Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.
We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.
Following a major transition, our international programmes are now delivered through a merged operation with 15,000 staff, managed through seven regional hubs and reporting to a relatively small, central office. We’re changing to become more efficient, more aligned, a better partner, a stronger advocate, a magnet for world-class people and relevant for the 21st century.
Roles for the Regional Youth Advisor Job
- 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.
Contract Duration: 2 Years
Location: Nairobi (travel to Somalia/Somaliland, South Sudan, and Ethiopia expected)
Regional Youth Advisor Job 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.
- 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.
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