Project and Youth Engagement Manager

Location: Multiple within MEESA Region, Kenya Company: Plan International ROLE PROFILE Title Project and Youth Engagement Manager Functional Area (job family/role type) Influencing Discipline/field Partnerships Management Specialism Youth Engagement Reports to: Head of Regional Influencing and Strategic Communications dotted line to Civil Society Strengthening and Partnership Specialist Office location: Nairobi Travel required:40% Geographical scope of role MEESA RH Effective Date: ASAP Grade: Female applicants are encouraged to apply ROLE PURPOSE Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls. (IMPORTANT:Earn 200K working in NGOs, UN, UNDP, World Bank, International Development Community, UNESCO, WHO, USAID.Get the details click here) The role of the Projects and Youth Engagement Coordinator is to support the CSO Project administration, partner reporting, ensuring quality reporting and implementation of the Regional projects. The position will be in charge of project related internal and external communication maintaining close communication with the project partners, Plan MEESA regional Office, country offices and relevant external audiences. The position will support project management, including review of and compilation of partner proposals and implementation reports, Plan internal project management systems updates, project record keeping among other project management tasks. The position will also lead plan international’s youth influencing work in MEESA region, and position Plan International as reliable partner and a facilitator of youth – ensuring that young people are proactively and meaningfully involved in the decision-making processes at a global, regional and country level, and throughout relevant work streams. The position will help to strengthen and scale up young people’s participation in programmes, partnerships, innovations and advocacy platforms. The role will work closely with country offices, to provide support and coordinate youth engagement work and provide advice and capacity building support to regional youth led organisations to strengthen their organisational and activism capacities to enable their active participation in campaigning and to increase young people’s leadership on issues that matters to them. ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES Regional Projects coordination, planning & Implementation (40%) – Plan for, manage and schedule project management and other meetings, communicate schedules, capture proceedings, action points and reports on the same. – Identify and manage project risks – Promote the realization of set targets quality outcomes. – Smooth efficient project performance and effective management of and communication with project partners and donor. – Provide an external audience packaging for partner reports as part of the Regional Hub, project activities and partner profiling. – SAP online support and regular project maintenance to align project implementation to SAP system alignment. – Conduct regular partner site visits to deepen the partnership relationship and identify and offer support for any emerging challenges, programmatic, financial, institutional or any other. – FAD drafting, review and amendments to align agreement to Partner agreements and FADS. – Attending, preparing and packaging partner briefs for dissemination within Plan and with outside audiences. – Keep updated about the project development and perform necessary communication with partners and other stakeholder to follow up on deadline, project changes and key timelines/Schedules. – Keep record of projects including events; manage project files and or any other relevant project documents and records. – Partner support including workshop planning and logistics on a needs basis. – Strengthen collaboration working with the CSSP specialist to strengthen capacity of partners while employing the Building Better Partnerships principles (IMPORTANT:Write a Perfect Cover Letter in minutes and start getting interviews! 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Budget Management (10%) – Monitor expenditures to promote prudent budget management and adherence to approved budget. – Review and submit financial reports according to donor regulations supported by the Finance and Grants Coordinator – Develop project implementation plan and update project Budget in close collaboration with partners Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting (10%) – In liaison with the M&E Hub Coordinator, collect and collate project specific data and compile reports while drawing out learnings to improve project design, implementation and learning. – Develop quality and timely reports in accordance with donor guidelines and procedures. – With support of M&E Hub Coordinator, enhance learning and knowledge management through documentation and profiling of Plan’s work. – Promote evidence-based learning and programming Build and maintain stakeholder relations (10%) – Maintain a clear communication line with Donor (SNO), partners and Plan MEESA, Plan International AU Liaison Office (PAO), and other Plan International offices. – Participate in external meeting with partners and other stakeholders on project’s deliverables. – Promote sensitization of stakeholders and partners on Plan’s policies, strategies, procedures, values and behaviours. – Coordinate with other NGOs, local and private sector players working within the operational areas to expand opportunities for partnerships. Youth Engagement Strategic Support (15%) Support the adoption and the implementation of the new global youth strategy at the regional level – Support in the localising and implementation of Plan International’s youth strategy at the regional level, in collaboration with relevant colleagues at country, regional and global levels. – Lead on all youth related events at regional level and support the organization of the regional youth influencing camp – Oversee the co-creation, co-implementation and co-evaluation of specific youth engagement platforms and initiatives (including regional and multi-country ones) on thematic priorities. – Support the Global Hub, National and Country offices when young activists from the region are participating in major international and regional events – Oversee the recruitment of additional regional young Champions and Leaders Youth- led Influencing (15%) Working together with activists, regional children and youth/girls movements, committed to equality for girls to mutualise resources and capacities to influence the state of girls in the region. – Develop modalities for strengthening meaningful and representative youth engagement through training, networking, exchanges, and building stronger linkages between young people’s participation in regional processes and mechanisms as well as seeking influencing opportunities in line with our priorities. – Support building organisational capacities of Youth led organisations – Support the development of innovative Youth led initiatives at regional level. – Connect national level initiatives to regional opportunities and spaces – Ensure visibility of our work with youth/girls and will facilitate sharing and learning among countries within the region and above Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) • Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures. • Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies; • Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work. • Ensures to contribute to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Knowledge and experience • Minimum Bachelors in social or political sciences or any other relevant degree. • Knowledge and professional experience in the area of project management especially those around civil society strengthening, child rights and child / youth governance and participation. • Demonstrated technical experience Monitoring Evaluation, reporting and Learning (MERL) • Knowledge of results-based project management or logical framework, or rights-based programing. • Understanding of youth movements and youth activism approaches and trends in MEESA region including the intersectionalities of youth movements and of strategies to support cross-movement and intergenerational learning, collaboration and influencing. • Knowledge of working directly with children and youth in participatory ways to develop youth-led influencing strategies and campaigns for change including experience of developing and delivering advocacy strategies and/or campaigns preferably with a gender equality or girl-led focus • Advanced practical understanding of child and youth safeguarding and child rights, current issues and best practice including child protection issues associated with youth campaigning and advocacy including digital safety • Demonstrated facilitation and training experience. • Prior experience with SAP financial system. Skills: • Excellent command of English, both spoken and written. • Experience in strategic youth advocacy and activism at the local, national and/or global level • Analytical skills including comfortable in gender analysis • Experience preparing young people for advocacy engagements, activities and opportunities e.g. meetings with decision-maker, speech development, key messages development, communications plans. • Knowledge and competence in identifying risks and mitigation processes that are associated with youth influencing – risks that young influencers in particular face to their activism and their security and wellbeing. • Listening, communications and negotiation between organisations and among different stakeholders at all moments when developing, nurturing and ending a partnership Apply Now