled to annual leave, 2.5 days per month. -Provided with exit lumpsum to support transition at the end of assignment.

For more information about UNV Conditions of Service and Entitlements, please refer to the following:

-https://www.unv.org/become-volunteer/volunteer-your-country -https://www.unv.org/sites/default/files/unvpf/UNVcos2021%20Complete%20hi-res-final_compressed_30.08.2021.pdf