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Egypt, home to 27 million younger folks aged 10-24, stands at a pivotal juncture in its demographic evolution. With projections indicating that the youth inhabitants will develop to 35 million by 2030, the nation has a singular alternative to capitalize on its demographic dividend. However, to totally harness the potential of its youth, Egypt should give attention to key priorities: supporting the school-to-work transition, addressing gender inequality, and managing speedy inhabitants progress. These priorities are aligned with Egypt’s Vision 2030, which emphasizes youth empowerment and sustainable financial growth. In response to those challenges, UNICEF, in collaboration with the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, Silatech, and different strategic companions, has launched the ‘Green Visions and Thriving Futures’ programme. This initiative goals to empower youth in Egypt to take local weather adaptation motion and achieve employment. As such, interventions are designed to empower youth to contribute to their native economies whereas addressing urgent local weather challenges. By participating younger folks in sustainable group actions, job placement, and entrepreneurship, the challenge not solely addresses unemployment but in addition fosters financial progress by means of green-focused sectors. Interventions are designed to make sure that by the top of the partnership:

Young persons are empowered with data, abilities, and sources to positively interact in local weather motion of their communities. Learning to Earning pathways throughout Egyptian nationwide companies are strengthened, consolidated, and piloted. Adolescents and youth, notably women, study and purchase abilities to assist their transition from leaning to incomes. Young folks in Egypt are supported to achieve employment Strengthened PPYP governance construction'(Shabab Balad) to attain Learning to Earning (L2E) nationwide commitments in Egypt.

In mild of this formidable initiative, UNICEF Egypt is in search of to recruit an Adolescent Development Officer to assist the design, implementation, and coordination of those efforts. Given the dimensions and complexity of the programme, it’s critical to recruit extremely expert professionals with experience in youth employment, and extra in inexperienced abilities growth can be an asset. The roles required will give attention to bridging the hole between studying and incomes, guaranteeing that youth—particularly essentially the most deprived—have entry to the required sources, alternatives, and coaching to thrive within the inexperienced economic system.

How are you able to make a difference? 

You can be utilized in a Country Office (CO) the place the adolescent growth programme is a significant/key part of the Country Programme (or UNSDCF). You will report back to the Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) Specialist and play a key position in advancing UNICEF’s work on adolescent growth and participation throughout the Country Programme. This place ensures that the wants and alternatives of adolescents and younger persons are absolutely built-in into UNICEF’s programming, insurance policies, and partnerships. The Officer will assist the ADAP Specialist in managing the implementation of “Green Visions and Thriving Futures” guaranteeing that interventions are aligned with UNICEF’s objectives of youth and adolescent studying to incomes. Responsibilities embrace making ready, executing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme process.

Summary of key features/accountabilities:

• Support to programme growth and planning.
• Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes.
• Technical and operational assist to programme implementation.
• Networking and partnership constructing.
• Innovation, data administration and capability constructing.

1. Support to programme growth and planning.

• Provide technical experience in understanding pathways for younger folks into the labor market. Conduct evaluation of the talents sector and labor market tendencies to tell program design and guarantee alignment with nationwide and worldwide requirements on youth employability.
• Contribute to the design, implement, monitor, and consider youth growth packages with a give attention to employability, profession steerage, internships, apprenticeships, and pathways to employment and self-employment. Ensure packages are aligned with world greatest practices and tailor-made to the native context.
• Provide technical and operational assist all through all phases of programming processes by executing/administering quite a lot of technical, programme, operational and administrative transactions, making ready associated supplies/documentations and complying with organizational processes and administration techniques, to assist programme planning, results-based planning (RBM) and monitoring and evaluating outcomes.
• Prepare required programme documentations/supplies/knowledge to facilitate the programme evaluate and approval course of.

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes.

