Avis de recrutement : UNICEF recrute un(e) Spécialiste du développement des jeunes et des adolescents à New Delhi, Inde.

The Youth & Adolescent Development Specialist supports the development and coordination of operations of the work on adolescent and youth engagement and leadership initiatives. S/he coordinates with public and private sector organizations, NGOs, UN Agencies, industry aggregators, solutions partners, young people and UNICEF field offices at national and state level. S/he supports YuWaah related planning, communication with key partners and knowledge management. S/he is responsible for managing resources and funds for Pillar 3, building pipeline for new partnerships and collaboration opportunities, and reporting the progress of projects within the country programs.

S/He provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of results on programmes/projects to improve learning outcomes and equitable and inclusive

access to employment opportunities, especially for young people who are marginalized, disadvantaged and excluded in society.

S/He contributes to achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results based management approaches and methodology (RBM), as well as UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance, and accountability framework.

1. Technical guidance and support
2. Partnerships and Networking
3. Innovation
4. Advocacy & communications and Knowledge management

Technical guidance and support

• Support co-creation and validation of solutions with existing stakeholders and potential solution providers.
• Identify new partners and stakeholders in employment ecosystem that align with Yuwaah’s strategy and support them with partnership opportunities
• In cooperation with key stakeholders (YuWaah Secretariat, UNICEF ICO teams, government, private, CSO partners and young people) and in accordance with YuWaah developing the Theory of Change, develop strategy and implementation plans.
• Prepare annual workplan and budget for thematic area “Youth civic engagement, innovation and meaningful participation” and track fund needs and utilization
• Provide technical guidance for identifying key partnerships opportunities for “Youth civic engagement, innovation and meaningful and equitable participation”
• Draft policy papers, briefs and other strategic materials for YuWaah advocacy purposes
• Support YuWaah India partners’ perspective-building and systems’ strengthening on the importance of and how to nurture young people’s “civic participation, social innovation and meaningful and equitable participation”
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy
• Operationalization of the taskforce, including support to the finalization of membership and distribution of roles and responsibilities
• Monitor key partnerships to access progress, identify bottlenecks, problem solve and co-create new ideas and initiatives
• Provide oversight to enablement of civic and social engagement and leadership opportunities through YuWaah digital aggregator platform, Skills platform and YuWaah Social Impact platform
• Plan and contribute to scaling up of pilots that were initiated in the first year with support from partners
• Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and to ensure integration, coherence and harmonization of programmes/projects with other UNICEF sectors and achievement of results as planned and allocated.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results.

• Support development of programmatic and strategic relationships with existing and potential partners including the state government, private sector, NGOs/CSOs, industry aggregators, young people, other partners to optimize their contribution to YuWaah and to reinforce cooperation to achieve sustainable and broad results on Yuwaah programmes.
• Support enhancing relationships with existing and potential contributors for catalytic funding and with non-traditional partners, including on innovative financing modalities and leverage financing
• Coordinate information exchange and synergies between flagship initiatives advancing young people’s civic leadership, social innovation and meaningful and equitable participation
• Actively monitor key partnerships through field visits, surveys and/or exchange of information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant team members for timely resolution.
• Prepare regular/mandated reports for management and YuWaah partners to keep them informed of partnership progress.
• Organize large scale consultations by convening various public and private partners together on a forum to inform policy recommendations and bring the voices of young people to the centre

• Apply/introduce innovative approaches to enhance opportunities of youth civic engagement, social innovation and leadership for young people, for the delivery of concrete and sustainable results
• Research and suggest on best international practices to be explored for possible adaption in India
• Plan and conduct joint research studies with government and private partners to understand future employment ecosystem in the country and support stakeholders with informed decision making
• Draft policy papers with support from partners and major players in the ecosystem and align with relevant ministries for advocacy
• In alignment with Yuwaah’s core principles, engage closely with young people and YPAT network to imbibe youth centrality in all the work across pillars
• In alignment with UNICEF and Yuwaah’s core principles, build strategy and engage closely with partners to include marginalized youths and enable opportunities for them

• Support in drafting of public advocacy materials, human interest stories, social media material as applicable.
• Support development of lessons learned, review of successful and unsuccessful experiences and share observations/findings so that best practices benefit YuWaah’s implementation and strategy.

A Master’s degree in one of the following fields is required:

Social sciences, international relations, public/business administration, government and public relations, public or social policy, sociology, social or community development, or another relevant technical field.