Youth Engagement Associate (Partnership & Communication)

UNICEF works in the world’s toughest places to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive and fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines, we support child health and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, quality education and skill building, HIV prevention and treatment for mothers and babies, and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation. Before, during and after humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF is on the ground, bringing lifesaving help and hope to children and families. Non-political and impartial, we are never neutral when it comes to defending children’s rights and safeguarding their lives and futures.

UNICEF Senegal must continuously and strategically place key issues related to children on the international scene, in the national dialogue and at the heart of the country’s public and political agenda. The Partnerships, Advocacy and Communications section supports the country office’s public and political advocacy, partnerships, strategic alliances and resource mobilization efforts with the aim of influencing public policies, fueling social engagement and directing private and public resources in favor of children. The section ensures that the organization is positioned as a credible and trusted voice for children and is perceived as relevant to guide and influence the dialogue on children’s rights in Senegal.

To support achievements of Country Programme expected results, UNICEF Senegal is seek-ing a motivated and committed Youth Engagement Associate to proactively provide opportuni-ties for adolescents/young people to communicate and advocate for their rights, concerns and needs; engage influencers who strengthen young peoples’ voices; create content that engag-es youth on a range of media platforms (including digital); and work with young people to speak out about their rights to a range of influential audiences, including decision makers and the private sector.

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Partnerships, Advocacy and Communication, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:


Communication and advocacy

1. Provide and galvanize platforms for adolescents/young people to communicate and advocate for their rights, to help them speak out to a range of influential audiences, in-cluding decision makers and the private sector
2. Assist in the development and implementation of communication content development with and for youth as part of campaigns and advocacy priorities.
3. Identify and distribute new youth focused media content (stories, ideas, videos, photo-graphs and blogs) for placement on UNICEF platforms and other media outlets (includ-ing digital)
4. Support content moderation, community management, content creation and M&E for youth focused digital platforms/communities.
5. Support the implementation of a local Youth Advocates programme: researching po-tential youth advocates; supporting workplan development and communication; sup-porting youth advocates in preparation for events/media; documenting learnings and successes.

Celebrities, partners and special events

6. Support programme colleagues in organizing and coordinating national, regional and global programme related advocacy events and campaigns, by securing the participa-tion of young people from partner organizations, youth networks and vulnerable areas.

7. Support the preparation and implementation of events related to youth engagement.

Coalition, Advocacy and Networking

8. Identify, contact and engage youth networks, influencers and advocates, including digi-tal ones, to drive engagement with adolescent and youth to help creating enabling en-vironment for youth participation and advocacy.

9. Identify good practices and opportunities and how they can be most effectively applied to deepen outreach and engagement with youth audiences.

10. Explore the expansion of Generation Unlimited activities in the area of the Communi-cation, Advocacy and Partnerships and how we can reach more young people and ad-olescents

11. Support the CO to organize workshop, community consultations, adolescent engage-ment through Human Centered Design process, and capacity building in general in support of office-wide cross-sectoral adolescent engagement.

Stakeholder engagement:

12. Research current and potential partners. Assist and maintain a database of formal and informal partnerships and networks whose support is essential to achieving objectives. Support the flow of information to key stakeholders.

Innovations

13. Support the expansion and the promotion of the U-Report initiative in Senegal through communication and youth engagement initiatives and explore possibilities of imple-menting Blogging and Vlogging internships and workshops, Digital Mapping, Internet of Good Things (IoGT), Write 2 Unite, Info bots …)

14. Identify new opportunities and innovative approaches to continually improve our youth engagement initiatives across digital platforms to deepen engagement with supporters

Monitoring, evaluation and documentation

15. Undertake regular monitoring and evaluation activities according to the work plan to ensure maximum impact and continuous improvement of youth participation and ex-pression efforts. Ensure results and reports are prepared and shared on a timely basis.

Documentation

16. Document youth initiatives through different multimedia products and share them through different communication channels targeting youth and larger audiences.