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Position: Youth Officer
Category Grade: Officer/BG-06
Department: Programs
Location: Amman
Reports to: Program manager
Position Type: Full Time
Duration: 4.5 months
ABOUT RI: Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Summary:
The Youth Officer will provide technical assistance on Youth interventions in host community. He/she will work closely with other RI staff and implementing partners within the host communities.
Essential Position Responsibilities and Duties:
- Provide technical support to staff and volunteers implementing a range of Youth activities (Life skills and 21st century skills, career guidance)
- Support Youth in identifying and applying for scholarship, TEVT and income generating opportunities.
- Ensure quality standards are met in protection interventions
- Building capacity of youth and partners on Life skills and 21st century skills.
- Maintain strong coordination with other sectors (i.e., Education, Child Poverty, protection and MEAL) to ensure the integrated programming and mainstreaming protection.
- Link students with youth networks.
- Organize a range of activities such as open university day, recreational activities open days and field trips.
- Identify additional, creative, and innovative supplementary learning opportunities.
- Develop and implement a series of workshops aimed at mastering students 21st century skills.
- Uses results from the MEAL system to inform current and future interventions
- Ensure adherence to the Child Safeguarding Policy and reporting procedures
- Participates in the CP relevant meetings and working groups
- Undertake any other task assigned by supervisor
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor degree.
- Substantial experience in the field of youth and livelihood.
- Self-awareness and proven ability to operate successfully in different cultural environments.
- Ability to achieve results and maintain consistent high standards of professional behavior and achievement, including when working alone.
- Good team leader and team member skills, including the ability to be part of and organize, support, manage and develop a team.
- Ability to communicate and maintain appropriate and productive relations with a range of actors, including children, parents, local and national authorities in political and militarily sensitive environments.
- Experience of working with partners and a participatory approach
- Ability to manage stress, flexible and accommodating in difficult and frustrating working circumstance.
- Computer literate.
RI Values:
We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:
- Inclusiveness
- Transparency and Accountability
- Agility and Innovation
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
- Ensure program design adequately addresses safeguarding and protection standards
- Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve
- Ensure that your behaviour inside and outside of work promotes the values outlined with RI’s code of conduct and safeguarding policies
- Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, contribute to ensuring that all those who come into contact with Relief International staff and the communities we serve can be trusted to work safely with them
