Call for Candidates: Malawi – Youth Sounding Board (MW-YSB) 2025-2027 – YOA

Deadline: December 28, 2025

The Malawi Youth Sounding Board (MW-YSB) is an OPPORTUNITY for younger Malawians to be nearer to the European Union cooperation coverage, to make it extra participatory, related and efficient for younger individuals. The YSB is an area for creativity and exchanges that may enable members to offer their views and contribute to the work of the European Union in Malawi.

Given the promptly evolving coverage context following the elections, the Malawi Youth Sounding Board will play a pivotal function in advocating for priorities of the youth, promote job creation, vocational coaching, and entrepreneurship, that are important for assuaging youth unemployment. It will even deal with susceptible youth, by selling youth empowerment and employment by way of EU initiatives in Malawi and by strengthening connections with native and group-primarily based youth organizations. 

The MW-YSB will purpose to make EU motion extra participatory, related and efficient by way of finishing up the next (non-exhaustive) record of actions: 

• Ensure energetic youth involvement in dialogues and collaborations between the EU and Civil Society Organisations to advocate for youth views and priorities;
• Contribute to the roll-out of programmes particular actions related for youth particularly within the space associated to employment and entrepreneurship growth;
• Supporting EU initiatives within the nation by accumulating youth feedbacks on these Actions, with the target of making certain that these align with the wants and expectations of the youth;
• Enhance youth data on EU work in Malawi in addition to contribute to the dissemination of data on programmes benefitting Malawian youth, together with on sectors associated to youth employment, abilities growth and schooling;
• Create actual partnerships with comparable constructions and present networks in Malawi, and probably globally, facilitating collaboration and sharing of studying alternatives. 

Benefits

Participation to the MW-YSB is on a voluntary foundation. Notwithstanding, the EU Delegation in Malawi will reimburse prices incurred by members within the implementation of all of the actions organised within the context of the MW-YSB.                

The MW-YSB will additional: 

• Participate in trainings to accumulate the required data to carry out advert-hoc actions;
• Hold no less than 4 conferences a yr with the entire Youth Sounding Board;
• Participate in actions and discipline visits organised by the EU Delegation;
• Provide experiences and feedbacks all through the 2 years mandate.

Eligibility

• Be Malawian nationals resident within the nation, between 18 and 30 years of age;
• Be artistic, motivated and able to contribute to an excellent functioning of the Board;
• Have a eager curiosity in growth cooperation and particularly in these areas prioritised by the EU in its partnership with the Government of Malawi, together with in schooling/Technical, Entrepreneurial, and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) and employment;
• Have an excellent command of spoken and written English.

Application

The choice course of might be carried out in two phases:

• First stage: solely shortlisted candidates might be knowledgeable on the end result of the primary stage (shortlist) of the application by January 9, 2026 (tentative).
• Second stage: shortlisted candidates might be invited for interviews by January 15, 2026 (tentative).

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For extra data, go to MW-YSB.