Plan International recruits an Youth Participation Officer Mitra Kunci in Jakarta, JK, ID

BACKGROUND

The Indonesia Mitra Kunci Initiative is a five-year, $15 million, USAID-funded project that promotes more inclusive economic growth by improving access to workforce and entrepreneurial skills for poor and vulnerable youth. The Mitra Kunci team provides USAID/Indonesia project implementers (PIs) and workforce stakeholders with technical support, connections and platforms to help build a more robust and responsive workforce development ecosystem. In addition to management support, capacity building, and coordination, Mitra Kunci’s technical assistance includes identifying, piloting and scaling new workforce development approaches and innovations such as

SPECIFIC TASKS

Managing Youth Initiatives and Partnership

• Providing technical assistance and assisting the implementation of the development of the roadmap for sustainability to Mitra Kunci Youth Facilitators. Technical assistance includes but not limits to organizational skills, partnership skills and financial sustainability.
• Conduct mapping on youth organizations relevant to the needs of the Mitra Kunci Project
• Build contacts liase and collaborate with the identifiedyouth organizations
• Build and implement internal mechanism to have continuous engagement with the youth stakeholders and provide them with opportunities to conduct annual events, build collaborative workplan, or participate in an advisory panel.

Youth Organization Capacity Building

• Conduct thorough assessment on skills gap among Mitra Kunci Youth facilitators and  partner youth organizations, to achieve agreed objectives
• Ensure that skills gaps are addressed and youth capacity is enhanced by liaising with needed experts  to develop relevant capacity building activities.in
• Facilitate the capacity building activities for Mitra Kunci Youth Partners

Youth Mobilization and External Advocacy

• Engage with youth through online and offline platforms to increase youth agencies’ external advocacy capacity
• Identify the challenges and potential networks to support the strategy of advocacy in ensuring PYD perspective adopted by policy maker in local and national level.
• Provide technical assistance to youth in developing high quality policy recommendation documents for distribution to government or private sector stakeholders
• Serve as the focal point person to youth, representing the Mitra Kunci Project
• Create online and offline platforms to collaborate with youth to support their advocacy work to relevant stakeholders

Internal Advisory:

• Build and establish internal mechanism that serves to receive advice from youth on Mitra Kunci implementation
• Coordinate with youth stakeholders in providing input for all Mitra Kunci activities
• Consolidate best practices, challenges, and lessons learned in relation to youth engagement
• Collaborate with technical and M&E team to develop the process of program documentation with angle of youth perspective.

Additional Responsibilities Included:

• Contribute to quarterly and annual reports for Mitra Kunci and Plan International Indonesia
• Support continuous learning of Mitra Kunci staff on youth engagement
• Ensure effective relationship with pertinent project partners. 

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in education, economics, management, social development, social politics, law, psychology, or related fields;
• At least 3 years of experience in a technical management role on a donor-funded project. Experience with USAID preferred;
• Technical experience and knowledge of youth engagement in Indonesia. Training experience and skills preferred;
• Demonstrates understanding about Gender and Social Inclusion.
• Demonstrates understanding in workforce development issues.
• Has proven experiences and good networking with youth
• Experiences with Government and Private Sector Engagement will be advantage;
• Strong oral and written communication skills; good computer skills;
• Good team player;