Work Location : US - Atlanta, GA | Type of Post : Not Applicable |
Other Possible Location : Remote Work Location | Funding : APPROVED |
Expected Travel : up to 30% | Type of Contract : |
Language Requirement : English, Spanish, French or Arabic | Application Deadline : |
Employee Duration : Full-Time |
Other Possible Work Locations: Any Country where CARE USA operates.
JOB SUMMARY:
CARE is committed to gender equality and empowerment of women and girls to end poverty. As such, CARE’s education, skills, and adolescent empowerment priorities are embedded in its poverty reduction and social justice efforts. CARE focuses on the most marginalized and hard to reach who have been left out of formal education. CARE’s priorities include developing academic abilities and life and leadership skills to help young people seize social and economic opportunities and be engaged members of society. CARE recognizes the unique needs of adolescents and youth and has developed frameworks and approaches to meet them.
The Education and Skills Team (E&S) is a Unit within the Program Strategy and Innovation (PSI) Department. The Senior Technical Advisor-Adolescent & Youth Programming (STA-A&YP) is a key member and leader of the E&S team and reports directly to the Unit’s Senior Director given its strategic focus. The STA-A&YP works closely with the Team’s other clusters: Research, Advocacy and Learning (RAAL), Technical Support (TS), and Operations (Ops). Given their role in technical leadership and support, they also have a dotted line to the Director of Technical Support. The STA-A&YP is also a strategic role within PSI to support in the advancement of the Department’s and CARE’s integrated approaches to serving adolescents and youth and works collaboratively with other teams, departments, and country offices across the organization.
The STA-A&YP primarily provides technical leadership and support to program staff in CARE Country Offices (COs) and CARE Member Partners (CMPs) implementing integrated programming serving adolescents and youth, with a focus on education and skills as a pathway. The STA-A&YP sets and champions the vision and plan for advancing this work in close collaboration with the Sr. Director, other Directors, and other colleagues across CARE. The STA-A&YP also supports knowledge, learning, and positioning by helping to identify and synthesize emerging trends and innovative work in adolescent and youth programming and by helping to share findings more broadly to promote learning. As such, the STA-A&YP will need to represent and position CARE’s A&YP work internally and externally, building solid working relationships with development partners and other stakeholders. The STA-A&YP also supports resource mobilization of adolescent & youth programming to generate additional funding for A&Y programs. Finally, the STA-A&YP is a part of the E&S team’s and is expected to participate in all key meetings and take on additional relevant tasks as/where needed.
The STA-A&YP must have strong experience in program design and implementation of adolescent and youth programming, with a focus on education and skills development. They must bring experience identifying and applying best practices in this area. They must have excellent interpersonal communication, facilitation, and analytical skills to work closely with project teams on specific deliverables and to design and carry out more strategic initiatives. They should also have experience in designing for resource development.
The STA-A&YP can be based in the United States or another designated country approved by CARE USA. As part of a global team, the STA-A&YP must make themselves available to work with various teams around the world. A Master’s or advanced degree in Education, International Development, or a related field, excellent writing skills and proficiency in English, and a willingness to travel up to 30% of the time are required. The ability to speak Arabic, French, Portuguese, or Spanish or another language is required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Strategy
Technical Support and Capacity Strengthening on Adolescent & Youth Models
Knowledge Management, Learning, and External Positioning
Resource Mobilization
QUALIFICATIONS:
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