Youth Engagement and Participation Officer

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Youth and adolescent programme namely, Increased opportunities for participation and empowerment of Lebanese and Non-Lebanese youth enabling their healthy lifestyles and active engagement in their communities.
Under this output, the programme interventions address the expansion of meaningful participation of young girls and boys in Lebanon. Through increasing access to meaningful civic engagement opportunities, young girls and boys will be trained to develop, implement, and lead initiatives for addressing issues of importance in their lives and for improving their communities. UNICEF will support the establishment and empowerment of youth mechanisms/. that will be established to expand opportunities for adolescents and youth to connect with NGOs/CBOs to find appropriate volunteer opportunities at the local level. When adolescents and youth are empowered to play meaningful roles in their communities, given a sense of purpose, evidence shows that they make positive/healthy choices and transcend violence and discrimination.

Moreover, the programme seeks to create innovative models of youth engagement to identify, analyze, and take l action against challenges in their communities—helping disadvantaged young people realize their role as agents of social change, and building their knowledge and skills, professional readiness, and resilience along the way. It will increase the capacity of institutions engaged in health promotion and education, as well as in women and girl’s empowerment, to prepare young people become productive members of the society.. The achievement of concrete and sustainable results from these programmes contribute to achievement of UNICEF goals in Lebanon to promote the full and active participation of adolescents in determining their essential needs, promoting their rights to a safe environment, and protecting their rights to survival, development and well-being in society. Achievements in programmes and projects in turn contribute to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to provide programme services for mothers and children that promotes greater social equality and inclusion in the country.

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Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Adolescent Development Specialist, the UNV Youth Engagement and Participation Officer will:

• Support the youth engagement and participations progamme component, including development, planning, and monitoring with a focus on key programmes such as Nahno- Volunteers, Youth Advisory Groups and Youth Climate Groups and U-Reports
• Support the review of research and analyze regional and national political, health, social and economic development trends.
• Collect, analyze, verify, and synthesize information to facilitate programme development, design and preparation, review inputs for programme preparation and documentation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and relevancy of information.
• Provide support to the youth and adolescent section with the mental health and Psychosocial Support (PSS) components under the life skills program.
• Provide operational support to the Adolescent and Youth Officers throughout all stages of programming processes by executing/administering a variety of program, operational and administrative transactions, to support program planning, results-based planning (RBM) and monitoring and evaluating results.
• Provide needed support to monitoring program activities related to youth engagement in the field, and track/consolidate challenges identified in partner reports to develop recommendations for improving program quality; Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.
• Support the civic engagement program and the volunteering platform; act as support at the Volunteer task force to follow up and monitor the implementations of the project under guidance of the supervisor.
• Follow up on the Youth lead initiative component implementation, monitoring, follow up and reporting.
• Support in the capacity building for the UNICEF partners and be able to identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and support in building the capacity of stakeholders.
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in, and capacities developed.