Women’s Empowerment – Programme Specialist (Part-Time Voluntary) at International Youth Foundation

For 30 years, we’ve driven positive youth development around the world. Through our experience and partnerships, we continue to enrich the global understanding of how to connect young people with hope, jobs, and a brighter future. Anchored by our mission, we are constantly deepening our research and bridging new partnerships to innovate and provide scalable, sustainable solutions for the most challenging problems young people face.

Coordinate and provide technical support to the implementation and management of women’s empowerment portfolio:

• Provide substantive inputs to the design and formulation of programme/ project proposals and initiatives in the field of women’s empowerment;
• Support drafting of concept notes, background paper, briefing notes, programme documentation, donor profiles, etc;
• Support implementation of the programme activities across Member Countries;
• Maintain relationships with international partners to support implementation and expansion of the women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming programmes;
• Represent IYF at relevant interagency coordination meetings as required and provide technical assistance for women’s empowerment at HQ level;
• Lead designing and implementation of advocacy and social mobilization aspects of the Global Programme (GP) components in collaboration with partners, government counterparts and others as relevant; and
• Formulate and maintain partnerships for programme implementation, particularly with women organizations, business leaders, community leaders and other relevant partners to promote women’s empowerment.

Facilitate and provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts:

• Develop background documents, briefs and presentations related to women’s empowerment and gender equality;
• Liaise with advocacy partners and undertake outreach to civil society organizations, governments, and other groups to ensure that newsworthy information reaches the public and donors; and
• Coordinate and organize advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products.

Experience

• A minimum of three-years of experience and results preferred in programme management role, international development, youth empowerment role, development, communications, international relations, youth studies, sport, women empowerment, youth-led organizations or another relevant field.