IPPF Global Lead - Youth Jobs in Kenya

Job Purpose

To lead IPPF’s work globally on youth engagement and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) ensuring that a strategic, integrated approach maximises success in delivering on the outcomes
and deliverables of the IPPF Strategic Framework 2016-2022.

The role will lead on rolling out IPPF youth centred framework, ensuring youth involvement is fully mainstreamed in IPPF programming and structures, as well as supporting the advancement of IPPF’s
work on all aspects of youth, including youth leadership, comprehensive sexuality education, advocacy and youth friendly services.

As youth leader, the postholder will engage with stakeholders at all levels of the Federation, optimising new ways of working with a globally matrixed team to drive impact with and for young people across the
globe.

Key Tasks

Strategic Integrated Approach

Lead the development of an overarching global agenda that will draw together the many and varied strands of IPPF’s work on youth - youth engagement and leadership, CSE, youth led advocacy and youth friendly services - and support the effective mainstreaming of the youth centred approach in Member Associations and the Secretariat.

Lead and facilitate the development of a clear multi-level Secretariat-wide results framework for youth,
co-ordinating with youth network and Secretariat colleagues to draw together the overarching inputs and outputs of the youth strategy that deliver against the results and outcomes of the IPPF Strategic Framework.

Drive these results, and IPPF’s global leadership on the SRHR of youth, through enabling the roll out of innovative and successful approaches from Member Associations; driving effective programme development, optimising impactful partnerships and maximising capacity sharing.

People Leadership, Facilitation and Co-ordination

Co-ordinate a globally matrixed team, supporting a new culture and approach that facilitates and empowers staff with relevant expertise to help shape a global vision and frameworks, that support and enable them to deliver globally, or locally as relevant.

Work through Youth forums and with other global leads and colleagues beyond the global youth team to drive a supportive environment for youth and enable the roll-out of the Youth Centred Approach in the Secretariat and the Member Associations.

Coordinate Youth Forums, ensuring the implementation of the Youth Manifesto for meaningful youth volunteer engagement across the Federation.

Knowledge Management, Learning and Technical Excellence

Drive a learning-led approach to the youth work in IPPF, optimizing the benefits of the expertise and skills of the global youth team and colleagues in Knowledge Management and Capacity Sharing, to empower the Federation with the most up to date technical knowledge and emerging best practice coming from MAs and from outside IPPF.

Coordinate and provide technical advice and support in the formulation and monitoring of policies and innovative/ transformative programme approaches that demonstrate impact for youth.

Ensure IPPF is equipped with guidance documents and technical tools relating to youth and CSE that provide practical advice to Member Associations, Youth

Networks and Centres of Excellence, enabling them to implement, to share knowledge and to lead initiatives on behalf of the Federation.

Partnerships and External Relations

Support the global team to cooperate and build alliances with international/specialist partners and youth-led organizations who can help deliver IPPF strategic goals related to youth and drive SRHR impact for young people, particularly marginalised and vulnerable young people.

Leverage IPPF’s expertise and learning for the benefit of the wider SRHR community and raise the profile of IPPF as an innovative and expert SRHR organization through sharing of results in publications, conferences and other networking opportunities that contribute to advancing the SRHR community.

Resource Mobilisation

Identify new opportunities and funding for IPPF, including assisting the development of proposals with key Secretariat and Member Association staff.

Other

Ensure gender is effectively mainstreamed within the remit of the post and in line with IPPF’s Gender

Education and Qualification

• Degree or equivalent standard of education essential – ideally in human rights, international development or relations, public policy, or other social sciences.

• Qualifications in SRHR or youth related policy issues desirable

Proven Ability

• Advanced application in youth work, preferably in the international arena

• Technical knowledge/understanding of youth issues and youth centred approaches to programming

• Understanding of SRHR, international development and humanitarian sector, human rights and gender equality

• Knowledge/experience of implementing safeguarding and child protection policies.

• Experience managing geographically dispersed and/or matrixed teams an asse

• Experience of working in an organisation dealing with a breadth of fast-changing and controversial issues.

• Experience leading youth networks/organisations/movements

• Experience of supporting NGOs or partners to drive change at national level, including an
understanding of the challenges and capacity needs of national organisations working in service provision and national advocacy.

• Fluent in English and French (both oral and written) is mandatory. Knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic would be an additional advantage.

Personal Competencies

• Empathy

• Ability to influence

• Ability to manage conflict

• Strong communicator

• Awareness of and sensitivity to the multi-cultural and diverse environment in which IPPF
operates.

• Understanding of and a commitment to safeguarding including child protection, in a local and international context.

• Strong commitment to the values of IPPF.

• Willing to travel internationally - approximately 50 days per year.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; IPPF Global Lead - Youth Jobs in Kenya

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