Internal Only: Programme Specialist - Youth Engagement Specialist (P-4), Generation Unlimited - Education, PG, NYHQ

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

UNICEF has partnered with leading public and private organisations to launch a global partnership dedicated to expanding opportunity for young people, aged 10-24. Generation Unlimited (GenU) is centered on finding new ways to help every young person to get into school, learning, training or employment by 2030 — with a focus on those in the greatest danger of being left behind, including girls, the poorest, those with disabilities, young people on the move and those affected by conflict and natural disasters. GenU brings together leaders from governments, UN agencies, the private sector, academia, international and civil society organizations, and young people themselves. The partnership will identify, co-create, resource and scale-up innovative solutions to expand opportunity for young people. Effective programmes will be matched with financing and technical support; investors will find viable solutions to invest in and strong accountability mechanisms that provide adequate assurance of results and fiscal management; and young people will participate meaningfully in the co-creation of solutions, informing, advising and helping implement at every step of the way.

For every child, education……

You will be responsible for the effective implementation of youth engagement in countries, programmes, advocacy and partnerships. You will report to the GenU Global Head of Programmes (Principal Adviser) and works across the GenU Global Team and with the Education and Adolescent Development Programme Group as well as GenU Leadership Council and Young People’s Action Team.

Under the direct supervision of the Principal Adviser, GenU Programmes, you will work closely with the Programme team to ensure that young people are proactively and meaningfully involved in the decision-making process of GenU at a global, regional and country level, and throughout GenU’s impact areas while also supporting the development of programming in the space of entrepreneurship and youth engagement. The position will help to strengthen the engagement of young people in the Public Private Youth Partnership (PPYP) governance, in-country programmes and partnerships, and in the achievement of targets of GenU’s impact area results and innovative models.

How can you make a difference?

Tasks and accountabilities will include the following:

1. Mainstream meaningful youth engagement

• Oversee the implementation of the Public Private Youth Partnership (PPYP) strategy by developing guidance, tools and approaches for countries and partners on how to create opportunities for young people to be involved in influencing, shaping, designing and contributing to the development of GenU;
• Provide technical support and implementation of the PPYP model by supporting GenU countries to design, plan, implement and monitor meaningful youth engagement practices, delivery of results, and drive youth engagement systems and structures with the GenU partnership landscape;
• Develop concrete engagement opportunities for GenU’s Young People’s Action Team, Global Leadership Council young members, as well as young Board Members to actively and systematically engage in programmes and partnerships in GenU at the global as well as at country level, based on the GenU PPYP strategy;
• Develop knowledge products on youth engagement for partners, young people and GenU countries to document lessons learnt and good practices on youth engagement initiatives;
• Create and facilitate a peer-to-peer learning environment for young people

2. Develop youth engagement programmes

• Develop, manage, and support program creation and rollout of initiatives within youth entrepreneurship and youth engagement, as part of GenU’s Impact Area #3 – Boosting Entrepreneurial Skills and Opportunities and Impact Area #4 – Youth as Changemakers;
• Ensure that all GenU global programmatic initiatives have a meaningful youth engagement component;
• Oversee the implementation of global signature solutions, i.e., imaGen Ventures;
• Ensure collaboration with GenU’s Global Volunteer Initiative to realize the goals of meaningful youth engagement in-country.

3. Develop youth partnerships and networks

• Develop new partnerships and maintain existing ones within the Impact Areas of Entrepreneurship and Youth Engagement;
• Continuously collaborate with UNICEF’s Education section and the Adolescent Development and Participation office, along with GenU partners;
• Ensure collaboration with youth organizations as part of GenU’s Impact Area #4 – Youth as Changemakers - such as, YMCA, Scouts, WAGGGs, SOS Children’s Village, AU Youth Envoy’s Office etc.;
• Ensure collaboration with organizations as part of GenU’s Impact Area #3 – Boosting Entrepreneurial Skills and Opportunities – such as, GAME, TEF, IKEA Foundation, Aflatoun, UNEP etc.;
• Ensure youth in GenU structures are featured in partnerships, advocacy events, and participate in internal and partner events, fora, webinars etc

To qualify as a champion for every child, the candidate must have…

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: adolescent development, international development policy, public policy, human rights, education, anthropology, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field.
• Minimum eight (8) years of solid relevant work experience at the national and international levels in programme planning, management, monitoring and evaluation in youth engagement, entrepreneurship or another field, with emphasis on working for and with young people, programme guidance, technical support, networking and partnerships.
• Strong oral and written English communication skills.
• Direct work experience with youth organisations and young people is an asset
• Strong IT skills and fluency with Microsoft Office Suites, SharePoint, and other programmes is highly desired.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a second UN language (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”