Overview
Manages UNFPA’s work on adolescents and youth, working to ensure every young person’s potential is fulfilled, to accelerate achievement of the ICPD Programme of Action and Agenda 2030. Leads technical and policy advice in the area of adolescents and youth and ensures linkages with other UNFPA programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on adolescents and youth, and position their rights and needs within broader development dialogues.
- Represent UNFPA and promote the rights and needs of adolescents and youth in high-level meetings.
- Keep abreast of policy and legal developments affecting adolescents and youth.
- Identify policy gaps and translate knowledge into concrete policy recommendations.
- Support policy dialogue with Government, UN and other development partners.
- Represent UNFPA in technical forums and participate in technical networks.
- Provide technical guidance on inclusive programming for adolescents and youth.
- Identify opportunities to position adolescent and youth development within broader development frameworks.
- Advocate for increases in national/state budgetary allocations for adolescents and youth.
- Contribute technical inputs to communications materials for advocating for adolescent and youth development.
- Represent UNFPA in inter-agency initiatives on adolescents and youth.
- Provide inputs to content for visibility of UNFPA’s work and achievements on adolescents and youth.
- Identify potential funding opportunities and develop proposals.
- Maintain partnerships with donors.
- Contribute to formulation of the gender component of the country programme.
- Manage the adolescents and youth programme component work plans development, implementation and monitoring.
- Work with implementing partners, experts, government counterparts and other UN agencies in programme intervention design and delivery.
- Assist the Country Office in engaging with and representing UNFPA in relevant UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) Results Groups.
- Coordinate and contribute to UN-wide and development partner dialogues, joint initiatives and programmes.
- Promote disability-inclusive approaches in programming.
- Support humanitarian response interventions in the area of adolescents and youth.
- Lead the documentation of lessons learned and best practices.
- Identify and participate in communities of practice and share new approaches.
Required Experience
- Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience at the advisory/managerial level in managing adolescent and youth programmes;
- Demonstrable technical expertise in adolescents and youth development and participation, with knowledge of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and comprehensive sexuality education;
- Strong understanding of reproductive rights and gender equality dimensions in policy and programme formulation, implementation and monitoring;
- Proven experience in coordinating/managing a multi-disciplinary team of staff, experts and consultants;
- Familiarity in communicating in a clear and articulated manner, technical and/or complex issues to different types of audiences;
- Proven ability to communicate and engage with adolescents and youth;
- Demonstrated ability to network within the adolescent and youth sector, including with youth networks;
- Demonstrated experience in coordination and liaison with government counterparts, non-government organizations, UN agencies, private sector, development partners and CBOs.
- Experience in humanitarian response is an asset.
Qualifications
• Advanced degree in Public Health, Sociology, Gender, International Development, or related disciplines;
