Women Engagement & Advocacy (WEA) Specialist
Full time @AGENCY FOR ACCELERATED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT posted 3 days ago in non-government organisation Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 26869
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Career Level Specialist
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Experience 3 Years
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Gender Both
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Industry Administration
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
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Job Type Full time
Job Description
AFARD is seeking competent and qualified persons to fill the various positions shown below. Signed Application and a 2-pager
motivation letter plus relevant academic & experience credentials, CV with names and daytime contacts of three referees,
and your daytime phone contact numbers in 1-file PDF format should be addressed to “The Human Resources Office” and emailed to procurement@afard.net latest on May 23, 2025 at 5:00PM. In the subject area of your email, indicate the position
you are applying for.
Polite Notice.
• Qualified females and refugees are highly encouraged to apply.
• Only complete applications will be accepted and considered for review.
• Only those who are ready to start immediately will be shortlisted.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Successful applicants will be required to start immediately after appropriate screening checks including criminal records,
child and sexual abuse, exploitation and/or harassment. By applying, job applicants consent to these screening checks
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 engagementstrategy so that the
ideas andneedsof youngpeopletake a center stage intotheprogram. She/hewillprovideexpertiseand interact effectively
with senior levels of partner organizations and ecosystem stakeholdersto advance the development and delivery ofthe
Program with a young people focus and lens. Thisrole 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 socialsciences, developmentstudies, Education or Psychology. Masters degree is an added advantage.
• Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management is added advantage
• Minimumof 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 engagementstrategies 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 settingsis an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel to remote districts of Uganda to support partners as and when required.
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