Job ID 2013-1337 # Positions 1

Location US-NC-Chapel Hill

Experience (Years) 5

Posted Date 1/23/2013 Category Hidden (11338)

Education Requirement Master's Relocation Eligible Yes

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Overview: 

This position will implement activities designed to strength young persons’ leadership, mobilization, and access to information and services. This position has a global reach, with primary focus on Asia. The Youth Associate is supervised by the Manager & Senior Associate of the Global Youth Program (GYP). 

 

Responsibilities: 

• ·Work with multiple teams to conceptualize and develop strategies for youth work.
• ·Ensure regional and country plans are consistent with the GYP strategic and implementation plan, and support implementation of country-specific youth strategies.
• ·Support fundraising through project design, donor document writing and donor communication.
• ·Support development and adaptation of global tools and resources on youth strategies.
• ·Support the development of skills and capacity of global, regional and in-county staff to integrate youth into ongoing health systems and community outreach work.
• ·Support knowledge sharing activities to ensure cross-unit and organization-wide collaboration, including regional capacity strengthening efforts, specifically on youth work and youth integration.
• ·In coordination with other teams design, implement, monitor and evaluate youth-related activities projects focused on health systems and community outreach.
• ·Act as liaison between the Global Youth Program and the Global Communications team, including supporting integration of appropriate youth information and language in select publications, trainings, and materials.
• ·Responsible for the Youth intranet site.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting international health and/or rights programs with a focus on young people’s SRHR;
• A master’s degree in public health, communications, community development, international studies or related field;
• Strong skills and experience in project design, management, and strategic planning;
• Technical expertise in health systems and community-level youth SRH projects;
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal English language communication skills;
• Ability to work independently as well as member of teams;
• Cross cultural/language skills preferred;
• Experience working in several Asian countries; and
• Ability to travel internationally 20% of the time.

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