United Nations Children's Fund
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The UNICEF country programme 2021-2025 implicitly recognizes youth engagement as cross-cutting strategies which prioritize adolescent and youth skills development as underlying requirements for their meaningful participation and empowerment. The overarching and crosscutting goal of UNICEF Kazakhstan is to promote youth engagement in policy advocacy, provide young people with access to online social services, formal and non-formal skills building opportunities and participation platforms, increase national capacities to amplify their voices and be connected, actively engaged, and empowered, and to productively participate in their communities and society.
The main objective of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to UNICEF Country Office in Kazakhstan in launching and managing the U-Report Kazakhstan initiative with a concrete plan to reach into communities, gather relevant information, and use it to empower them to address adolescent and youth relevant health, education, environmental and social issues as well as use this information to exert influence on local, regional and national stakeholders as part of a larger governance and accountability strategy. He/she is also expected to ensure that information collected feeds into Government of Kazakhstan and UNICEF’s the programmatic goals with a specific focus on Global Health Security agenda, online safety, skills, girls empowerment, and climate change.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
The main objective of the consultancy is to provide technical assistance to UNICEF Country Office in Kazakhstan in launching and managing the U-Report Kazakhstan initiative with a concrete plan to reach into communities, gather relevant information, and use it to empower them to address adolescent and youth relevant health, education, environmental and social issues as well as use this information to exert influence on local, regional and national stakeholders as part of a larger governance and accountability strategy. He/she is also expected to ensure that information collected feeds into Government of Kazakhstan and UNICEF’s the programmatic goals with a specific focus on Global Health Security agenda, online safety, skills, girls empowerment, and climate change.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
- Education: Project management, social policy, sociology, youth policy, communications, IT or a similar field.
Experience:
- At least 4 years of progressive experience in project management, partnership development, social policy, youth engagement and youth outreach
- Proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas as well as to transfer knowledge and skills
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Russian, knowledge of Kazakh language will be a strong asset
- Knowledge and experience of administering websites and social media accounts will be an asset
- Highly developed communication and partnership skills.
- Ability to work independently and respond to feedback in a timely and professional manner.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to contribute to a team.
- Experience of working with civil society partners
- Experience with a high-level communications campaign across multiple mediums, with national brand recognition
- Experience engaging with political structures, civil society pressure groups, and other channels of national influence
- Experience with monitoring and evaluation of large, complex projects with multi partner engagement.
- Prior working experience with UN agency is an asset.
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