Overview
The Programme Analyst, Youth leads the design, coordination, and oversight of UNFPA’s youth portfolio, including the strategic and operational management of UNFPA-supported Youth Centres. The role ensures youth programming is integrated across various interventions to safeguard and advance adolescents’ and young people’s health, protection, and wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of youth programming within the Country Office portfolio, ensuring integration across Reproductive Health (RH), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), social norms and resilience initiatives.
- Provide technical support on adolescent and youth engagement approaches, including life skills, youth participation and community-based interventions.
- Support the development of guidance, tools and programme approaches to strengthen youth-focused programming across UNFPA interventions.
- Assist in identifying innovative and sustainable solutions to integrated youth programme designs and implementation.
- Ensure the effective functioning and quality assurance of UNFPA-supported Youth Centres as platforms for youth engagement, life skills and wellbeing services.
- Monitor implementing partners to ensure delivery of planned activities and compliance with programme, financial and safeguarding standards.
- Contribute to strengthening the capacity of implementing partners involved in youth centre programming.
- Support the preparation and management of annual workplans, budgets and implementing partner agreements related to youth programming.
- Monitor progress of programme activities, identify implementation challenges and identify solutions and mitigation measures.
- Conduct field visits and assessments to monitor programme implementation and inform programme improvements.
- Contribute to programme reporting, documentation of lessons learned and knowledge sharing.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with local authorities, community stakeholders, youth networks and civil society partners to support programme implementation.
- Coordinate with relevant UNFPA programme units to ensure integration of youth interventions across programme areas.
- Oversee the Adolescents and Youth coordination bodies including providing technical guidance for the Adolescents and Youth Working Group chaired by UNFPA.
- Participate and contribute in relevant coordination mechanisms and results group, and assist CO senior leadership through sharing of analysis, advocacy briefs and technical inputs as required.
- Contribute to the preparation of programme documentation, donor reports and briefing materials related to youth interventions.
- Support resource mobilization efforts through inputs to proposals and programme development processes.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor or designated authority.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the field of development or humanitarian programming are required.
- Work experience in the field of Reproductive Health is preferred.
- Specialized knowledge and experience in Youth Development approaches will be desired.
- Experience in programme/ project management including experience in large multi-sector programmes is desirable.
- Prior experience in the UN system is an asset.
- A thorough understanding of the UN system in general, and especially UNFPA mandate, its policies and operations and current development topics and political issues in Afghanistan will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team is required.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in gender studies, youth development, international development, and/or other related social science fields is required.
