Technical Expert - Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship

VSO is looking for an experienced and technically strong specialist in Youth Employment and entrepreneurship programming, to help lead the implementation of our Resilient Livelihoods strategy, with its assets and capabilities core and our "volunteering for development" approach, and around which VSO is seeking to build a unique identity in livelihoods programming.

This is an exciting and challenging new role. You will provide technical leadership to a globally dispersed team of staff and volunteers to identify, test and document new and promising practices across VSO's Youth Employment and entrepreneurship programmes, mainly in Tanzania but also in Cambodia and other countries in Africa and Asia. The overall purpose of the role is to support improvement in the quality and impact of VSO's Resilient programmes globally. This will enable VSO to document, replicate and expand effective approaches, with the aim of helping more of the world's poor and marginalised people to achieve their livelihood aspirations.

You must be willing and able to work effectively, creatively and pro-actively in a networked, collaborative environment with colleagues based in different countries and from different professional disciplines, including front line programme delivery, funding and business pursuit, people resourcing, MEL (monitoring, evaluation and learning) and finance and grant management.