Youth Engagement Officer
Plan International
- Jakarta
- Kontrak
- kerja tetap
- This position reports to the project manager and coordinates closely with the campaign lead and YEO to influence the team.
- Plan and lead the implementation of youth-focused collective action in climate change
- Expand the YPII network among champions of youth coalitions, youth groups, and organizations to spread the key campaign messages and create stronger influence on targeted policymakers, and audiences at national and regional levels
- Coordinates with APAC Regional and Global Forums/Networks on youth engagement initiatives to become an effective community of information sharing and play a role as a focal point for any youth and campaign-related forum or events
- Manages YPII’s youth engagement network (approximately 5 people) and manages consultants when relevant.
- Support youth learnings in climate change and facilitating the actions (including administrative works)
- Support the coordination with stakeholders and partners (governments, CSOs, CC and youth networks) and COs/APAC for the provision of strategic support services
- Support the project scaling-up strategies as well as sustainability
- Support the MER team to update the monitoring mechanisms and tools for project monitoring regularly
- Working collaboratively with technical advisor/specialist at the CO level for cross-cutting themes such as gender, inclusion, participation, protection
- Socialize youth engagement strategy, including powering the movement and girls get equal initiatives to youth focal points across YPII and youth groups/partners
- Play a key role as a focal point for Powering the Movement and Girls Get Equal campaign across YPII
- Works with Adolescent Network, Youth Coalition for Girls, and other youth groups to strengthen the movement for child rights and equality for girls (powering the movement)
- Implement Girls Get Equal campaign events and other related campaign events
- Ensure the proper process is in place to select children/ young people and chaperones to be delegations in strategic advocacy events organized by CO, Asia Hub, and Global Hub
- Support the project manager and Influencing Director to represent YPII at the national and international forum related to youth and campaign agenda
- Expand YPII’s network to youth organizations/forums that are strategic to be campaign and advocacy partners on child and youth rights and equality for girls.
- Develop and maintain a youth-based volunteer platform that is ready to volunteer across YPII works
- Collect data and write report to the project manager for youth engagement and campaign activities
- Develop TOR, contracts, and other administrative tasks related to campaign and advocacy
- Bachelor Degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: youth studies, international development, gender, inclusion, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law or other social science field
- Minimum of 1-2 years of work experience working on development programmes
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and writing) in English and Bahasa Indonesia
- Knowledge of the links between gender equality, children’s rights and NGO development programming practice.
- Demonstrated understanding on child and youth-led initiatives and child and youth sensitive monitoring and evaluation
- Good network with youth groups champion in Indonesia
- Excellent understanding of the practicalities of designing, implementing, and evaluating high quality programmes that promote meaningful child and youth participation
- Excellent understanding of relevant policy-making processes and institutions on child and youth participation
- Ability to design proposals, guidelines and standards, monitor and evaluate child and youth participation programming, based on sound analysis
- Strong team work
- Ability to build internal and external networks across countries
- Facilitation and training skills for children and young people
- Dealing with conflict with tact and collected manner