Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 06, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Description
The Youth Program Officer will support AWF’s newly established Youth Leadership Program. Reporting to the Program Manager, and functionally (technically) to the Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program. The position will also work closely with the Policy, Partnerships and Global Leadership team. The Youth Program Officer will be responsible for supporting the country level implementation of the youth engagement strategy, program development, policy influencing, partnerships, documentation, and other administrative functions of the program.
Additionally, the Youth Program Officer will be responsible for ensuring effective coordination with other actors/stakeholders, monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance of AWF’s Youth portfolio in Uganda. S/he will be responsible for contributing to program design and development; technical support to interventions; measurement, research and documentation; representation and partnership development, proposal and resource development; and training, mentoring and organizational learning for implementing youth program partners. This position will be based in Uganda.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
Program Development & Management
• In consultation with the Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Program, Country Director , Project Manager and program staff, develop a youth engagement plan that is aligned to the Uganda national youth strategy, AWF Uganda country strategy and the AWF global youth strategy
• Coordinate all youth engagement planning and activities at AWF country office to ensure that they are consistent with the AWF youth engagement frameworks and quality standards.
• Support in the identification and profiling of potential youth groups / networks to partner with to deliver the youth engagement plans of the country office
• Support the identification and recognition of youth conservation champions.
• Support selection and awarding of youth fellowships and internship opportunities.
• Support mapping, assessment, coordination, establishment and capacity development of youth led conservation focused civil society organizations to ensure that vibrant youth networks are established and engaged ensuring inclusion of rural marginalized youths.
• Facilitate synergies of the youth program with policy teams, and other programs/department within the country.
• Support the implementation and review of the Uganda country strategy
• Ensure that the Youth Program is implemented in ways responsive to communities, partners and other key stakeholders in line with AWF values and strategic plan and in compliance with AWF procedures; and that they promote gender equality, equal access by rural youth, and the inclusion of marginalized or disadvantaged youth thus fitting into the national Youth Strategy.
• Ensure that all developed youth programs/activities contribute or lead to the achievement of the Country strategy

Budget Management and Resource Mobilization
• Contribute to appropriate country context program design and fundraising proposals.
• With guidance from Country Director and Country Finance officer, ensure that youth program budget for the country is managed according to set frameworks, workplans and AWF accounting procedures.

Partnership and Network Building
• Build partnerships that can support AWF’s Youth Programs.
• Ensure capacities of youth program stakeholders at country and landscapes are built and engaged in advancing conservation and development.
• Develop sustainable youth networks/partnership relevant to the country strategy/program
• Facilitate external synergies/partnerships of the youth program.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders including Government line ministries to ensure the youth programs are implemented accordingly to set Government frameworks and to demonstrate AWF national visibility through youth programs.

Measuring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
• In alignment with AWF’s ME framework, lead, research and file country specific youth engagement activities that have been planned and document the relevance of AWF participation in the events.
• Work with the AWF M&E global team to ensure that MEAL tools are developed, rolled out and analyzed according to institutional metrics; indicators are tracked; and findings inform the Youth Programming.
• Coordinate with communications and the Knowledge management teams so that most significant change stories are documented, filed and disseminated.

Requirements
• Degree in any field related to community development, social sciences and or any conservation related field.
• At least three-years working experience in conservation or youth program related field.
• Experience of, and commitment to, working through systems of community participation and accountability.
• Strong administrative and organizational skills.
• A strong understanding of the Uganda operational context.
• Computer skills including word, excel, PowerPoint, internet & social media.
• Proficiency in technical and report writing.
• Excellent digital storytelling, problem solving and time management skills.
• Ability to collate and analyse a wide range of information to draw out key strategic messages and findings
• Aptitude in presentation and public speaking.
• Ability to plan and organize events.
• Ability to cultivate and build strong constructive working relationships within AWF and with other key constituents externally.
• Ability and willingness to travel to remote locations as may be required

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
Apply at: https://www.awf.org/about/careers#jobform-698181 

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