Regional Youth Advisor at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

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)

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.