Overview
The consultant will lead the integration of local university entrepreneurship training content into the Youth Agency Marketplace (YOMA) digital platform to scale youth access to entrepreneurship training. The role involves brokering partnerships and developing incentives for opportunity listings, as well as supporting project management.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the integration of local university entrepreneurship training content into the YOMA digital platform.
- Conduct content assessments, cost-impact analysis, and negotiate partnership terms.
- Broker partnerships across private, public, and civil society sectors to build a pipeline of gig and work opportunities for the YOMA impact marketplace.
- Develop incentives to encourage opportunity listings.
- Support project management and coordination for the broader project.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years’ work experience including mid-to-senior professional roles within:
- National youth development interventions
- Civil society or private sector led youth-support programmes
- Advisory boards /steering committees focused on youth livelihood support
- Education programme and/or curriculum design for youth
- Digital learning ecosystems or EdTech platforms.
- Programme Management within government or private sector
- Partnerships, resource mobilization, stakeholder engagement, negotiations
- Previous experience delivering national strategies, digital support platforms, governance frameworks, and policy advisory reports.
- Strong knowledge of youth unemployment challenges, youth livelihood and empowerment trends, youth in governance, and labour market trends.
- Experience negotiating with higher education institutions and training providers.
- Knowledge of assessing cost versus impact (return on investment modelling) for development initiatives.
- Experience working with digital talent marketplaces, gig economy platforms, learning management systems (LMS) and youth-facing digital platforms.
- Strong negotiation skills in complex institutional environments.
- Experience engaging corporates, SMMEs, Civil society organisations, and Government stakeholders.
- Evidence of prior involvement in stakeholder mapping, facilitation of workshops and consultations, and synthesis of complex information into tangible actions.
- Familiarity with partnership models and incentive frameworks.
- Experience with labour market systems analysis, skills and demand forecasting, and unpacking employer needs.
- Demonstrates ability to translate employer needs into technical platform requirements, operational recruitment workflows and matching algorithms.
- Strong programme management experience.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stream programmes.
- Experience working with UN agencies and Government.
Qualifications
• Master`s degree in Higher Education, Development Studies, Economics, Public Policy, Public Administration, Business administration, programme management, Digital Innovation, Youth Development Studies
