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For every child, a champion :
The Adolescent Development Officer (ADO) will provide technical support to the Burundi Country Office to ensure that more adolescents girls and boys will be prepared for the transition to work, have access to opportunities for skills development and trainings and ultimately have access to work and livelihoods opportunities. The Officer provides professional technical, and operational assistance to support adolescent’s participation and civic engagement within the Country Programme and in the Generation Unlimited (GenU) partnership. The Officer is responsible for preparing, executing, managing and implementing technical and operational tasks to support adolescent civic engagement and skills development.
How can you make a difference?
- In collaboration with all stakeholders develop a multisectoral action plan for adolescent and youth employment and entrepreneurship ;
- Run adolescent and youth consultations on U-report to identify their key priorities and aspirations for education/ employability and entrepreunership ;
- Collaborate with the Ministry of Youth and other key partners to create and operationalize a referral pathway to increase opportunities for work opportunities for adolescents ;
- Support the outreach to all partners who are already part of the Gen U movement at the global level ;
- Map potential other public sector partners based on the context in Burundi and the partners interest and engagement in issues affecting young people ;
- Map potential private sector partners present in Burundi and identify priority actors to engage with including business associations and platforms.
Qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Social sciences, communication, marketing, management, anthropology, community psychology, social marketing ;
- A minimum of 5 years of progressively experience in either private sector engagement, project management, partnerships, youth-centred programmes or a related field ;
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset ;
- Fluency in English and french is required or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks :
Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.