Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
VSO is the world’s leading international development organization that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Working in 24 countries around the world, our unique role in international development is to place committed volunteers with carefully selected organizations where their skills can have the greatest impact. As a VSO volunteer, you’ll live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. By sharing your unique skills and experience you’ll help generate new ideas and new ways of doing things, helping the communities you work in lift themselves out of poverty. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come. Join us as a VSO volunteer and help us work towards our vision of a world without poverty .

Job Responsibilities
• Organise youth outreach activities in different contexts including youth enterprises, youth sport and entertainment, and other avenues that bring youth together.
• Participate in youth activities organized by stakeholders including youth organizations, government, and private sector partners.
• Support the Youth Advisor to identify and reach out to different organizations that are involved in youth development.
• Identify and engage youth clubs in higher learning institutions
• Organize logistics for meetings/workshops to generate ideas for youth development interventions.
• Support the Youth Advisor to plan, organize and conduct internal and external consultative and validation meetings for the youth programme.
• Support the youth advisor to plan workshops, identify participants and develop relevant content.
• Facilitation during youth meetings/events/workshops
• Gather information from primary actors in rural and urban areas on youth issues/challenges.
• Collect and review secondary information on youth development plans, strategies and other relevant reports
• Prepare brief reports on micro-contexts for youth livelihoods in different rural and urban contexts of Rwanda.
• Provide insights or recommendations for interventions to support youth in accessing employment or starting their own business
• Prepare progress reports on youth outreach activities and update the youth advisor

Skills, qualifications, and experience required
Successful candidates will be a Rwandan and would have the following skills, knowledge and experience:
• Young persons with Bachelor’s degree or advanced diploma in social sciences, management, business, economics or other related courses
• Dynamic diploma holders with ambition, youth engagement skills, and exposure are eligible
• Leadership experience in the community or in School or other setting
• Meeting facilitation skills
• Familiar with Youth programmes and initiatives in Rwanda
• A good level of spoken and written English
• Ability to use MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• A good network with youth organizations in Rwanda
• Previous experience or current involvement in youth sport and entertainment clubs or organisations
• Previous or current involvement in volunteering work in the community
• Experience in facilitating meetings and group discussions.
• Experience in Youth Mobilisation and Training.

Job Qualifications: Not Specified

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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