Support Generation Unlimited (GenU) to develop a flagship livelihoods model and practical tools for the Creative Academy, focusing on transitioning young people from skilling into earning opportunities.
Develop a flagship livelihoods model and practical tools for the Creative Academy. Inform GenU’s broader skilling-to-earning portfolio. Define operational frameworks for employment, freelancing, and entrepreneurship pathways. Develop practical tools and templates including guidance for portfolio development, partner mapping, pathway design, and country-level planning. Ensure the Creative Academy provides structured, flexible, and realistic pathways into earning.
Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in youth livelihoods, youth employment, workforce development, skills-to-work transitions, creative economy programming, entrepreneurship, or a related field. Demonstrated experience designing or supporting programmes that help young people transition from skilling into employment, freelancing, self-employment, entrepreneurship or other income-generating opportunities. Experience working with youth within the creative economy is an asset. Experience applying youth livelihoods, workforce development or skills-to-work approaches to creative, digital or adjacent sectors. Experience developing practical programme frameworks, guidance, tools or templates for use by country teams, implementing partners, governments or private sector stakeholders. Experience supporting multi-country or large-scale programmes in international development contexts is desirable. Experience undertaking partner mapping, ecosystem analysis or stakeholder analysis related to employment, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, workforce development or youth economic opportunity.
Advanced (Master's) university degree in international development, education, economics, public policy, workforce development, livelihoods, creative industries, entrepreneurship, social innovation, or a related field.
