JSI Research & Training Institute

This role offers an excellent platform for professional development. World Education, a division of JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc (JSI/WE) is seeking a Youth Employment Specialist for the anticipated USAID Ghana Youth Activity, a program aimed at improving the socioeconomic status of youth in northern Ghana through youth-led and youth-serving organizations. Position Overview: Job Title: Positive Youth Development Technical Advisor

• The program will focus on generating cross-sectoral engagement and positive youth development (PYD) outcomes, allowing youth to make better life decisions and influence policy.

• The Positive Youth Development Technical Advisor will work closely with government agencies, vocational training associations, and a network of youth-led/serving organizations to develop and implement the overall program’s youth development strategy and design evidence-based interventions to successfully engage youth, women and vulnerable populations in program activities.

• In addition to providing technical guidance and leadership, s/he will foster effective partnerships, representation and outreach with key stakeholders: federal government ministries, regional government bodies, relevant civic organizations and NGOs to coordinate program activities, ensure sustainability, and advance the positive youth development learning agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the mainstreaming of PYD across the program, including supporting staff to understand PYD principles and actively integrate them in their technical, operational, and/or Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) work;

• Coordinate effective partnerships with local youth education and employment institutions, relevant public and private sector partners, civil society and youth-led and youth-serving organizations that the program should seek to engage with, including organizations serving distinct groups of young people and/or with expertise in ethnic inclusion, gender, disability inclusion, and other topics of relevance;

• Implement Gender and Youth Social Inclusion-focused research, including analyses, assessments, and other learning studies to better understand barriers to and entry points for positive youth development with technical teams;

• Design activities that target diverse groups of youth, including age- and developmentally-appropriate activities, and activities that are responsive to and target marginalized youth groups (e.g., young women, youth with disabilities, and Fulbe youth, etc.);

• Strengthen the capacity staff, partners, and stakeholders to integrate gender equity, PYD, and other social inclusion considerations into intervention design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation;

• Develop evidence-based gender and youth strategies with program staff and partners to ensure effective integration ...