Programme Officer - Youth Movements and Feminist Leadership Support (P2), PG - Education (UNGEI), NYHQ # 00124835 [Temporary Appointment]

The purpose of this role is to identify, support and strengthen youth and feminist movements across the UNGEI partnership, and to strengthen feminist leadership within UNGEI networks. The Youth Movements and Feminist Leadership Officer is primarily responsible for two streams of work: one, leading UNGEI’s work to partner with and support feminist youth leaders’ participation and two, programme coordination on feminist capacity building among education actors. The Officer will also be UNGEI’s lead for ensuring that UNGEI undertakes an intergenerational approach in all of its work. This includes working to advance the leadership of young feminist advocacy and activism in the movement for gender equality in and through education. The Officer will also play a key role in UNGEI’s mandate to bridge the feminist movement with the gender equality and education movement.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

UNGEI is a global partnership for gender equality in and through education. Our mandate is to catalyze and galvanize action locally, nationally, regionally and global for girls’ education and gender equality in education. We bring together diverse partners to develop and implement bold commitments to gender equality in education. We convene global, regional and local conversations and action for girls’ education and gender equality in education, including through the leadership of young feminist activists around the world. UNGEI partners include multilaterals, regional umbrella and intergovernmental organizations, national and global civil society organizations and young feminist leaders.  UNGEI is a part of UNICEF.

For every child, a bright future

The purpose of this role is to identify, support and strengthen youth and feminist movements across the UNGEI partnership, and to strengthen feminist leadership within UNGEI networks. The Youth Movements and Feminist Leadership Officer is primarily responsible for two streams of work: one, leading UNGEI’s work to partner with and support feminist youth leaders’ participation and two, programme coordination on feminist capacity building among education actors. The Officer will also be UNGEI’s lead for ensuring that UNGEI undertakes an intergenerational approach in all of its work. This includes working to advance the leadership of young feminist advocacy and activism in the movement for gender equality in and through education. The Officer will also play a key role in UNGEI’s mandate to bridge the feminist movement with the gender equality and education movement.

How can you make a difference?

Coordinate and manage Feminist School and Young Feminist Fund

• Support the development, implementation and monitoring of the delivery of different editions of Feminist School and Young Feminist Grants
• Facilitate existing and new partnerships to sustain and scale up the Feminist School and Young Feminist Fund. 
• Organize and provide inputs to the advisory groups for Feminist School and Young Feminist Fund.
• Support the preparation of project reports.

Support and coordinate youth and feminist movements:

• Support and supervise Transform Education, the young feminist coalition hosted by UNGEI. Includes coaching and facilitating learning opportunities.
• Coordinate and/or support working groups and networks, including Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education, Global Partnership for CSE, and Youth 2030 Working Group; and foster youth feminist participation and movement building within the SRGBV Working Group, Partner Coalition to End Gender Stereotypes in Classrooms, Advisory Groups for Feminist School and Young Feminist Fund
• Identify, facilitate and nurture new partnerships with diverse feminist led and youth led networks for potential collaboration and engagements, especially less represented groups like those focusing on disabilities, LGBTQIA+, marginalized ethnic and religious communities and others.
• Develop standards and criteria for meaningful feminist youth participation and support UNGEI members, GCI partners and others to take these up.
• Work closely with the child safeguarding expert in the ADAP team to ensure UNGEI’s adherence to principles of child/youth participation and safeguarding when assisting in the development/implementation of all campaigns, events, communication products and platforms.

Lead and support campaigning, advocacy and events 

• Develop and contribute to campaigns, advocacy activities and events around gender equality in and through education by ensuring meaningful young feminist participation and feminist leadership. 
• Ensure there is young feminist participation from UNGEI networks in global advocacy moments and events (ie. Summit of the Future, UNGA, CSW, COP etc.).
• Support the creation of digital content for and amplify intergenerational and youth feminist work.

Support feminist leadership within and beyond UNGEI

• Working closely with the UNGEI Director, identify entry points to support and encourage UNGEI partner organizations to coalesce and work jointly on feminist principles and actions.
• Support the Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education with linkages to young feminist activists and other feminist leaders from developing countries and working on UNGEI’s focus areas with a focus on LGBTQ experts and advocates.
• Support UNGEI and partners to identify opportunities to make their resources more accessible to youth feminist networks and young activists.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• A university degree (Bachelor’s) in one of the following fields: gender or women’s studies, education, sociology, psychology, child development, international development.
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in gender justice or international development especially in education or other child rights sectors;
• Prior experience in leading and supporting youth feminist movements at global and local levels is desired.
• Experience in building and managing relationships with youth movements and networks around the world, especially feminist young education/ child rights activists is an asset.
• Experience in supporting gender equality and education programmes is an asset.
• Experience in training and facilitation is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, French or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability

Please click Here to view UNICEF's core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this post are.

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination.

UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. 

Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Note: "This position will be based in New York. However, the position has the option for a fully remote work modality. This will be determined based on the preferred candidate's location and availability to relocate. In the event that a remote work modality is selected, no installation to the duty station will be applicable and relevant entitlements will be adjusted based on lower of the two costs between the remote work location and the parent duty station."