Overview
Provide technical assistance, incidence, and advocacy on Citizen and Development Participation of Adolescents in health services, adolescent health, and identities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical assistance to implementing partners on immunization, nutrition and integral health issues and advocacy to municipal and state governments.
- Provide technical assistance and training to municipal technicians on health and nutrition issues.
- Collaborate on dissemination and training of anti-racism practices within health public service for early childhood.
- Provide technical advocacy for the establishment of adolescent health programs in Primary Health Care units.
- Contribute to strengthening the adolescent participation component of the School-Education Programme.
- Contribute to the implementation of the online Pode Falar initiative for mental health support.
- Contribute to promote adolescents’ right to participate at the local level.
- Provide technical assistance to IPs and other partners on engagement and activism of adolescents and young people issues.
- Implement UNICEF strategy to promote adolescent girls’ rights at the local level.
- Mobilize adolescents to get engaged in climate actions at the local level.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years (in total) of experience in Psychology for/with Adolescents, Mobilization and Development of Adolescents, Children’s Health, social and communitarian project management.
- Knowledge of adolescents’ development.
- Expertise in adolescents’ mobilization and participation at the community level.
- Background and familiarity with international human rights, children’s rights.
- Advanced knowledge of State and municipal governments and civil society organizations and the Children system of rights guarantee (SGD).
- Have affinity with or interest in children’s rights, Adolescent’s Development, and Health, Public policy planning.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and proven ability to facilitating interagency processes to achieve a common goal.
- Experience with traditional, originating and peripheric population, monitoring of human rights and advocacy is an asset;
- Computer and database literacy is an asset
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Social Work, Nutrition, Communication and other relevant areas e.g. Human Development and Human Rights.
