Youth Development Delegate/Project Assistant

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Mission and objectives

The UNDP Tunisia Country Office (CO) leads UNDP’s support to Tunisia in the achievement of its national human and sustainable development objectives in alignment with its national Agenda 2030 and the Paris Climate Agreement commitments. UNDP Tunisia works on areas such as 1) inclusive growth and human development; 2) climate action, environment, energy and disaster risk reduction; and 3) support to inclusive political processes, responsive institutions, rule of law, social cohesion, electoral support and empowerment of women and youth. The UNDP Resident Representative (RR) leads and oversees the work of the Country Office, including a total of 140 staff and personnel and a delivery of around $11 million in programmatic support to Tunisia in 2020. The RR also leads UNDP Tunisia’s efforts in cultivating, building, and nurturing strategic relationships and alliances which are essential for advancing and successfully achieving the mission of UNDP. These relationships encompass a wide range and number of key constituencies and development partners, that includes the Government of Tunisia, existing and emerging donor countries, multilateral institutions such as the IFIs, the European Union, civil society, the private sector, foundations, academia and think tanks, the wider UN system, as well as global, regional and national media. As a trusted and impartial partner working at the intersection of social, economic and environmental agendas in Tunisia, UNDP plays a central role in supporting Tunisia’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and has supported the Government to develop and revise its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for climate action.

Context

In partnership with the Arab Youth Center in the UAE, UNDP is recruiting young people across the Arab State region to work on youth development in their respective countries. The objective of this assignment is to support youth programming at the country level as well as the regional and global level. The Youth Development Delegate/Project Assistant will work under the supervision and guidance of the UNDP Youth Focal Points both at the country (Tunisia) and regional levels (SHABABeek project). S/he will be an integral part of the UNDP Country office and Regional Programme team and will play an important role supporting UNDP’s Country Offices and partners, with a strong focus on coordination, advocacy, planning, and evaluation. In Tunisia, Youth between 18-35 represent 38% of the overall active Tunisian population (between 15-60), while 40,8% of them (40,3% of young men and 41,6% of young women) are jobless; and another significative part is underemployed. This trend results from structural factors, such as the inadequacy between the qualifications and trainings dedicated to young people and the needs existing on the labour market. This is worsened by multiple layers of conjunctural elements such as the economic conjuncture and the sanitarian situation. Furthermore, the constant evolutive political context has affected young people trust in public institutions, as well as the intergenerational dialogue, resulting in an overall feeling of being marginalized and stigmatized. Those challenges impact significantly the perspectives of socio-economic development and reinforce inequalities and precarity to which young people are directly affected. Thus, they are particularly vulnerable and suffer from a lack of personal and professional growth. This lead to a feeling of disenchantment resulting in multiple consequences such as brain drain, irregular migration, use of violence against oneself or against others. In this context, UNDP Tunisia has been supporting the Youth sector in developing efficient programs answering Young peoples’ needs, at the national level aside the ministry of Youth and Sports, and at the local level in municipalities and Youth Centers. To approach the complex challenges young Tunisians are facing, UNDP Tunisia is currently pooling its experiences and efforts related to Youth across its interventions, which is an exercise the Project Assistant will support.

Task description

The Project Assistant is expected to substantially contribute to the effective management of youth programming by performing the following duties: • Directly supports the Regional Youth Project, inclusive of the Green Growth and Jobs Accelerator, plus where relevant and youth programming by following up on implementation, coordinating with partners and UNDP Country Offices, accessing regional networks, creating linkages and providing technical support; • Contributes to strategic planning, developing innovative responses to emerging challenges and opportunities for youth in the Arab region around SDGs; • Supports the timely preparation and quality control of all substantive technical reports, briefs and required documents, including progress reports, concept notes, background documents and briefing notes; • Works closely with the regional team members in the development of project activities to promote youth’s social, political and economic empowerment in the Arab region; • Publicly advocating for and speaking out on youth engagement in development (and the pursuit of SDGs achievement) nationally, which will include monthly vlogs, leading online public webinars, and social media outreach; • Facilitates the delivery of YLP activities by monitoring results achieved during implementation. S/he ensures and guides the appropriate application of monitoring, reporting and evaluation systems and procedures and develops enhancements if necessary; • Captures stories which reflect on know how (procedures, processes, tactics) and know why (lessons learned, reasons for failures/success); • Coordinates work and information for the NextGenYouth Platform Tunisia country page including its’s mentorship support component, where relevant; • Conducts an overview and analysis of the relevant partners, donors and stakeholders to the project, and develops a plan for efficient flow of information between them and the project, and vice versa; • Support the Development of general tools/guidelines for operative communication measures at regional/national/local levels, for instance press releases, social media, press events, social media and campaigns; • Carrying out other tasks as assigned by Regional Coordinator and/or the Youth Focal point at the CO level, both in coordination, and any other required administrative work.