Project Officer – Youth Leadership Coordinator

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.

One of the main outcomes of the GreYAP project is the provision of catalytic funding to launch the UNDP Youth Sounding Board. In October 2020, UNDP Kenya launched the UNDP Youth Sounding Board (YSB), a multi-stakeholder all-inclusive platform of engaging directly with a small but highly representative and diverse panel of young women and men leaders, influential youth voices and representatives of institutions key to the implementation of youth development agenda in Kenya, product of consultations between UNDP and Ministry of ICT and Youth Affairs and modeled around similar initiatives by the United Nations System elsewhere. The Youth Sounding Board strives to embrace diversity as a critical mechanism to ensure that different opinions are brought to the table and that issues affecting young people, as well as their aspirations, are well represented for integrated solutions. The Board has pre-selected representatives and is co-chaired between UNDP and the Chief Administrative Secretary Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs. The YSB members come from diverse sectors and backgrounds and represent various institutions like: Council of Governors, National Youth Council, Kenya Private Sector Alliance, UNICEF, UNFPA and FAO.

The four core elements of the YSB Work Plan involve the following:

i. Advocacy, Communication and Engagement ii. Influencing UNDP Programming from Project Design to Implementation iii. Linkages to relevant ecosystems within the youth-serving space iv. Enhanced leadership skills and development for transformational youth leadership UNDP is therefore seeking to hire a National UNV as a Project Coordinator to coordinate the implementation of the YSB Work Plan.

Under the direct supervision of the Portfolio Analyst (Inclusive Growth), and working closely with the UNDP Youth Working Group, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Prepare and implement the YSB work plan and ensure that the programmatic, procurement and financial reporting follows UNDP guidelines. • Organise and participate in youth engagement activities with diverse stakeholders to facilitate efficient advocacy, communication, and engagement of the YSB with relevant youth demographics. • Support partnership and resource mobilization efforts to scale the activities of the YSB. • Facilitate logistics and consultations on technical outputs and activities as per the work-plan of the YSB. • Coordinate intra and inter agency and government consultations on implementation of youth empowerment activities under the YSB as well as the broader scope of the UNDP Youth Working Group, UN Inter-Agency Youth Working Group and Generation Unlimited to enhance programme impact on youth. • Develop visualization and visual information products (info graphics, fact sheets etc) to support programme planning, monitoring, reporting, and decision making and provide value-added dissemination. • Support the mapping of the youth ecosystem, partners, and stakeholders in Kenya for initiatives and services related to the YSB work plan and youth development as a whole. • Contribute to planning and implementation of YSB activities including coordination across UNDP projects and programmes. • Support in development of YSB knowledge products (blogs, articles, newsletters, reports etc). • Provide other support and assistance as required.

Results/Expected Outputs • Effective support for YSB activities including but not limited to the 4 core elements of the work plan. • Monthly progress reports on YSB Work Plan implementation. • Develop monthly knowledge product on the progress of the YSB for wide dissemination with relevant stakeholders. • Strengthened partnerships and operationalisation of the YSB as a platform for meaningful youth engagement at a UNDP programmatic level for increased youth development and empowerment in Kenya.

Accountability. Adaptability and Flexibility. Building Trust. Client Orientation. Commitment and Motivation. Commitment to Continuous Learning. Communication. Creativity. Empowering Others. Ethics and Values. Integrity. Knowledge Sharing. Leadership. Planning and Organizing. Professionalism. Respect for Diversity. Self-Management. Technological Awareness. Working in Teams.

Youth development, community participation, and project management.

The Republic of Kenya is an equatorial nation on the coast of East Africa, neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Indian Ocean. Kenya has two levels of Government; National Government and 47 sub-national Governments called Counties. Counties are further divided into sub counties. Kenya is a multi-party state with Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Kenya’s population of more than 40 million is growing at an annual rate of 2.2%. The country’s GNP per capita estimated at purchasing power parity (PPP) is $975, and the GNP is growing at an average rate of 0.1% annually. More than 26% of Kenya’s people live below the international poverty line of $1 per day. Kenya’s main food crops are “maize, wheat, pulses, roots and tubers.” (FAO). Nairobi is a modern metropolitan city where most basic goods and services, health facilities, public transport, telecommunication and banking services and educational facilities are readily available. The city is widely connected through its main airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and the smaller Wilson Airport. Air transport is also available to many up-country destinations. The city is home to some 3,000 UN personnel mainly attributed to the fact that it serves as the headquarters for both the UN HABITAT and UNEP. The socio-economic and cultural background of the immediate society the UNV would be living and working in is diverse and prevailing security conditions at the place of assignment is modest. The topographic and climatic features of the assignment location is highland cool and warm tropical climate.