Youth Outreach and Engagement Assistant

Deadline: 5 April 2024
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Job Description:

UNFPA CO Country Programme Document (CPD) comprises work in four key components: sexual and reproductive health (SRH), gender equality and violence prevention (GBV), youth and peacebuilding (Youth), and population dynamics (PD). These components reflect the need for supporting the governments at various levels in BiH to deliver on their ICPD commitments. Under the Youth portfolio, UNFPA is implementing two concurrent and complementary initiatives – Youth 4 Inclusion, Equality and Trust project, funded by UN Peacebuilding fund; and Moving us closer project, funded by the Italian government that involves direct engagement with 15 municipalities across BiH and the region. This partnership will be the most intensive one that UNFPA had in terms of local engagement and requires dedicated support. Additionally, Youth component will implement an additional project with Slovenian government, focused on the cross-section between gender equality and environmental preservation. With that in mind, UNFPA CO is looking for a Youth Engagement and Outreach Assistant to support this growing portfolio.

The incumbent we are looking for will need to be knowledgeable about youth sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina and skilled in youth-focused networking, communications project implementation to support UNFPA Country Office in empowering young people with skills to bring about positive change in their lives and communities.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

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