Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 09 Oct 2017
About VSO
VSO is the world's leading development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. We are unique in the way we bring people together to share their skills and experience, generate insights and ideas and, most of all, take action against poverty and exclusion. It's a highly effective approach that works, and today is helping millions of people in some of the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.
Role overview
To develop and manage a youth engagement strategy for VSO across the portfolio of youth programmes, support ongoing engagement and participation of young people in VSO programmes and ensure that VSO continues to be leader in youth volunteering for the development sector.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Oversee the development and delivery of a youth engagement strategy targeting ICS volunteers and other young people, building up a confident and skilled global community of engaged young citizens, active in their communities, regions and on the global stage
Youth Engagement Panels/Platforms: Support the development of youth engagement plans in select countries. Build capacity of youth engagement through youth platforms and provide targeted technical support, as necessary. Ensure linkages with ICS global community and other existing youth platforms
Youth engagement guidance and practice: Produce guidance and support delivery of training to VSO offices and staff on strategies for meaningful youth engagement for both youth volunteering programmes (e.g. ICS) and youth focussed programmes (e.g. SRHR)
Support the development of ICS volunteer journey from application through to action@home and ongoing active engagement - ensuring meaningful lifelong relationships and skills are developed
Work collaboratively with colleagues across VSO to increase knowledge, skills, resources and networks related to youth engagement, including key teams such as Programme Development, Knowledge for Impact and ICS Contract Management Unit
Monitoring and Evaluation: Develop and manage a tracking mechanism for impact of youth engagement
Partnerships: Support the development of strategic and programme partnerships with youth organisations and networks at national and global level to support our programme and engagement work through provision of volunteers, joint programming, shared research, learning and funding
Knowledge management Promote the generation and or use of quality internal and external evidence, practice and learning within VSO including through the establishment of communities of practice for youth (including ICS) that shares knowledge, learning and innovation and build capacity in youth programming.
VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
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