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YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ACCESS ASSOCIATE |
YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ACCESS ASSOCIATE |
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Posted 2018-08-10 09:01:38
The Youth and
Community Access Associate I will provide support for implementation and
reporting of youth-friendly women’s reproductive health and rights services.
The Associate will contribute to the planning, implementation, evaluation and
documentation of youth and community programs. The role will ensures
availability of low-literacy and visual communication materials, including
interactive tools, to support community awareness and women’s knowledge about
abortion. The Associate will Support the development and implementation of
participatory monitoring and evaluating systems and processes for youth and
community access work as well as develop and contribute to donor documents
(proposals and reports), in collaboration with team members.
Responsibilities
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Contributing to
the design and implementation of youth and community focused programs that
increase young people’s knowledge and access to sexual and reproductive health
and rights including safe abortion and contraception
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Supporting
youth-focused CBOs and sub-grantees to develop and execute work plans
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Co-facilitating
capacity building of youth-focused community intermediaries and partner
organizations
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Supporting
content development and facilitation of Ipas programme and Health Systems
trainings that focus on young women and the community.
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Contributing to
development of youth-friendly information, educational and communication
materials
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Supporting the
country team to develop and write proposals, reports, and presentations,
including information for donor documents
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Contributes to
the development of the youth implementation framework for in-country programs
and tracking
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Liaises with
other technical advisors to ensure youth engagement in various activities (e.g.
programmatic support) as well as integration of youth topics in training
content.
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Contributes to
the buildup of ASRH knowledge through program monitoring, evaluation,
documentation and learning working in collaboration with the relevant technical
units
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Updates all
technical staff in ASRH
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Responsible for
tracking results against benchmarks for the unit specific projects
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Contributing to
management of youth and community access project budgets, including budget
creation and revision, tracking and monitoring of expenditures, and review of
budgets to ensure appropriate spending
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Developing
materials to document results, lessons learned, and youth work to internal and
external audiences
Requirements
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Bachelor’s
degree in a social science or public health field
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3 – 4 years’
work experience implementing youth and community focused health interventions
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Previous
experience with women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights
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Must be able to
independently produce project work plans, timelines and budgets, as well as
proposals and reports
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Must have prior
work experience with youth or in communication and training
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Pro choice
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Ability to
travel 25%
Commitment to
Diversity
Ipas is an equal opportunity
employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin,
ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion,
age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status,
political ideology, genetic information, marital status, or any other factor
that the law protects from employment discrimination.