Yayasan Plan International Indonesia is presently implementing its country strategic 4 (CS 4) covering fiscal year 2017 to 2022, where the country objective has been defined as “to identify and facilitate the removal of obstacles that prevent children from enjoying their rights and participating fully in Indonesian society”. The organization’s purpose is to “strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls”. This goal will be achieved by providing technical support and implementing quality programs and projects through partnership. An effective and efficient communications strategy is a must for Plan Indonesia to share the outcomes of these projects to influence different actors, specially state authorities and to position Plan’s profile within and outside at different levels – starting from community, sub district, district to national, regional and international levels. Yayasan Plan International Indonesia invites highly competent, experienced and committed professionals to fill the following position :
Youth Participation Officer - Jakarta Based
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;
TRAVEL
The position is based in Jakarta, with travel to project areas in East, Central and West Java, government offices, network partners, forums, development partners and donor agencies.
All applications will be treated in confidence. Only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for interviews so ;lease click https://tinyurl.com/CPSepci4listnew submit your letter of application and detailed curriculum vitae in English by click Apply now, not later than August 24, 2020
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