Youth Engagement (Adolescent) Officer, NOB FT, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, #130081

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For each little one, Hope!

In latest years, UNICEF has positioned higher emphasis on partnering with adolescents particularly women and younger individuals (women and boys) not as beneficiaries however as companions in growth. UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 acknowledges the entire spectrum of younger individuals, together with younger adults or younger individuals over 18, and consists of in its Change Strategies “supporting younger individuals and kids as brokers of change. Taking its cue from the strategic plan, the Global Communication and Advocacy Strategy 2019−2021 (GCAS) asserts the vital function that younger individuals, together with adolescents, can play within the profitable supply of UNICEF’s mandate, and highlights the necessity to hearken to, co-create and collaborate with them and create significant engagement alternatives for them to make a distinction. As vital drivers of change, kids, adolescents, and younger individuals are important companions and contributors to the event and implementation of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022 2025. With an bold new Strategic Plan, UNICEF intends to make a deliberate dedication to totally interact kids, together with adolescents and younger individuals, in creating options to speed up the achievement of the SDGs and driving change ahead. The voices of adolescents, particularly women, might be an vital ingredient in altering social norms together with gender norms. Indeed, research have demonstrated the excessive vulnerability of adolescents, notably adolescent women. They expertise the numerous challenges that include being in-between ages.  As tomorrow’s adults, a partnership with youngsters will be certain that the achievements of our interventions are maintained.

How are you able to make a distinction? 

This function will help Burkina Faso UNICEF nation workplace to develop, implement and monitor efficient and interesting advocacy campaigns involving adolescent and younger individuals. Under the management of the Programme Manager (Gender-Social Behavioral Change-Youth Engagement), P4, the function will assist the event and implementation and monitoring of adolescent and youth advocacy marketing campaign methods, partnerships administration, and content material creation.

This workers member will assist the event of efficient, built-in methods for Adolescent and youth engagement and participation in advocacy and campaigning. They will work collaboratively with colleagues throughout groups, in addition to with exterior companions, to create significant alternatives for Adolescent and younger individuals to take motion in assist of kids’s rights by means of UNICEF’s programmes and precedence initiatives.

Duties embody:

1. Adolescent and Youth Engagement and participation technique growth and implementation:

• Assist within the growth of Adolescent and youth engagement and participation methods to attain SMART outcomes.
• Contribute to the event of methods for participating adolescent women to attain transformative change in gender norms for his or her well-being.
• Support the implementation of capability constructing and information administration efforts. Assist within the growth of trainings and workshops; and develop and disseminate case research and different information administration merchandise.

2. Adolescent and Youth Engagement Platform administration:

• Support content material moderation, group administration, content material creation and M&E for Adolescent and youth centered digital platforms/communities. Assist within the native coordination and implementation of U-Report contemplating the nation’s particular challenges.

3. Youth Advocates:

• Support the implementation of an area Youth Advocates programme: researching potential youth advocates; supporting workplan growth and communication; supporting youth advocates in preparation for occasions/media; documenting learnings and successes.

4. Adolescent and Youth Engagement M&E:

• Support the monitoring and analysis of Adolescent and youth engagement methods, and platforms. Assist within the preparation of related stories.

5. Project and funds administration:

• Support the day-to-day supply of key tasks/ workstreams, growing and monitoring mission plans to make sure progress and tackle obstacles and bottlenecks. Support efficient funds administration, projections and monitoring.
• Stakeholder engagement/useful resource mobilization:
• Research present and potential companions. Assist and keep a database of formal and casual partnerships and networks whose assist is crucial to reaching targets. Support the stream of data to key stakeholders.
• Participation within the preparation of proposals and notes for useful resource mobilization with donors.

7. Others:

• Undertake different key obligations as required.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have…

Minimum necessities:

• Education: A University diploma in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, International Relations, International Development, or one other associated subject or a associated subject.
• Work Experience: A minimal of two (2) years of related skilled work expertise in advocacy/ campaigning and communications centered on Adolescent and younger individuals is required.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in French and good working information of English are required. Knowledge of an area language is an asset.

Desirables:

• Experience in supporting the event and implementation of Adolescent and youth engagement methods, with particular, measurable and timebound targets and efficiency indicators.
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting and/or managing tasks to completion, together with growing and implementing clear processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing content material for Adolescent and youth audiences and/or group moderation of youth centered platforms.
• Experience in supporting the efficient functioning of a crew.
• Knowledge of kids’s rights, public coverage, worldwide growth and humanitarian points.
• Understanding of the precise challenges of adolescents and younger individuals on the whole and adolescent women particularly.
• Knowledge of kid safeguarding and ethics of working with kids and youth.
• Experience working for an advocacy or campaigning group e.g. nationwide or worldwide NGO, UN or different multilateral group is an asset.
• Experience in supporting coaching and facilitation is an asset.
• Experience working in a growing and emergency surroundings is an asset.

For each Child, you display…

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The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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