Youth Engagement Associate

Overview

The Youth Engagement Associate will coordinate the day-to-day operations of Young People's Action Team (YPAT) programmes and support GenU 9JA communications and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate YPAT programmes and engagement, including structured monthly check-ins and maintaining a membership database.
• Design and implement YPAT engagement strategy, including onboarding, capacity building, and youth leadership development.
• Coordinate YPAT-led campaigns, community activations, and content production.
• Facilitate YPAT representation in national and international GenU 9JA convenings.
• Manage inputs into GenU 9JA visibility channels by amplifying youth voices and documenting programmatic impact.
• Produce human-interest stories, press releases, media kits, photos, short-form videos, and other multimedia content.
• Design and produce visual assets for GenU 9JA campaigns and events.
• Coordinate content production by YPAT members and external creators.
• Support the launch and rollout of the flagship National Youth Campaign.
• Support the maintenance of the GenU 9JA content library.
• Support event coordination, logistics, participant mobilisation, and on-ground documentation of GenU 9JA activities.
• Support youth mobilisation and outreach across YOMA to drive participation in GenU 9JA opportunities.
• Support the coordination of GenU 9JA partner engagements and joint activities.
• Support the collection, verification, and consolidation of YPAT engagement data and GenU 9JA programme reach numbers.
• Support the preparation of GenU 9JA quarterly progress reports, donor reports, and the Annual Report.
• Contribute to the documentation and dissemination of best practices, case studies, and lessons learned.
• Maintain accurate records of YPAT campaign metrics, content production outputs, and event participation.

Required Experience

• 1 month relevant experience.
• Experience of coordinating youth-led networks or community-based groups is highly desirable.
• Experience of working with UNICEF, the UN system, GenU, or youth-focused development platforms is an asset.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Business, Education, or a related field.

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