Advisor, Stakeholder Engagement/Positive Youth Development (P3)

Summary

The Stakeholder Engagement/Positive Youth Development (PYD) Advisor manages specific youth activities for Gender and Youth Activity (GAYA), a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Associate Award (AA) that works to improve the quality and impact of food security activities by addressing the barriers and challenges implementing partners face when integrating youth and gender within their activities. GAYA provides strategic capacity strengthening and learning in gender and youth activities for implementing partners of programs.

As Stakeholder Engagement/PYD Advisor you will provide technical input into all GAYA youth integration-related workstreams including analyses, mainstreaming, small grants awards, and the GAYA Fellowship in coordination with the Program Director and BHA Gender, Age and Social Inclusion team.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Technical Leadership for Quality Programming (55%)

• Providing youth technical leadership and support, as an integrated team member to AA, IDEAL, BHA, and implementing partners operating in humanitarian response, early recovery, risk reduction and resilience contexts focused on improving food security and resilience outcomes for the most vulnerable population segments
• Lead youth technical input into all GAYA workstreams including, annual Gender and Youth Consultations for Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs) during the Refine & Implement (R&I) process and culmination workshops, the GAYA Fellowship, the Annual IP Survey and Stakeholder Consultations
• Strengthen the capacity of implementing partners to integrate age and intersectional approaches, with a special focus on young people, into program scopes of work and protocol for youth focused analyses, adapted for rapid onset crisis and protracted crises contexts.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience to ensure effective integration of a PYD approach in programming and lead the development of technical approaches and evidence models for SCUS’s global priorities related to youth engagement in agricultural value chains and addressing climate change in Food Systems.
• Support plans for addressing other priority and demand-driven capacity strengthening needs such as data collection, management and analysis, methods, and sampling, using analysis results for improved program design and implementation, etc.
• Provides youth technical support to Small Grants program improvement awards and GAYA Fellowship activities to leverage innovation and learning.
• Lead GAYA youth and PYD projects, in coordination with the Program Lead and other workstreams and serve as technical lead for those workstream(s), serving as primary focal point for consultancies, overseeing work plans, and ensuring timely delivery of key milestones and targets for those workstream(s).
• Design and lead presentations and facilitate small groups on a variety of topics, i.e. Youth Consultation during the RFSA Refine and Implement (R&I) process, GAYA virtual events and Fellowship Workstream.

Knowledge Management & Learning (15%)

• Contribute to an evidence base for effective youth integration for BHA implementation modalities.
• Document and present the design of learning studies.
• Maintain updated capacity statements, program descriptions, and other documentation useful in articulating youth specific approaches.
• Confirm technical tools and materials are filed according to GAYA and SCUS knowledge management protocols, ensuring their accessibility for team members.
• Create high-quality knowledge products from diverse data sources including programmatic materials and tools.
• Support the implementation of a thorough dissemination plan for how information, findings, and learning from small grants and workstreams are shared with the broader food and nutrition security community.
• Participate in regular After-Action Review and reflection sessions and adapt interventions and work plans accordingly.
• Lead and/or support additional innovations and learning workstreams as they arise and support GAYA members in their workstreams.
• Develop and disseminate, in consultation with implementing partners, strong guidance to support their capacity to utilize gender and youth analyses, findings, and learnings to inform revised Theories of Change, approaches, and activities.

Resource Development (20%)

• Promote PYD in both emergency and development contexts by adapting PYD resources and trainings for implementing partners and designing frameworks and methodologies for effective youth analysis through an inclusion lens.
• Deliver capacity strengthening curriculum or other processes for program teams.
• Provide technical expertise for PYD in design workshops, assessments, team writing assignments, and other processes.

Advocacy & External Representation (10%)

• Knowing that communities often identify the best strategies for success, provide support and advice.
• Represent GAYA on relevant technical and coordination working groups.
• Participate in the development of youth livelihoods related policy and advocacy positions and champion dissemination.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with government and peer agencies.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated active, flexible, and creative leadership in youth and social inclusion in humanitarian response and international development activities.
• Ability to project manage workstreams; establish work plans, set priorities, assign roles and responsibilities, and ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of how to work effectively in varying cultural, political and religious environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and in coordination with the Program and Technical Leads in matrixed teams and non-hierarchical environment, and prioritize competing requirements.
• Demonstrated strong theoretical and applied knowledge using integrated approaches and applying systems thinking.
• Familiarity with donor, e.g. USAID’s BHA, requirements including design and program development expertise, including Theory of Change.
• Willingness and ability to serve as a resource for team members, particularly less experienced colleagues.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 30%.

• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant master's degree

• Experience with other sectoral youth development strategies; particularly with reference to nutrition.
• Experience working with USAID/BHA and other SCUS’s donors.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and learning dissemination skills and experience.
• French, Spanish, and/or Arabic language ability.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

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