Youth Economic Empowerment Technical Advisor-FHI360 عودة إلى الفرص

Job Summary

Ma3an is a seven-year (2018-2025) USAID-funded project (now in Year 5) with the goal to increase Tunisian youth civic engagement and economic empowerment to advance progress towards sustainable, inclusive development in Tunisia.  Ma3an’s objectives include: (1) Youth have improved access to skills, services, and opportunities for civic engagement and economic empowerment, and (2) Tunisian youth lead and meaningfully participate in activities to address youth and community priorities. In its remaining three years, Ma3an will capitalize on the strong foundation of youth leaders, safe spaces, and local partners in its 33 communities and will engage more youth and partners who can offer additional assets to ensure that a wide representation of Tunisia’s most underserved youth can benefit from skills, services, and opportunities they need to secure their livelihoods and contribute to their communities. This includes working with Tunisian youth-serving and youth-led organizations to implement promising youth economic empowerment models in Tunisia and to design and apply a youth-led social entrepreneurship program. Ma3an will also work with local partners to design and implement a youth-led youth economic empowerment (YEE) collaborative action planning process that will result in supporting priority solutions within target governorates to improve the economic enabling environment and access to services that empower and expand youth access to economic opportunities.

The Youth Economic Empowerment Technical Advisor will work with and report to the Youth Economic Empowerment Technical Lead on all activities related to youth economic empowerment under Ma3an.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Support the “Promising YEE models implemented in Ma3an communities for Tunisia” activity, including conducting mapping of promising approaches; contributing to the design of a grants program and the selection of partners to apply models; providing technical assistance to selected partners as they implement and report on their models; and synthesizing and sharing lessons learned from applied models.   
• Support the “Youth-led Social Entrepreneurship activity” including working with Ma3an team members and experts to propose an initial model adapted to Tunisia to co-design with selected partner; supporting the selection of a partner and facilitating a co-design process for youth-led the social entrepreneurship model that will be applied; providing technical assistance as the partner applies and reports on the model; and synthesizing and sharing lessons learned that will facilitate the improvement and expansion of this model to additional partners.
• Support other team members to design and implement the YEE collaborative action planning method with selected local partners.
• Support the identification of YEE stakeholders and activities to connect them to youth-community collaboration mechanisms and youth safe spaces that Ma3an is supporting in 33 communities.
• Identify opportunities for Ma3an youth and partners to connect with, benefit from, and collaborate with existing YEE resources, programs, and opportunities, including government or donor-supported programs.
• Support the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (ME&L) team and program staff in integrating a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach into program activities.
• Contribute to the production of quarterly progress and annual reports and other reporting documents as needed.
• Ensure that activities are infused with principles of Do No Harm / Positive youth development/ conflict sensitivity and Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI).
• Conduct technical research and improvement of methodologies, as needed.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform any other reasonable duties as assigned by the Deputy Chief of Party
• Respect and abide by all the internal regulations of FHI 360 platform office.