No. of Positions: 1
Sector: Program Administration
Employment Category: Fixed term
Employment Type: Full time
Contract Duration: 1 year, renewable annually
Open to Expatriates: No
Reports to: The Executive Director
Start Date: Contingent on award
About us:
YOTA works with partners towards a just and sustainable world where every young person has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our mission is to empower Africa’s youth with social and economic opportunities so that they can escape poverty and transform their lives. Through our Agenda for Youth Transformation, we adopt a people-centered approach to youth transformation that involves increasing youth capabilities to better position them for work and participation in society, expanding opportunities to help youth apply and strengthen those capabilities, and enabling youth to leverage the support of institutions. YOTA understands that youth transformation occurs when youth are empowered – through economic self-sufficiency, social change, voice, agency, and service – to drive positive change in their own lives and in the lives of others. Although based in Ghana, the organization ’s footprints are spreading across Africa, with recent and active experience in western, eastern, and southern Africa.
Purpose of the role:
YOTA seeks an experienced and motivated Youth Engagement Lead for the anticipated USAID-funded Ghana Youth Activity. The program will support rural and urban youth in northern Ghana with a range of sustainable opportunities, tools, and support systems that enable youth to improve their livelihoods, increase their abilities to contribute as both economically and socially productive individuals, promote peace, and become engaged community members.
As Youth Engagement Lead, you will be responsible for coordinating YOTA’s youth engagement efforts across the program. You will be the primary point of contact for our key partners. You will be responsible for networking, identifying, and establishing partnerships with youth organizations and a broad range of stakeholders in the program area. Your role will coordinate peer learning activities with young people through virtual and in-person engagement, digital activities, in collaboration with diverse youth in northern Ghana.
We are looking for someone who is hands-on, motivated by the social impact a youth-led engagement program can achieve and will be driven by a passion to highlight the socioeconomic status of youth in northern Ghana through a youth-led, cross-sectoral approach.
If you believe that young people have a critical role to play both as targets and agents in local and global development, and if you enjoy working in a fast-paced and creative organization, then we would love to hear from you.
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Qualifications:
How to apply:
Please submit a one-page motivation letter and an updated CV to hr@yotaweb.org. Please use Youth Engagement Lead as the subject line of your email. Be sure to highlight in the motivation letter how specifically you meet the qualifications, skills, and experience requirements for this role. Due to capacity constraints, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
YOTA is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
YOTA has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the organization, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and processes, and discrimination. YOTA also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
Tagged as: Ghana, Youth Opportunity & Transformation in Africa
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