Overview
This role supports the implementation of youth empowerment initiatives, focusing on monitoring, reporting, and strategic partnerships. The purpose is to equip youth with future-ready skills, expand access to education and decent work, and strengthen their participation in decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and provide technical oversight for the monitoring of project activities.
- Establish, implement, and strengthen reporting mechanisms.
- Act as the technical focal point for Youth Empowerment, providing strategic guidance and quality assurance.
- Lead the collection, analysis, and interpretation of project data.
- Develop high-quality analytical outputs, including dashboards and data visualizations.
- Coordinate the strategic communication of results.
- Integrate gender-responsive and inclusive economic, environmental, and social analysis.
- Oversee the timely documentation of programme results.
- Ensure and coordinate the implementation of YUMEE, YDEEP, and other youth-related projects.
- Provide input for evaluations based on donor agreements.
- Analyze data for evaluation processes.
- Supervise project team and coordinate with project board and stakeholders.
- Support mainstreaming youth empowerment within UNDP country office.
- Provide data and strategic inputs for improving youth empowerment activities.
- Implement evaluation recommendations.
- Ensure implementation of gender equality accountability framework and Gender equality Results Based management.
- Assist in maintaining strategic partnerships with key development partners.
- Provide support in strengthening cooperation with key stakeholders.
- Support the communication of the Democratic Governance programme/projects for resource mobilization.
- Facilitate information sharing and dialogue within the donor community.
- Contribute to the implementation of Evaluation Knowledge Management and Learning Strategy.
- Establish and update documentation of research reports, studies and evaluations.
- Facilitate and participate in results-oriented monitoring and evaluation training efforts.
- Contribute to the network for youth mainstreaming learning and knowledge sharing.
- Ensure key programme and project results data and promotional material are available.
Required Experience
Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in programme/project management in the domains of Youth Entrepreneurship or Youth Upskilling & Reskilling, or Youth on Climate Action.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Public Policy, Economics, Finance, International Relations, or other related fields is required; or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with two (2) additional years of relevant professional experience.
