Title: Women Engagement & Advocacy (WEA) Specialist job at Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
Women Engagement & Advocacy (WEA) Specialist
2025-05-08T06:47:46+00:00
Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
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FULL_TIME
Kampala
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management
2025-05-23T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
8
Job Summary
Responsible for championing youth agency and voice through facilitating consortium partners’ and technical advisors/experts’ productive engagement of young women in all project management stages. She/he will lead the co-creation with young people to develop, implement, and ensure compliance of youth engagement strategy so that the ideas and needs of young people take a center stage into the program. She/he will provide expertise and interact effectively with senior levels of partner organizations and ecosystem stakeholders to advance the development and delivery of the Program with a young people focus and lens. This role will have a dotted reporting line to the consortium lead partner on youth tenement.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Conduct partner youth engagement mapping (assessment of policy, systems, structure, and practices)
- Develop guidelines and tools and materials for young women participation and engagement (i.e., enrolment, committee representation, training of trainer, safe spaces, curriculum design, internships, apprenticeship, MEL, reporting, upscaling & sustainability strategy development, etc.) and train partner staffs in the effective use of youth engagement guidelines
- Support partners in ensuring intentional active engagement of young women in staff employment, enrolment, group formation, work/enterprise selection, curriculum design, review, and implementation, engaging young people as trainers of trainees and monitoring, evaluation ad learning.
- Conduct regional annual stakeholder experience sharing meetings to strengthen active youth engagement by partners
- Support partners in organizing youth events such as exhibitions, exchange learning & exposure visits; and, international youth days (Labor Day & international women’s day)
- Conduct regional exchange learning visits for SIYEP program participants and document best practices
- Support integration and resource allocation to youth-led enterprises in districts and local government budgets
- Together with M&E and Communication leads, document and publish programme lessons, best practices, successful models, innovation & emerging opportunities for upscaling
- Hold stakeholder engagements to motivate young people to enroll in TVET. This will include TVET career fares where TVETs engage with their communities (parents, local leaders, and young people).
- Support partners to conduct innovation competitions for young people to demonstrate their skills acquired in TVETs at institution, district/ regional and national levels.
Person specifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, Education or Psychology. Masters degree is an added advantage.
- Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management is added advantage
- Minimum of 5 years of consortia work experience on youth engagement, empowerment, or youth development programs in a consortium setting.
- Demonstrated experience in working with government MDAs, TVETs, private sector, local artisans and other humanitarian and development organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in capacity development of local implementing partners.
- Experience in designing and implementing youth engagement strategies and activities.
- Experience reviewing, analyzing and or developing a diverse range of program operational tools (Curricula, Policies, guidelines with experience in leading best practice across complex and high value grants).
- Strong facilitation and communication skills (in English), including the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of youth.
- Familiarity with participatory and youth-centered methodologies.
- Knowledge of gender-sensitive approaches and inclusive programming.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners.
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
- Experience working in refugee-host community settings.
- Exceptional skills in report writing and tracking results
- Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork and networking skills
- Familiarity with work in refugee-host community settings is an added advantage.
- Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required.
Roles & Responsibilities Conduct partner youth engagement mapping (assessment of policy, systems, structure, and practices) Develop guidelines and tools and materials for young women participation and engagement (i.e., enrolment, committee representation, training of trainer, safe spaces, curriculum design, internships, apprenticeship, MEL, reporting, upscaling & sustainability strategy development, etc.) and train partner staffs in the effective use of youth engagement guidelines Support partners in ensuring intentional active engagement of young women in staff employment, enrolment, group formation, work/enterprise selection, curriculum design, review, and implementation, engaging young people as trainers of trainees and monitoring, evaluation ad learning. Conduct regional annual stakeholder experience sharing meetings to strengthen active youth engagement by partners Support partners in organizing youth events such as exhibitions, exchange learning & exposure visits; and, international youth days (Labor Day & international women’s day) Conduct regional exchange learning visits for SIYEP program participants and document best practices Support integration and resource allocation to youth-led enterprises in districts and local government budgets Together with M&E and Communication leads, document and publish programme lessons, best practices, successful models, innovation & emerging opportunities for upscaling Hold stakeholder engagements to motivate young people to enroll in TVET. This will include TVET career fares where TVETs engage with their communities (parents, local leaders, and young people). Support partners to conduct innovation competitions for young people to demonstrate their skills acquired in TVETs at institution, district/ regional and national levels.
