Youth Engagement 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 bonus”- are key to Indonesia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that children, adolescents and youth (young people) have the right to be heard in matters affecting them – and have the right to have their views taken into account. Children and young people have shown that when they are given meaningful and authentic opportunities to participate, they can make a difference in the world around them; they have ideas, experience and insights that can make a positive contribution to their society, including on policies and programmes that will shape their country’s future. 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. To do that, UNICEF Indonesia supports an engagement model by creating Mitra Muda youth network and utilizing U-Report.

Through the creation of the Mitra Muda, UNICEF aims to provide adolescents and youth with opportunities and platforms that support their civic engagement journey through various online and offline activities. Bringing together existing youth networks in the country and leveraging their resources for greater impact.

U-Report is the digital communication platform led by UNICEF to engage with young people. It conducts poll regularly to understand young people’s perceptions on issues that matter to them and provides information portal to give curated information and micro-learning platform. In Indonesia, the chatbot is live via direct message in WhatsApp Messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, while the digital campaigns are available in social media feed in Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

The UNV will be placed in the UNICEF Indonesia Social Behavior Change and Youth Engagement unit of Communication cluster, working closely with Adolescent Focal Points across the office. Under the guidance of the supervisor, the UNV will be expected to work cross-sectoral with other UNICEF clusters (health, child protection, social policy, education, etc.) and at the subnational level.

Under the direct supervision of Communication Officer on Youth Engagement, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Maintain and monitor the day-to-day engagement with Mitra Muda members, including liaising with respective colleagues at Indonesia Country Office (in Jakarta) and at Field Offices, as well as other colleagues/partners working with UNICEF Indonesia.

Support the advocacy and programme implementation on young people’s participation across programme clusters by proposing Mitra Muda’s active roles in relevant initiatives strategically.

Assist the development and implementation of Mitra Muda’s working agenda as it fits UNICEF Indonesia’s priorities, including but not limited to reviewing, mentoring, and linking to relevant advocacy and commemoration opportunities.

Provide capacity building support to the core team of the Mitra Muda youth engagement network and other members of the network.

Support the linkages of Mitra Muda with civil society partners, youth-led organizations and other UN agencies on adolescent and youth issues.

Strengthen team spirits among Mitra Muda members through online and offline engagements, and provide the needed coaching and mentoring support.

Support the implementation of U-Report Indonesia, ranging from the technical process in RapidPro, creative content production and online community management in social media, and the scaling strategy for U-Reporters recruitment.

Contribute to the knowledge management to document lessons learnt and good practices on the adolescent and youth participation initiatives, especially for the Mitra Muda’s involvement.

Support any relevant Communication and Public Advocacy initiative related to adolescent and youth engagement.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:

Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);

Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;

Provide annual and end of assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.

Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;

Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;

Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organisations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

Results/expected outputs:

Mitra Muda network is engaged meaningfully in UNICEF Indonesia’s programmes U-Report platform in social media and bot system maintained, including creative content strategically produced and the numbers of U-Reporters recruited growing. Participation in adolescent and youth related meetings/events and meeting notes provided, highlighting key summaries and action points. Effective and timely support for office wide, cross sectoral adolescent and youth engagement/programming. The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs); 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

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

     working with young people and designing creative content, including creative writing for blogs ( with interest and experience)
Experience of working in the creative sector is desirable.
Experience working with young people and communities is essential.
Relevant experience working in an international context and technical bot development is considered as an asset.

The position will be based in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where basic living needs, including accommodation, banking facilities, medical facilities and telecommunications/internet services are readily available. All staple foods can be found in the markets, e.g.: rice, meat, vegetables, fruit, cooking oil, salt, etc.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials in the duty station. National UN Volunteers are part of the insurance plan (medical, life, permanenet disability), including recognized the primary family unit (dependents) if applicable.

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.

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