Overview
The role is responsible for shaping the adolescent learning, skills, engagement, and earning agenda, positioning adolescent development as a cross-sectoral priority and ensuring coherence, scale, and impact across sections.
Key Responsibilities
- Shaping the adolescent learning, skills, engagement, and earning agenda.
- Positioning adolescent development as a cross-sectoral priority.
- Ensuring coherence, scale, and impact across sections.
- Accelerating pathways that prepare young people for lifelong learning, future livelihoods and meaningful civic/social engagement and action.
- Focusing on the most vulnerable amongst young people, including those affected by crisis, adolescent girls and young people living with disabilities.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in youth engagement, skills development, advocacy, communication, or program management within international or development contexts is required.
- Demonstrated experience designing or implementing youth focused programmes, including digital platforms, youth participation mechanisms, or skills-building initiatives is required.
- Proven track record in shaping or managing multi stakeholder partnerships, including with government, youth led organizations, civil society, private sector, or UN agencies is required.
Qualifications
- Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in social sciences, education, communication, development studies, or a related field relevant to youth engagement, skills development, or the Learning-to-Earning (L2E).
- A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