Person specifications: A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, Education or Psychology. Masters degree is an added advantage. Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management is added advantage Minimum of 5 years of consortia work experience on youth engagement, empowerment, or youth development programs in a consortium setting. Demonstrated experience in working with government MDAs, TVETs, private sector, local artisans and other humanitarian and development organizations. Demonstrated experience in capacity development of local implementing partners. Experience in designing and implementing youth engagement strategies and activities. Experience reviewing, analyzing and or developing a diverse range of program operational tools (Curricula, Policies, guidelines with experience in leading best practice across complex and high value grants). Strong facilitation and communication skills (in English), including the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of youth. Familiarity with participatory and youth-centered methodologies. Knowledge of gender-sensitive approaches and inclusive programming. Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners. Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities. Experience working in refugee-host community settings. Exceptional skills in report writing and tracking results Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork and networking skills Familiarity with work in refugee-host community settings is an added advantage. Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required.
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Vacancy title:
Women Engagement & Advocacy (WEA) Specialist
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD)
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, May 23 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 8 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary
Responsible for championing youth agency and voice through facilitating consortium partners’ and technical advisors/experts’ productive engagement of young women in all project management stages. She/he will lead the co-creation with young people to develop, implement, and ensure compliance of youth engagement strategy so that the ideas and needs of young people take a center stage into the program. She/he will provide expertise and interact effectively with senior levels of partner organizations and ecosystem stakeholders to advance the development and delivery of the Program with a young people focus and lens. This role will have a dotted reporting line to the consortium lead partner on youth tenement.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Conduct partner youth engagement mapping (assessment of policy, systems, structure, and practices)
- Develop guidelines and tools and materials for young women participation and engagement (i.e., enrolment, committee representation, training of trainer, safe spaces, curriculum design, internships, apprenticeship, MEL, reporting, upscaling & sustainability strategy development, etc.) and train partner staffs in the effective use of youth engagement guidelines
- Support partners in ensuring intentional active engagement of young women in staff employment, enrolment, group formation, work/enterprise selection, curriculum design, review, and implementation, engaging young people as trainers of trainees and monitoring, evaluation ad learning.
- Conduct regional annual stakeholder experience sharing meetings to strengthen active youth engagement by partners
- Support partners in organizing youth events such as exhibitions, exchange learning & exposure visits; and, international youth days (Labor Day & international women’s day)
- Conduct regional exchange learning visits for SIYEP program participants and document best practices
- Support integration and resource allocation to youth-led enterprises in districts and local government budgets
- Together with M&E and Communication leads, document and publish programme lessons, best practices, successful models, innovation & emerging opportunities for upscaling
- Hold stakeholder engagements to motivate young people to enroll in TVET. This will include TVET career fares where TVETs engage with their communities (parents, local leaders, and young people).
- Support partners to conduct innovation competitions for young people to demonstrate their skills acquired in TVETs at institution, district/ regional and national levels.
Person specifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, Education or Psychology. Masters degree is an added advantage.
- Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management is added advantage
- Minimum of 5 years of consortia work experience on youth engagement, empowerment, or youth development programs in a consortium setting.
- Demonstrated experience in working with government MDAs, TVETs, private sector, local artisans and other humanitarian and development organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in capacity development of local implementing partners.
- Experience in designing and implementing youth engagement strategies and activities.
- Experience reviewing, analyzing and or developing a diverse range of program operational tools (Curricula, Policies, guidelines with experience in leading best practice across complex and high value grants).
- Strong facilitation and communication skills (in English), including the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of youth.
- Familiarity with participatory and youth-centered methodologies.
- Knowledge of gender-sensitive approaches and inclusive programming.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners.
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
- Experience working in refugee-host community settings.
- Exceptional skills in report writing and tracking results
- Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork and networking skills
- Familiarity with work in refugee-host community settings is an added advantage.
- Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure:
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