Youth Engagement & Consultation (YEC) Officer - Lake Chad Programme at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Youth Engagement & Consultation (YEC) Officer - Lake Chad Programme

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Role Purpose

• Under the general guidance of the Lake Chad Youth Engagement & Consultation Advisor, the Youth Engagement and Consultation Officer will ensure that the study findings and strategy on YEC are rolled out in the Lake Chad Programme of the Plan Country Office and link in to the Plan International’s YEC programme activities in the rest of the Lake Chad region.

Dimension of Role
The role is expected to:

• Support the roll-out of the study findings from the YEC consultancy and related strategy document through support to technical project designs and youth engagement & consultation processes in the Plan International Country Office.
• Ensure that the YEC approach is contributing to the gender-transformative programme approach being used by the Plan International Country Office’s Lake Chad Programme with a particular focus on the participation and perspectives of female youth and adolescent girls.
• Coordinate with the YEC work being done at country level in Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, as well as with the Lake Chad Programme’s YEC Advisor, including the participation in exchange and learning across the countries on the YEC approach.

Key Roles/Responsibilities
Roll out of the YEC Strategy:

• Developing an implementation plan of the YEC strategy document for the Plan International Country Office.
• Implementing programme activities within the scope of the YEC strategy (and within the context of SPO4 in the Regional Programme Strategy) directly with youth and other relevant stakeholders, as well as liaising with national and local actors as relevant for the preparation and implementation of such activities.
• Assist the YEC Advisor in conducting internal orientations/training for the Plan programme country office staff on the YEC strategy and the roll out phase
• Technical support to intervention designs relevant for YEC
• Support the development, at field level, of an appropriate monitoring, and evaluation systems for YEC interventions, and ensure that it is functional.

Information and Co-ordination:

• Provide intervention updates and reports on a frequent basis and whenever required and requested to the Lake Chad Programme’ YEC Advisor, as well as respective line manager, on the progress of the YEC strategy implementation as well as planned and ongoing YEC actions in the Country Office.
• Participate in regular meetings of the YEC team (YEC Advisor, as well as YEC Officers in the other two Plan International Country Offices) to strengthen YEC strategy roll out at country levels.
• Collect, analyse, and share YEC-related data at country level.
• Ensure that lessons learnt at country level on YEC are systematically documented/captured and can be used for further implementation improvement as well as development of new interventions around YEC.

Capacity Building:

• Assist the YEC advisor in providing orientation/trainings to country office programme staff on the YEC strategy and meaningful youth engagement, participation, and consultation.

Resource Mobilization for follow up and/or extension phase:

• Support the YEC advisor, CO resource mobilization teams and Plan International NOs on securing funds for continuous YEC programme scale up through providing lessons learnt and project related contextual information as well as technical support for intervention design and youth engagement and consultation processes.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge

• University Degree or appropriate work experience in a field relevant to the position
• At least 3 years of experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated humanitarian and/or development programmes
• Knowledge of international humanitarian standards and codes of conduct
• Significant experience in youth participation and youth engagement as well as on participative approaches
• Experience in working with children and girls’ rights
• Advocacy, influencing and negotiating skills, experienced in gaining commitment from a wide range of people, bringing about change and providing support from a distance
• Work style: well organized even within a fluid working environment and has a capacity for initiative and decision making with competent analytical and problem solving skills.
• External representation and communication skills Requires general administration, information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in IT/computer skills (including sound MS excel and word proficiency)
• Fluency in English
• Flexibility to travel within the CO’s Lake Chad Programme area, within security limitations set by Plan International.

Application Closing Date
4th September, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online