[ycnews] Ipas - Job Posting
- From: Jessica Main <Jessica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'ycnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <ycnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:17:49 -0500
FYI- Job opportunity at IPAS. See below for more info.
youth coalition for sexual and reproductive rights
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working internationally for sexual and reproductive rights.
Job Title
Youth Associate
Date Posted
1/23/2013
Posting Status
Open
Job Location
US-NC-Chapel Hill
Description
This position will implement activities designed to strength young persons'
leadership, mobilization, and access to information and services. This position
has a global reach, with primary focus on Asia. The Youth Associate is
supervised by the Manager & Senior Associate of the Global Youth Program (GYP).
Responsibilities:
* Work with multiple teams to conceptualize and develop strategies for youth
work.
* Ensure regional and country plans are consistent with the GYP strategic and
implementation plan, and support implementation of country-specific youth
strategies.
* Support fundraising through project design, donor document writing and donor
communication.
* Support development and adaptation of global tools and resources on youth
strategies.
* Support the development of skills and capacity of global, regional and
in-county staff to integrate youth into ongoing health systems and community
outreach work.
* Support knowledge sharing activities to ensure cross-unit and
organization-wide collaboration, including regional capacity strengthening
efforts, specifically on youth work and youth integration.
* In coordination with other teams design, implement, monitor and evaluate
youth-related activities projects focused on health systems and community
outreach.
* Act as liaison between the Global Youth Program and the Global Communications
team, including supporting integration of appropriate youth information and
language in select publications, trainings, and materials.
* Responsible for the Youth intranet site.
Requirements:
* A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting international health and/or
rights programs with a focus on young people's SRHR;
* A master's degree in public health, communications, community development,
international studies or related field;
* Strong skills and experience in project design, management, and strategic
planning;
* Technical expertise in health systems and community-level youth SRH projects;
* Strong interpersonal, written and verbal English language communication
skills;
* Ability to work independently as well as member of teams;
* Cross cultural/language skills preferred;
* Experience working in several Asian countries; and
* Ability to travel internationally 20% of the time.
https://jobs-ipas.icims.com/jobs/1337/job
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