Apply to become the United Nations SDSN Youth Deputy Network Coordinator – Southeast Asia – YOA

Deadline: Ongoing

Apply to become the United Nations SDSN Youth Deputy Network Coordinator – Southeast Asia. The Network Coordinators (NC) is the consultant of SDSN Youth inside their Regional/ National SDSN Network. The NC is a key place in understanding the state of youth mobilization in the direction of the SDGs of their given area – performing as the key native level of contact for something youth and SDG associated of their area/nation.

The Deputy Network Coordinator is a vital assist function inside the SDSN Youth community, serving as a significant backup to the Network Coordinator. Their major duty is to help the Network Coordinator of their every day operations, offering administrative assist, and serving to to handle the community’s actions and stakeholders.

The Deputy Network Coordinator can also be anticipated to fill in for the Network Coordinator in the occasion of their absence or departure, guaranteeing a seamless continuity of operations and minimizing disruptions to the community. This function requires robust organizational and communication abilities, in addition to the potential to work independently and collaboratively with the Network Coordinator and different staff members.

Responsibilities

• Assist the NC on program administration
  • Oversee the improvement and implementation of Youth Program actions in the community and their particular nation.
  • Assist in creating a piece plan and following up frequently to be sure that actions are on monitor.
  • Contribute to constructing on collaborations to establish acceptable alternatives for implementation of the Youth Program.
• Assisting on working every day operations of the community;
• Contributing to guaranteeing significant members and stakeholder engagement;
• Ensure the monitoring and reporting of the actions and initiatives occurring in the youth community;
• Assist in managing an inventory of stakeholders and their wants, challenges, abilities, and experience
• Admin and Governance
  • Assist your community’s communication channels: e mail, social media, mailing lists, and so on.
  • Researching, documenting, and sustaining the contributions of SDSN Youth in the community.
• Communicate successfully with the NC, and keep the double- reporting line to the Network Managers and SDSN Youth;
• Act as the focus when NC will not be out there.

Note: As a digital community, it’s IMPORTANT for Network Coordinators and Deputy Network Coordinators to talk successfully inside the community. In this vein, they are going to be anticipated to:

• Attend the month-to-month name with the Regional Focal Point, quarterly name with the Global Coordinators, and some other related calls with some other staff members;
• Communicate successfully the networks and its members’ actions by means of a double-reporting line to the Network Managers and SDSN Youth.

Benefits

In turning into part of the staff as a Deputy Network Coordinator, people can be accountable for creating and fostering robust relationships on campuses round the nation/area so as to drive youth-led and youth-centered options to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is an extremely rewarding function that can allow Network Coordinators to develop their information, harness their abilities, and are available throughout a collection of life-altering alternatives which will embody:

• Representing SDSN Youth at totally different ranges at any time when attainable and if acceptable;
• Attending world conferences and resolution-making processes at any time when attainable and if acceptable;
• Be concerned in coverage evaluation and reporting at any time when attainable and if acceptable;
• Engage with key stakeholders from authorities, NGOs to non-public sector;
• Build a private model round sustainability and the SDGs;
• Publish articles and blogs about causes they care about at any time when attainable;
• Work in a multicultural surroundings and be immersed in a world office;
• Receive capability-constructing trainings to develop personally and professionally at any time when attainable;

Eligibility

The Deputy Network Coordinator can be somebody who:

• Enjoys downside-fixing and works properly with individuals,
• Is in a position to work autonomously
• Able to talk successfully
• Is in a position to handle a number of streams of labor

Minimum {qualifications}:

• Must be primarily based in considered one of the following international locations: Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, or Timor Leste
• Must be primarily based in the respective nation/area for no less than 12 months after the application date;
• Must be a scholar or positioned at a member group/ host establishment as listed here;
• Must possess a wonderful command of the English language (official working language at SDSN Youth), together with writing, talking, and listening.
• Must exhibit the time and sources to commit to this function – candidates with too many overlapping commitments can be exempt from working for this place
• Must have an ideal curiosity in sustainable improvement, and is enthusiastic about the mission of SDSN and SDSN Youth, together with the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on local weather change;
• Has earlier expertise or a powerful curiosity in scholar/youth management;
• Has had some information or type of both skilled or volunteer work expertise, significantly with campaigning, neighborhood mobilization, challenge coordination, occasion administration or stakeholder engagement.

Application

This place can be primarily based in Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar, or Timor Leste. The first time period is 12 months in complete, with a 3-month trial interval in the starting. However, topic to a evaluation of labor efficiency, this place could also be prolonged.

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For extra info, go to UN SDSN Youth.