Overview
Provide strategic guidance and advice on outreach to adolescents’ constituencies, ensuring meaningful engagement of young women and girls in intergovernmental processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide substantive and strategic support to ensure young people’s engagement and leadership is mainstreamed in CSDs workplans.
- Provide strategic guidance and advice on outreach to adolescents’ constituencies.
- Support the technical implementation of young people’s programmes; provide technical advice; ensure synergies with other teams, develop knowledge products.
- Contribute to strategies and support the integrated participation of young people in multistakeholder processes as well as intergovernmental processes.
- Facilitate and support preparatory brainstorming and outreach meetings and activities with girl led groups and constituencies.
- Provide inputs into the implementation of the Civil Society Division Strategic Notes, UN Women Strategic Plan, resource mobilization proposals to ensure adolescents agendas are reflected.
- Support the strengthening of networks and knowledge sharing among young people to facilitate and increase communication between the constituencies.
- Support and contribute to the development of briefing and background notes across the Civil Society Division.
- Support and contribute to the development of the youth and adolescent safeguarding policy.
- Support the development of the knowledge product on findings and lessons learned, success stories and best practices, strategies and approaches of adolescent girl in intergovernmental processes.
- Work closely with the Youth Engagement Coordinator in monitoring youth planned activities in order to identify best practices as well as constraints/implementation bottlenecks and to take necessary actions to overcome the constraints.
- Support quarterly reports and donor reports, focusing on results, output and outcomes in relation to adolescent engagement.
- Support the advocacy and resource mobilization for youth and adolescent work by compiling and synthesizing relevant background material.
- Analyze and maintain information/ databases on potential and actual donors, specifically those active in supporting youth and adolescents.
- Provide data and information needed for preparation of project documents.
- Support the writing of proposals for the Civil Society Division.
Required Experience
- At least two years of research and civil society engagement with a particular focus on young people.
- Understanding of gender equality and women's empowerment.
- Understanding child protection issues and the Convention on the Rights of Child an asset.
- Familiarity with youth and girl-led organizations and international institutions.
- Experience working/interning in the UN system is an asset.
Qualifications
- A master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, international relations, communications, women's studies, or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
