UNOPS Youth Engagement Platform – Youth Advisory Member Role (Global Youth Leadership Opportunity)

About the Opportunity

The UNOPS Youth Engagement Platform (YEP) affords a singular and prestigious alternative for younger leaders who need to affect international improvement and contribute on to UNOPS’ strategic decision-making. As a YEP Member, you’ll convey genuine youth views into high-level discussions, analyse rising traits affecting younger individuals, and form insurance policies, programmes, and organisational priorities.

This function is designed for younger changemakers who need to strengthen their management, deepen their understanding of worldwide improvement, and contribute meaningfully to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Important: Participation is voluntary. Compensation is supplied just for journey undertaken on behalf of UNOPS.

Why This Role Is Exceptional

• Influence UNOPS’ international insurance policies and strategic frameworks.

• Collaborate with UN leaders, technical specialists, and youth advocates worldwide.

• Gain expertise in coverage evaluation, public talking, inclusive advocacy, and strategic advisory work.

• Represent youth views in regional and worldwide boards.

• Contribute to shaping a extra youth-inclusive UNOPS tradition.

This platform supplies uncommon, high-profile publicity to the UN system and an opportunity to assist construct improvement options that replicate the realities of younger individuals throughout areas.

As a YEP Member, you’ll function a youth advisor to UNOPS management. Your contributions will assist make sure that insurance policies, methods, programmes, and operations replicate the wants, priorities, and lived experiences of younger individuals globally.

You will:

• Analyse rising SDG-related challenges affecting youth.

• Provide insights on UNOPS methods and initiatives.

• Recommend youth-inclusive and intergenerational options.

• Represent UNOPS youth views in inner conferences and chosen worldwide occasions.

This advisory function strengthens your expertise in management, diplomacy, youth engagement, coverage evaluation, and multilateral improvement processes.

Participation is not remunerated, however journey prices for official illustration are coated.

1. Generate Youth-Led Insights on SDG and Development Trends

The YEP operates as a youth intelligence hub for UNOPS.

You will:

• Identify international and regional traits affecting younger individuals in areas equivalent to infrastructure, local weather resilience, procurement, fragility, and mission administration.

• Provide speedy youth-lens evaluation to strengthen UNOPS’ methods and foresight work.

• Contribute lived-experience insights to inner opinions and strategic updates.

2. Provide Strategic Advisory Input to UNOPS Leadership

You will assist combine youth views into UNOPS governance, coverage, and initiative improvement.

Key duties:

• Review main methods, frameworks, and flagship initiatives from a youth, DEI, and intergenerational fairness perspective.

• Participate in advisory consultations with UNOPS’ Executive Director and senior leaders.

• Develop actionable suggestions to boost youth engagement and relevance.

3. Advance Youth Representation in UNOPS External Engagement

In this thought management and illustration function, you’ll:

• Represent youth views in chosen worldwide and regional boards.

• Contribute to advocacy messages, talking factors, and panel discussions.

• Support UNOPS’ participation in system-wide youth initiatives aligned with the UN Youth Strategy (Youth2030).

4. Strengthen Youth-Inclusive Operational Approaches

Help UNOPS enhance youth participation and benefit-sharing in its programmes and operations.

You will:

• Provide suggestions on mission design and administration approaches.

• Identify youth-engagement finest practices and classes discovered.

• Promote protected, moral, and significant youth engagement throughout UNOPS tasks.

Education

Required Experience

Applicants should exhibit:

• Youth management or group engagement
  (youth organisations, activism, volunteer teams, pupil initiatives, social-impact tasks).

• Participation in youth platforms
  (youth summits, Model UN, youth councils, SDG-youth consultations, regional youth networks).

• Experience representing youth views
  (talking at boards, advocacy actions, group engagements, peer-led initiatives).

• Exposure to SDG points or worldwide improvement
  (via coursework, volunteering, lived expertise, on-line youth networks).

• Ability to collaborate throughout various teams
  (crew tasks, on-line communities, youth organisations, multicultural settings).

Desired Experience (Not Mandatory)

• Experience with the UN system, international improvement, or multilateral processes.

• Contributions to youth coverage discussions, thematic working teams, or advocacy campaigns.

• Involvement in youth initiatives on local weather, gender, schooling, governance, or social justice.

This alternative is right for younger people who find themselves:

• Passionate about sustainable improvement and the SDGs.

• Motivated to affect insurance policies affecting youth globally.

• Skilled in communication, important considering, evaluation, and collaboration.

• Eager to achieve publicity to the UN system and international improvement management.

• Interested in amplifying youth voices in high-level decision-making areas.

The UNOPS Youth Engagement Platform is greater than a volunteer advisory function—it’s a house the place younger leaders can form international improvement priorities, be taught immediately from UN specialists, and affect methods that have an effect on thousands and thousands of younger individuals worldwide.

If you’re dedicated to driving youth-led influence and contributing to a extra inclusive future, that is an impressive alternative to develop, contribute, and lead.

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