United Nations SDSN Youth Regional Focal Point for Africa & Asia-Pacific Region 2025 – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for the United Nations SDSN Regional Focal Point for Africa & Asia-Pacific Region 2025. The function of the Regional Focal Point (RFP) serves to assist the Global Youth Networks of SDSN Youth in every of the 4 areas. All Network Coordinators should comply with an oversight with their respective RFP. The duty of every RFPs is to assist the Network Coordinators by making certain the implementation and alignment of their work with the SDGs, foster development and scaling of their networks, promote regional cooperation, and drive new initiatives on localizing SDGs of their area.

Linking to the worldwide construction, the RFP studies on their area’s exercise and its metrics by usually attending calls with Global Networks Management.

Responsibilities

• Promoting collaboration amongst NCs throughout the area to drive collective motion.
• Act as the focus between the nationwide/regional networks and SDSN Youth;
• Support the work of the NCs and supply steerage as wanted on matters like venture administration, communications, helpful instruments and comparable;
• Ensure the monitoring and reporting of the actions and initiatives occurring within the youth networks;
• Encouraging information-sharing and partnerships inside the area.
• Look for regional alternatives for the networks.
• Driving and supporting new initiatives targeted on localizing the SDGs to deal with regional priorities.
• Linking regional actions to the worldwide construction by usually reporting on progress and metrics.
• Attending calls with the Global Networks Management to offer updates and guarantee alignment with international objectives.
• Ensuring that Network Coordinators’ actions are carried out successfully and align with the SDGs.
• Supporting NCs to establish alternatives for scaling initiatives.
• Answer emails in a well timed method and hold common communication with the Networks Team.
• Organizing Monthly Regional Calls to create a devoted house for:
  • Sharing updates on regional and international actions.
  • Discussing ongoing initiatives and greatest practices.
  • Connecting and strengthening relationships between NCs.
  • Raising challenges, issues, or alternatives for collaboration.

Benefits

This is an extremely rewarding function that may allow RFPs to develop their information, harness their abilities, and are available throughout a sequence of life-altering alternatives that will embrace:

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

Eligibility

• Experience with administration of groups and tasks.
• Based within the Africa area or Asia-Pacific area for not less than 12 months after the application date.
• Previous connections with member organizations/establishments and/or SDSN (Youth) Networks are a plus.
• Aged between 18 – 30 as a way to be eligible for this function.
• Possess a wonderful command of the English language, together with writing, talking and listening.
• Has earlier expertise in scholar/youth management.
• Has an important curiosity in sustainable improvement, and is passionate concerning the mission of SDSN, together with the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on local weather change.
• Demonstrates the time and assets to decide to this function.
• Has had some type of both skilled or volunteer work expertise, notably with group administration, venture coordination, occasion administration or stakeholder engagement.
• Has some expertise working with numerous communications and administration software program, similar to Google Suite.

Application

For extra data, go to United Nations SDSN Regional Focal Point.