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Job Summary

Responsible for championing youth agency and voice through facilitating consortium partners’ and technical advisors/experts’ productive engagement of young women in all project management stages. She/he will lead the co-creation with young people to develop, implement, and ensure compliance of youth engagement strategy so that the ideas and needs of young people take a center stage into the program. She/he will provide expertise and interact effectively with senior levels of partner organizations and ecosystem stakeholders to advance the development and delivery of the Program with a young people focus and lens. This role will have a dotted reporting line to the consortium lead partner on youth tenement.

Roles    & Responsibilities

• Conduct partner youth engagement mapping (assessment of policy, systems, structure, and practices)
• Develop guidelines and tools and materials for young women participation and engagement (i.e., enrolment, committee representation, training of trainer, safe spaces, curriculum design, internships, apprenticeship, MEL, reporting, upscaling & sustainability strategy development, etc.) and train partner staffs in the effective use of youth engagement guidelines
• Support partners in ensuring intentional active engagement of young women in staff employment, enrolment, group formation, work/enterprise selection, curriculum design, review, and implementation, engaging young people as trainers of trainees and monitoring, evaluation ad learning.
• Conduct regional annual stakeholder experience sharing meetings to strengthen active youth engagement by partners
• Support partners in organizing youth events such as exhibitions, exchange learning & exposure visits; and, international youth days (Labor Day & international women’s day)
• Conduct regional exchange learning visits for SIYEP program participants and document best practices
• Support integration and resource allocation to youth-led enterprises in districts and local government budgets
• Together with M&E and Communication leads, document and publish programme lessons, best practices, successful models, innovation & emerging opportunities for upscaling
• Hold stakeholder engagements to motivate young people to enroll in TVET. This will include TVET career fares where TVETs engage with their communities (parents, local leaders, and young people).
• Support partners to conduct innovation competitions for young people to demonstrate their skills acquired in TVETs at institution, district/ regional and national levels.

Person specifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, Education or Psychology. Masters degree is an added advantage.
• Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management is added advantage
• Minimum of 5 years of consortia work experience on youth engagement, empowerment, or youth development programs in a consortium setting.
• Demonstrated experience in working with government MDAs, TVETs, private sector, local artisans and other humanitarian and development organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity development of local implementing partners.
• Experience in designing and implementing youth engagement strategies and activities.
• Experience reviewing, analyzing and or developing a diverse range of program operational tools (Curricula, Policies, guidelines with experience in leading best practice across complex and high value grants).
• Strong facilitation and communication skills (in English), including the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of youth.
• Familiarity with participatory and youth-centered methodologies.
• Knowledge of gender-sensitive approaches and inclusive programming.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Experience working in refugee-host community settings.
• Exceptional skills in report writing and tracking results
• Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork and networking skills
• Familiarity with work in refugee-host community settings is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required.