Y-Peer Coordinator & Quality Assurance Support, Cairo, Egypt
Y-Peer Coordinator & Quality Assurance Support, Cairo, Egypt
Closing date: Thursday, 13 April 2023
General
Description of assignment title: Y-Peer Coordinator & Quality Assurance Support
Assignment country: Egypt
Expected start date: 05/01/2023
Sustainable Development Goal: 3. Good health and well-being
Volunteer category: National UN Youth Volunteer
DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No
Host entity: UNFPA
Type: Onsite
Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)
Number of assignments: 1
Duty stations: Cairo
Details
Mission and objectives
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s goal is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the ICPD agenda, to improve the lives of adolescents and youth, and women, enabled by population dynamics, human rights, and gender equality. In 2018, UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, ambitions that promise to change the world for every man, woman and young person: 1.) Ending unmet need for family planning 2.) Ending preventable maternal death 3.) Ending gender-based violence and harmful practises UNFPA recognizes that innovation is a key accelerator to achieve these results. UNFPA will harness innovation to meet tomorrow’s challenges and boost its impact, especially in addressing furthest behind populations, and leverage opportunities, social capital, funding and technology by (a) strengthening the corporate innovation architecture and capabilities, (b) scaling up innovations that have proven to be effective and impactful, (c) forming new partnerships and connecting with relevant innovation ecosystems, (d) strengthening and leveraging financing for innovation, and (e) expanding communities and culture for innovation.
Context
In order to scale up awareness raising and address social norms change vis-à-vis family planning, and promoting small family size concept in Egypt among youth and to support Youth mobilization, volunteer management, humanitarian activities and capacity building of UNFPA IPs. UNFPA Egypt is utilizing entertainment education and other awareness techniques in order to sensitize youth and to deliver population education in schools as well as out of school settings. UNFPA is conducting several youth activities( to foster messages related to family planning, small family size concept and harmful practices, where youth will be engaged in a participatory approach to develop a better understanding of these issues and youth responsibilities in relation to population growth in Egypt. In addition, UNFPA Egypt is working on a premarital project that requires support in the implementation and quality assurance. The Y- Peer coordinator will be supporting the overall implementation, quality assurance, deliver training workshops on SRH, GBV, FP, FGM and TBT and develop training materials for training courses on SRH, GBV, FP and FGM.
Task description
Under the direct supervision and overall guidance of the Youth programme specialist, the UN Youth Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
Facilitate UNFPA support and act as the liaison for all Y-PEER related activities;
Ensuring proper quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms are in place to follow up on the quality and outreach of Y-PEER interventions;
Maintain database of Y-PEER trainers in different thematic areas;
Facilitate organization of workshops and training sessions & support campaigns / events with Y-PEER engagement; follow up on the analysis of Y-PEER training outreach and commission/ analyses pre / post-tests;
Support CO with all ICPD related activities;
Consolidating and reviewing reports on implemented activities for CO reporting (including reach, knowledge gained and maintained databases of capacities built).
Administer Y-Peer Website and related follow up
Manage Y-Peer work plan through the umbrella NGO Results/Expected Outputs - Progress reports will be reviewed and provided regularly to responsible officers. - Most of the required coordination work to be conducted from office/ travel to governorates if coordination requires; - The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counterparts, including Implementing Partners (IPs); - Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment;
Eligibility criteria
Age: 18 - 26
Nationality
Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.
Requirements
Required experience
2 years of experience in public health, health promotion, education with special focus to ASRH; Extensive experience in designing and implementing Y-PEER programs; and
Sound understanding and knowledge of Y-PEER training methodology;
Experience in facilitating interactive training sessions with the focus at the use of drama and theatre for social change; Experience in monitoring youth based activities;
Monitoring and evaluation
Social work
Logistics and supply management
Strong writing skills in Arabic and English.
Strong computer skills and good knowledge of relevant software applications
Area(s) of expertise
Development programmes, Health, Social work
Driving license
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Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required Arabic, Level: Mother tongue, Required
Required education level
Bachelor degree or equivalent in social science
Competencies and values
- Accountability - Adaptability and Flexibility Building Trust - Client Orientation - Commitment and Motivation - Commitment to Continuous Learning Creativity - Ethics and Values - Knowledge Sharing - Planning and Organizing - Professionalism Technological Awareness - Working in Teams
Other information
Living conditions and remarks
Cairo, Egypt is a family duty station with a wide range of services (health, education and leisure) and good living conditions. It has long been a center of the region’s political and cultural life, with high levels of tourism. Like other similar cities, Cairo offers good quality of life in terms of access to shopping centers, banks, medical services, educational facilities, cultural events, etc. The Arab Republic of Egypt has a unique geographical position in Northeast Africa, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, on the Mediterranean and Red Sea, and its connection to Sub Saharan Africa through the Nile Valley. UN Youth Volunteer gets the following package:
Volunteer Living Allowance (around EGP 12,911/Month)
Entry Lump-Sum = USD 400 (one-time payment paid in EGP)
Exit Lump-Sum upon completion of contract.
Medical and life Insurance premium/Cigna (100%) and dependents policy.
Access to UNV E-Campus for training and learning including access to LinkedIn learning. Further entitlements and information available at: https://www.unv.org/volunteer-your-country-conditions-service
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy
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