Overview
Provide regional technical leadership and quality assurance in volunteering development assistance to National Societies (NS) under global direction. This includes strengthening NS local units/branches and their services, and ensuring coherence in approaches.
Key Responsibilities
- Adapt global tools on volunteering, branch development, and youth engagement to NS contexts.
- Identify opportunities and develop new initiatives to assist NS in strengthening their regular services.
- Provide assistance in NS membership drives.
- Support NS to establish structured approaches to Branch Development.
- Foster peer learning and experience exchange in Branch twinning, forums, and seed funding.
- Provide assistance in data collection on NS volunteers, members, local units, and branches.
- Develop and/or identify good practices of promoting voluntary services.
- Coordinate and support activities of the Europe and Central Asia Youth Network.
- Provide input and feedback on the use of global indicators to measure progress.
- Promote, monitor, and provide technical guidance on adherence to IFRC policies and global standards.
- Ensure IFRC global campaigns and events on youth, volunteering, and voluntary service are managed effectively.
- Contribute to and technically lead advocacy initiatives on priority areas.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of work experience at a NS or other non-profit organisations.
- Management roles and experience is an advantage.
- Proven experience in volunteer management.
- Team building and engagement for multidisciplinary interventions.
- Proven experience in facilitating an organisational change process (preferred).
- Experience in social mobilisation for grass root services/initiatives including resource mobilization and fundraising (preferred).
- Experience in youth mobilisation including through sport-based work (preferred).
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in social work or related areas; Extensive practical experience can be considered in lieu of academic qualification.
- Training in non-profit management (preferred).
