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Youth Engagement Officer, Fixed Term, NO-2, Kyiv, Ukraine, #131246

Job no: 578006

Position kind: Fixed Term Appointment

Location: Ukraine

Division/Equivalent: CEE/CIS

School/Unit: Ukraine

Department/Office: Kyiv, Ukraine

Categories: Adolescent Development

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by means of adolescence.

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Join Adolescent Development And Participation (ADAP) crew at UNICEF Ukraine!

How are you able to make a differen c e?

In latest years UNICEF has elevated its give attention to younger folks. The UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2018−2021 acknowledges the entire spectrum of younger folks, together with younger adults or youth over 18, and consists of in its Change Strategies “supporting young people and children as agents of change.” Taking its cue from the strategic plan, the Global Communication and Advocacy Strategy 2019−2021 (GCAS) asserts the essential function that younger folks can play within the profitable realization of UNICEF’s mandate, and descriptions the necessity to take heed to, co-create and collaborate with younger folks and create significant engagement alternatives for them to make a difference. Being essential drivers of change, youngsters and younger persons are important companions and contributors to each the event and implementation of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022 2025. With a brand new and bold SP, UNICEF intends to be deliberate and dedicated in absolutely involving youngsters and younger folks in creating the options to speed up the conclusion of the SDGs and driving change ahead.

Organizational context The Youth Engagement Officer studies to Chief ADAP Section, who’s at Level P4.

Purpose of the job: This function will help Ukraine UNICEF workplace to develop, implement and monitor efficient and interesting packages on younger folks engagement and participation throughout sectors. Under the management of Chief ADAP Section the function will assist the event and implementation and monitoring of youth participation methods, partnerships administration, and capability constructing.

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:

• Youth Engagement and Participation technique growth and implementation
• Youth Participation content material growth
• Youth Engagement platforms administration (e.g. U-Report)
• Young People Advisory Board
• Safeguarding and participation
• Youth Engagement M&E
• Project and finances administration
• Youth Engagement capability constructing & Knowledge Management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Others

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

Duties embrace: 1. Youth Engagement technique growth and implementation: Assist within the growth of youth engagement methods to realize SMART outcomes.

2. Youth Participation content material growth: Assist within the growth and implementation of methodological content material and technical experience with and for youth as part of programmatic and advocacy priorities.

3. Youth Engagement Platforms administration: Support content material moderation, neighborhood administration, content material creation and M&E for youth targeted platforms/communities. Assist within the native coordination and implementation of U-Report.

4. Young People Advisory Board: Support the functioning of Young People Advisory Board: researching potential youth advocates; supporting workplan growth and communication; supporting youth advocates in preparation for occasions/media; documenting learnings and successes.

5. Safeguarding and participation: Ensure adherence to ideas of child/youth participation and safeguarding when helping within the growth/implementation of all campaigns, packages and platforms.

6. Youth Engagement M&E: Support the monitoring and analysis of youth engagement methods, campaigns and platforms. Assist within the preparation of related studies.

7. Project and finances administration: Support the day-to-day supply of key initiatives/ workstreams, creating and monitoring venture plans to make sure progress and handle obstacles and bottlenecks. Support efficient finances administration, projections and monitoring.

8. Youth Engagement capability constructing & Knowledge Management: Support the implementation of capability constructing and data administration efforts. Assist within the growth of trainings and workshops; and develop and disseminate case research and different data administration merchandise.

9. Stakeholder engagement: 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 move of data to key stakeholders.

10. Others: Undertake different key duties as required.

Impact of Results

The effectivity and efficacy of assist offered by the Youth Engagement Officer:

• Increased capability to have interaction younger folks as advocates and champions for youngsters’s rights by means of flagship campaigns and platforms. ehgXr7j BIpnb
• Strategic, revolutionary, efficient and interesting packages with elevated and sturdy participation of younger folks, in the end serving to to realize key advocacy targets for the group.
• A optimistic social norms change amongst younger folks, laying the groundwork for sustained supporter engagement.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

Education:

University diploma in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, International Relations, Social Policy, International Development, or one other associated discipline.

Work Experience:

• At least two (2) years of related skilled work expertise in advocacy/ programming or communications targeted on younger folks is required.
• Experience in supporting the event and implementation of youth engagement methods, with particular, measurable and timebound targets and efficiency indicators.
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting and/or managing initiatives to completion, together with creating and implementing clear processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing content material for youth audiences and/or neighborhood moderation of youth targeted platforms.
• Experience in supporting the efficient functioning of a crew.
• Knowledge of youngsters’s rights, public coverage, worldwide growth and humanitarian points.
• Knowledge of child safeguarding and ethics of working with youngsters and youth.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English and Ukrainian is required.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
• 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 creating and emergency setting is an asset.
• Knowledge of one other official UN language or an area language is an asset.

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up 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

(8) Nurtures, leads and manages folks

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We supply a variety of measures to incorporate a extra various workforce, equivalent to paid parental go away, day off for breastfeeding functions, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice can be canceled.

Remarks

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is vital to ship one of the best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate folks with disabilities are inspired to apply.

Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account info.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the put up within the related practical space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates.

Eligible workers members on fixed-term, persevering with or everlasting contracts making use of to IP TA positions in an obligation station designated as L2/L3, could possibly retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements, topic to approval by their Head of Office. The circumstances of the short-term task will range relying on the standing of their put up and relocation entitlements could also be restricted as per the related insurance policies.

Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered right here.

This place relies in Kyiv and the incumbent can be anticipated to work on-site. However, relying on the safety circumstances and advisory, s/he can be required to relocate inside Ukraine.

Advertised: Dec 20 2024 FLE Standard Time

Application shut: Jan 08 2025 FLE Standard Time