Youth Engagement Officer
Ngo & Social Services Jobs
- BOOST Fellowship
- Expires 10 Jun 2023
- Bulawayo
- Internship
Job Description
The central role of the Youth Engagement Officer is to support adolescents and young people aged 14-24 to gain innovation and business skills for the development of appropriate home-bred innovations and technologies to power up social, economic and environmental impact for their communities.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support to the Social Innovation Hub through ensuring that the adolescents and youth engagement strategy is operationalized
- Complete a mapping exercise of schools, universities, and NGOs working on youth issues towards liaising with youth, and promoting registration.
-Strengthen the Innovation Hub to conduct innovation workshops and event based activities.
- Support the creation and coordination of a new youth research programme to enable youth participants to submit projects proposals and innovations for Innovation Challenges at the Hub
- Support the knowledge management team to document lessons learnt and good practices on the innovation initiatives.
- Develop communication materials for knowledge dissemination, including managing a bilingual online documentation platform.
- Online knowledge dissemination platform and content management on a regular basis.
Qualifications and Experience
- A first University Degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, business development, entrepreneurship and innovation
- At least 2-3 years of experience in a youth network or NGO, preferably in the field of youth participation.
-Capacity to lobby and persuade stakeholders to partner with the Innovation Hub
-Capacity to liaise and work collaboratively with service providers, networks, government, community and young people.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
- Strong communication skills both oral and written .
- Familiarity with using social media platforms
-Below the age of 35 years
How to Apply
If you believe you are the right candidate for any of the above position, please send your detailed curriculum vitae (CV), and cover letter
All applications should be submitted not later than 10 June 2023. Please note the applications will be reviewed as they come in.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
E-mail: Applications including at least three traceable referees should be sent electronically to: boostfellowship@gmail.com
The BOOST Fellowship is an equal opportunities employer and encourages all eligible applicants to apply without any consideration to sex, cultural consideration, disability or creed.
The BOOST Fellowship holds a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered.
Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes
