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TITLE: Regional Youth Advisor (Horn of Africa)TEAM/PROGRAMME:
Regional and Multi-Country Programme Unit / LOCATION: Nairobi (travel to Somalia/Somaliland, South Sudan, and Ethiopia expected)
GRADE: TBC / CONTRACT LENGTH: 2 Years
TBC
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff. The post holder will be requested to undergo a child safeguarding policy.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Regional Youth Advisor (Horn of Africa) is to advise Save the Children’ s Danida regional programme for the Horn of Africa so as to guide the programme to a successful outcome.
This advice and guidance comprise three main areas:
- identifying youth networks as partners for capacity strengthening with the aim of improving their capabilities in advocacy, youth participation, and protection rights of the youth
- improving youth empowerment (civic, social and economic) through Save the Children’s Danida regional programme as well as the Danida-funded country programmes in region (mainly in Somalia/Somaliland and South Sudan; and secondary in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda;
- contributing to Save the Children and CSO partners’ (including youth network) engagement in the children/youth on the move agenda and the ending child marriage agenda.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Led by the Regional Youth Advisor, the Save the Children/Danida Horn of Africa regional programme will provide support to civil society partners, including child and youth-led organisations. This will be based on technical assistance and related strategic activity funding, which will aim to enable civil society partners to address Horn of Africa (including South Sudan and refugee hosting areas) trends and dynamics, affecting the most vulnerable children and youth. The focus will be psychosocial resilience strengthening; protection of girls (and boys) from child marriage and harmful practices; access to quality education; decent employment; social and political empowerment; civic engagement, and ensuring protection of children and youth on the move. Such a regional lens will enable Save the Children to analyse contexts and stakeholders, jointly with our partners, and in turn harness and apply learning across the different contexts. The youth programming support will also take a migration lens and contribute to the HoA post-resilience agenda on the future of small pastoralists.
Reports to:
Budget Responsibilities:
Role Dimensions:
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
· Regional youth networks capacities assessed and developed
· Youth CSO networks in the Horn of Africa established and/or strengthened to promote and advocate for youth rights
· Youth priorities for promoting participation and protection rights agreed on
· Gender-sensitive evidence on youth protection and participation rights generated to inform advocacy and programming
· Trends analysis of youth migration in the Horn of Africa supported
· Training of youth in advocacy skills in order for them to present their cases to the AU and IGAD completed
· Technical assistance provided to youth networks, CSOs, and Save the Children Country Office staff on technical vocational training and skills development, employment promotion, social and political empowerment of youth, life skills, youth leadership and youth led advocacy
· Representation of SCI at key regional and international youth foras
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)
Accountability:
· holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
· holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
· sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
· widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
· future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
· builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
· values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
· approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
· develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
· willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
· honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master degree in social or political science or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years of experience of working specifically on the matters of young people’s empowerment, advocacy and organization.
- Experience of working through and together with others, and with providing technical assistance in a respectful manner.
- Demonstrated experience of writing funding proposals
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English. French added advantage.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
· Solid knowledge of youth network capacity strengthening and youth empowerment programming
· Solid knowledge and experience with international and regional youth human rights instruments, laws and policies in East and Southern Africa.
· Solid experience of youth programming in the Horn of Africa (including South Sudan and Somalia refugee hosting countries)
· Experience in labour market issues, employment and technical vocational training, poverty alleviation including challenges of discrimination and exclusion
· Experience in carrying out analysis related project baselines; market surveys; youth situation analysis; and tracer studies of youth
Additional job responsibilities
Equal Opportunities
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Health and Safety
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
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