Youth Engagement Officer  

Organizational context

This National UN Volunteer assignment is with UNICEF Indonesia.

Initial contract for 12 months, with the possibility of extension.

Indonesia has 65 million young people (out of 264 million population, or 28%) aged 10 to 24 years, including 46 million (18%) adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. This high proportion of young people – often called the “demographic bonus”- are key to Indonesia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the State, as the ultimate duty-bearer, has obligations to create an enabling environment that allows the views of children, adolescents and youth to be heard on practices and policies that directly or indirectly concern them. This is why a crucial part of UNICEF’s mandate is to provide young people with opportunities and platforms through which adolescents and youth can build skills, identify their priorities, communicate in their own way and learn from their peers so they are better equipped to take an active role in society.

UNICEF Indonesia's strategy for engagement with young people seeks to ensure that they are able to drive positive change – social, economic, political – in their societies. To do that, UNICEF supports an engagement model that promotes active citizenship by supporting adolescents and youth to act on issues that matter for their future. In doing so UNICEF supported many platforms for example, the Mitra Muda and U-Report.

Through the creation of the Mitra Muda, UNICEF aims to provide adolescents and youth with opportunities and platforms that support their civic engagement journey through various online and offline activities. Bringing together existing youth networks in the country and leveraging their resources for greater impact.

U-Report is the digital communication platform led by UNICEF to engage with young people and get their opinions, feedback and concerns on issues that matter to them to support policy-making process. In Indonesia, the mechanism is available via messenger in Facebook and WhatsApp, based on a chatbot system for polls, quiz, information portal, etc. The online engagement is available in the social media feed in Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

The UNV will be placed in the Communication and Public Advocacy section, working closely with four units in the Communication sections and other programme team especially the Adolescent programme. Under the guidance of the supervisor, the UNV will be expected to work cross-sectorally with other UNICEF programme and units (Health, Nutrition, WASH, child protection, social policy, and education, etc.).

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Communication Officer (Youth Engagement) and general guidance from the C4D and Youth Engagement Manager, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the advocacy and programme implementation regarding young people’s participation across programme clusters, especially through a meaningful engagement with Mitra Muda.
• Assist the development and implementation of Mitra Muda’s working agenda as it fits UNICEF Indonesia’s priorities, including but not limited to reviewing, mentoring, and linking to relevant advocacy and commemoration opportunities.
• Provide capacity building support to the core team of the Mitra Muda youth engagement network and other members of the network.
• Support the linkages of Mitra Muda with civil society partners, youth-led organizations and other UN agencies on adolescent and youth issues.
• Strengthen team spirits among Mitra Muda members through oneline and offline enagagments, and provide the needed coaching and mentoring support.
• Support the implementation of U-Report Indonesia, ranging from the technical process in RapidPro, creative content production and online community management in social media, and the scaling strategy for U-Reporters recruitment.
• Contributes to the knowledge management to document lessons learnt and good practices on the adolescent and youth participation initiatives, especially for the Mitra Muda’s involvement.
• Support any relevant Communication and Public Advocacy initiative related to adolescent and youth engagement.

Results/Expected Outputs

As an active UNICEF team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:

• Mitra Muda network is engaged meaningfully in UNICEF Indonesia’s programmes.
• Workplan and working agenda for Mitra Muda are developed, udapted and implemented.
• U-Report platform in social media and bot system maintained, including creative content strategically produced and the numbers of U-Reporters recruited growing.
• Participation in adolescent and youth related meetings/events and meeting notes provided, highlighting key summaries and action points.
• Effective and timely support for office wide, cross sectoral adolescent and youth engagement/programming.

! This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only nationals of Indonesia and legal residents with a residency permit, are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: 7-Nov-2021

Education

• A Bachelor degree in communication, digital media, youth development, international relations, social sciences, or other relevant fields.

Experience

• Demonstrated interest and/or experience in working with young people and designing creative content, including creative writing for blogs.
• Experience of working in the creative sector is desirable.
• Experience working with young people and communities is essential.
• Relevant experience working in an international context and technical bot development is considered as an asset.

National UN Volunteer Conditions of Service

The position will be based in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where basic living needs, including accommodation, banking facilities, medical facilities and telecommunications/internet services are readily available. All staple foods can be found in the markets, e.g.: rice, meat, vegetables, fruit, cooking oil, salt, etc.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials in the duty station. National UN Volunteers are part of the insurance plan (medical, life, permanenet disability), including recognized the primary family unit (dependents) if applicable.

• National UN Volunteer Specialist receives approximately IDR 8,237,403.08 as Monthly Living Allowance.
• Provided with assignment travel cost and entry lumpsum if applicable.
• Enrolled in health, life, disability insurance.
• Applicable dependents (primary family unit, up to 3) are eligible for health insurance.
• Entitled to annual leave, 2.5 days per month.
• Provided with exit lumpsum to support transition at the end of assignment.

For more infornation about UNV Conditions of Service and Entitlements, please refer to the following:

• https://www.unv.org/become-volunteer/volunteer-your-country
• https://www.unv.org/sites/default/files/unvpf/UNVcos2021%20Complete%20hi-res-final_compressed_30.08.2021.pdf