• Work intently and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to debate adolescent growth and participation operational and implementation points; present options, suggestions and/or alert applicable officers and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or choices. Keep file of stories and assessments for simple reference to seize and institutionalize classes realized.
• Participate in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme evaluations and annual evaluations with authorities and different counterparts to evaluate programmes/initiatives on adolescent and youth growth and participation and report on required motion/interventions on the greater stage of programme administration.
• Monitor and report on using adolescent and youth growth and participation programme sources (monetary, administrative and different property), confirm compliance with authorized allocation/objectives, organizational guidelines, laws/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity. Report on crucial points/findings to make sure well timed decision by administration/stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved points to make sure decision.
• Prepare common/mandated related programme/challenge stories for administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress.

3. Technical and operational assist to programme implementation

• Conduct common programme discipline visits and surveys and change info with companions/stakeholders to evaluate progress and supply technical assist, take applicable motion to resolve points and consult with related officers for decision. Report on crucial points, bottlenecks and potential issues for well timed motion to attain outcomes.
• Provide technical and operational assist to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on the application and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes and greatest practices on adolescent growth and participation associated points to assist programme implementation, operations, and supply of outcomes.

4. Networking and partnership constructing

• Ensure sturdy linkages and collaboration with different UNICEF groups and sections, together with Generation Unlimited (GenU), schooling, partnership, and External Communication, to create a cohesive strategy in direction of the educational to incomes agenda. This inner collaboration is important for selling multi-sectoral programming and guaranteeing that adolescents and youth are supported in all areas of their lives.
• Leverage world sources and networks to boost program effectiveness and assist youth transitions to the labor market.
• Map out and assist the identification of potentials non-public sector companions in coordination with the Public Private Partnership Section. • Support the design and implementation of a referral mechanism of younger folks to related employment or self-opportunities and guarantee a suggestions mechanism.
• Build and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with authorities counterparts and nationwide stakeholders by means of energetic sharing of knowledge and data to facilitate programme implementation and construct capability of stakeholders to attain and maintain outcomes on adolescent and youth growth and participation programmes.
• Draft communication and data supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnership/alliances and assist useful resource mobilization to make sure the adolescent and youth growth and participation programmes are adequately resourced and supported.
• Participate in applicable inter-agency (UNCT) conferences/occasions on programming to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNSDCF operational planning and preparation of adolescent and youth growth and participation programmes/initiatives and to combine and harmonize UNICEF place and techniques with the UNSDCF growth and planning course of.
• Research info on potential donors and put together useful resource mobilization supplies and briefs for fund elevating and partnership growth functions.

5. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing

• Develop and preserve efficient documentation and data administration techniques to facilitate studying, sharing of greatest practices, and steady enchancment in program implementation. Ensure that techniques improve communication amongst stakeholders and contribute to the general success of youth growth initiatives.
• ▪ Apply progressive approaches and promote good apply to assist the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes
• Research and report on greatest and cutting-edge practices for growth planning of information merchandise and techniques.
• Participate as useful resource particular person in capability constructing initiatives to boost the competencies of purchasers/stakeholders.

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

Minimum necessities:

• Education: A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: anthropology, psychology, sociology, schooling, or one other related technical discipline.
• Work Experience: 
• Minimum two years skilled expertise in program design, implementation, monitoring, and analysis particularly in adolescents and youth growth.
• Experience in understanding pathways for younger folks into the labour market, abilities sector and labour market evaluation.
• Experience in growing and sustaining documentation techniques that facilitate data sharing amongst stakeholders and improve programmatic studying.
• Experience in working inside UN packages, worldwide organizations, or NGOs, particularly within the areas of youth employment. 
• Experience in constructing and managing strategic partnerships with authorities entities (together with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Social Solidarity, Ministry of Environment, or related), non-public sector,… to design and implement packages targeted on youth abilities growth, engagement, and energetic participation. 
• Experience in fostering collaboration and drive multi-stakeholder initiatives that align with nationwide priorities. 
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency. 

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(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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