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

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For each youngster, Hope!

In current 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 improvement. 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 youngsters as brokers of change. Taking its cue from the strategic plan, the Global Communication and Advocacy Strategy 2019−2021 (GCAS) asserts the necessary position that younger individuals, together with adolescents, can play within the profitable supply of UNICEF’s mandate, and highlights the necessity to take heed to, co-create and collaborate with them and create significant engagement alternatives for them to make a distinction. As necessary drivers of change, youngsters, adolescents, and younger individuals are important companions and contributors to the event and implementation of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022 2025. With an formidable new Strategic Plan, UNICEF intends to make a deliberate dedication to totally have interaction youngsters, 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, will probably be an necessary factor in altering social norms together with gender norms. Indeed, research have demonstrated the excessive vulnerability of adolescents, significantly adolescent women. They expertise the various challenges that include being in-between ages.  As tomorrow’s adults, a partnership with youngsters will make sure that the achievements of our interventions are maintained.

How are you able to make a distinction? 

This position 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 position will assist the event and implementation and monitoring of adolescent and youth advocacy marketing campaign methods, partnerships administration, and content material creation.

This employees 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 youngsters’s rights via UNICEF’s programmes and precedence initiatives.

Duties embrace:

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

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

2. Adolescent and Youth Engagement Platform administration:

• Support content material moderation, neighborhood 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 improvement 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 reviews.

5. Project and price range administration:

• Support the day-to-day supply of key initiatives/ workstreams, growing and monitoring undertaking plans to make sure progress and handle obstacles and bottlenecks. Support efficient price range administration, projections and monitoring.
• Stakeholder engagement/useful resource mobilization:
• Research present and potential companions. Assist and preserve a database of formal and casual partnerships and networks whose assist is crucial to reaching goals. Support the movement of data to key stakeholders.
• Participation within the preparation of proposals and notes for useful resource mobilization with donors.

7. Others:

• Undertake different key tasks as required.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should 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 data 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 goals and efficiency indicators.
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting and/or managing initiatives to completion, together with growing and implementing clear processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing content material for Adolescent and youth audiences and/or neighborhood moderation of youth centered platforms.
• Experience in supporting the efficient functioning of a crew.
• Knowledge of youngsters’s rights, public coverage, worldwide improvement and humanitarian points.
• Understanding of the particular challenges of adolescents and younger individuals typically and adolescent women particularly.
• Knowledge of kid safeguarding and ethics of working with youngsters 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 setting is an asset.

For each Child, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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Remarks:

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