Youth Engagement Associate at Intergovernmental Authority on Development

The Youth Engagement Associate will support the planning, coordination, and implementation of youth-focused activities of the project. The role requires working closely with youth groups, partners, and stakeholders to ensure meaningful youth participation and effective project delivery including AGRA-ICPAC project team and various departments of ICPAC and IGAD especially with the communication and gender teams. She/He will work with youth organizations, young people and supporters of youth working in Africa in general and the project focus countries in particular. The Youth Engagement will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Map youth-led climate-focused organisations, innovation hubs, cooperatives, associations, networks and groups across select countries

• Collaborate with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to co-produce tailored climate services and deliver them to youth in the agri-food systems value chain

• Train youth farmers in the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) approach

• Foster partnerships with existing agricultural extension systems to expand young farmers access to advisory services

• Facilitate consultation forums with youth and youth groups to capture their priorities and challenges, and advocate for their perspectives to be considered in climate-related decisions

• Build youth capacity through training in a range of topics including climate adaptation, climate justice, advocacy and effective communication strategies

• Organise interactive sessions with experts, agri-preneurs, and private sector actors on climate services, green jobs and innovation

• Support the design and launch of youth-led digital tools that can facilitate the delivery of localised and user-friendly climate services

• Explore partnerships with private sector actors, such as climate-tech firms, to support and scale youth-led initiatives

• Facilitate youth participation in national, regional and international climate and agri-food systems forums

• Capture, document and disseminate best practices and lesson learnt from youth engagement to foster peer learning, scale successful models, and inform policy.

• Report progress to internal and external stakeholders via meetings, written reports and presentations

• Prepare and contribute to reports, including progress reports and final reports in consultation with AGRA-ICPAC project team and relevant ICPAC departments for soliciting report content.

• Support implementation of overall project activities

• Participate in organizing project activities (gatherings, workshops, trainings, etc.) and support implementing team as needed

• Establish and maintain strong relationships...