ILO IN KENYA YEN Associate - Grants Officer (Canadians only)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of the posting: YEN Associate - Grants Officer Host Institution: ILO – Kenya Project Office Location: Nairobi, Kenya Duration of Appointment: Total: 7 months -In Canada – Pre-departure research and orientation: 2 weeks -Return: Debriefing and outreach: 2 weeks -On the job: 6 months Dates of Appointment: May – December, 2013

SUPERVISION Direct supervision by: Global College with Drew Gardiner, Technical Officer, YEN Geneva and Julius Mutio, ILO Enterprise Specialist I Kenya

BACKGROUND

CIDA-funded internships

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funds an annual internship placement programme - Young Professionals International (YPI). As a part of the this programme, CIDA has entered into a Contribution Agreement with the Global College, Canada and the Secretariat of the Youth Employment Network (YEN), Switzerland to place 5 Canadian “YEN Associates” in YEN Lead country offices. The four countries where Associates will be hosted are: Kenya, Morocco, Indonesia and Tanzania. The programme will be run annually over a 3 year time period: 2011-2013.

Global College

The University of Winnipeg Global College fosters global citizenship and engagement in human rights through interdisciplinary teaching, research, dialogue, and action in local and global communities. As an action-oriented, interdisciplinary forum for bringing students and community members into contact with local faculty, visiting scholars, local leaders and notable speakers from around the world, to discover their role within the local and global community, Global College provides a range of global citizenship programming for its affiliated students, beginning in secondary school, reaching beyond university graduation.

Global College’s will act as primary administrator for the Programme, responsible for recruitment, ensuring that Associates are trained and prepared for their placements and travel and stipend arrangements are made. Global College will also lend its education expertise, facilitating learning among Associates and ensuring this learning is shared with a broader Canadian audience.

Youth Employment Network

The Youth Employment Network is an interagency partnership of the International Labour Organization, United Nations and World Bank working to engage, educate and motivate actors to provide improved employment opportunities for youth. YEN was created in 2002 following the Millennium Summit which identified youth employment as priority for the global development agenda. In 2008, YEN went through a major revision of its intervention strategy, dedicating itself to providing more demand driven services to its Network and committing itself to higher accountability towards its stakeholders. The result of this revision was the division of YEN’s work into 4 major workstreams: (1) Advisory services through YEN’s Lead Country Network, (2) Capacity building on rigorous evaluation through YEN’s Evaluation Clinic, (3) Innovation through the Youth-to-Youth Fund and (4) Partnership development through an online portal called the YEN Marketplace.

YEN’s primary role in the Programme is to provide Associates with context and backstopping on the youth employment issue. YEN will be the main interface with host country institutions, assisting in aligning Associates work with priorities of the host institutions and transferring learning to the wider YEN Network.

International Labour Organization – Kenya Project Office

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is based at the ILO area office in Tanzania and two ILO country offices in Kenya and Uganda. YEF is a 5 year (2010-2014), $22 million project sponsored by the Danish-led Africa Commission. The project is expected to create 11,500 new jobs for youth in the region. YEN is the ILO’s main partner on the project providing valuable support in terms of evaluation, youth participation and knowledge sharing. YEN’s main responsibility under the project is the Youth-to-Youth Fund, a grant scheme targeting youth led employment organizations.

The ILO’s Kenya Project Office is based at the UN complex in Nairobi (http://www.unon.org/ ). In Kenya, the ILO is collaborating with the Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) to run the Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) Fund. The Youth-to-Youth Fund is a concrete offer to youth-led organizations in Kenya to actively engage in youth entrepreneurship development and to identify innovative, small-scale solutions that can be replicated by others. In line with the ILO’s focus on green employment and entrepreneurship, a portion of the Y2Y Fund grants in Kenya is earmarked for projects that support the promotion of green entrepreneurship opportunities.

The second call for proposals took place in September 2011 resulted in over 400 applications. Ten organizations were selected to receive the Y2Y Fund grant package of funding and capacity building to implement their entrepreneurship development projects. These projects will be implemented with technical support from KCDF, YEF and its BDS partner organizations.

For more information on ILO Kenya activities, see http://www.yefafrica.org/index.php?do=/kenya/ andhttp://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/afpro/daressalaam/countries/ken...

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In Canada / pre placement:

• Participate in 5-day orientation training in Canada (tentatively confirmed for week of 22 April, 2013 in a Canadian city to be determined) • Conduct basic research on the youth employment situation and related challenges in the host country, with a particular emphasis on identifying both gaps and assets/good practices on how the business community, policies and institutions support opportunities for youth, thereby gaining a greater understanding of the role and benefits of private sector development in promoting youth employment opportunities. • Draw a preliminary comparison with their host country, including an examination of the current diplomatic and trade relationships with Canada. • Prepare a PowerPoint presentation that introduces your host country and institution and the current youth employment challenges – to be delivered at the training.
• After returning from overseas, the intern will continue to use LEPnet.org and other means of communication for up to four weeks for post internship debriefing, to commence reintegration by working with fellow interns on summarizing key collective recommendations on key actions, tools and practices, based on their lessons learned and to implement the intern’s Public Engagement Plan. • Prepare final reports to CIDA and to Yen/ Global College including criteria for best practices that could be identified and shared among Lead countries.

In host institution:

The associate will assist the YEF team in implementation of 5 programme components. In particular, the associate will assist the Youth-to-Youth Fund Regional Coordinator in administering and monitoring grantees of the annual call for proposals in the 3 target countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Within this area the associate will have the following responsibilities:

Outreach phase • Establish and maintain contacts with media outlets, (Print, Radio and TV), youth association umbrella contacts and relevant government ministries and agencies. • Work actively to ensure the widespread distribution of the YEN Youth to Youth Fund applications package in both urban and rural areas. • Prepare statistical data on the applications received.

Selection phase • Support the selection team in selecting winning proposals. • Participate in the organization of a capacity building seminar for Round 2 shortlisted organizations. • Assist in the finalization of project documents, by reviewing grantee work plans and budgets as well as carrying out missions to project sites.

Implementation phase • Monitor progress of selected projects. • Regularly report on progress of projects of grantees alerting and assisting in resolving any issues that arise during implementation

Other tasks • Prepare lessons learned document from the second round of the grant scheme • Participate in YEN and Global College activities including training, knowledge sharing activities, correspondence with experts. Communicate learning to colleagues and team • Perform other duties as required.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

Eligibility A Canadian citizen or permanent resident A post-secondary graduate - graduate of a degree or diploma program from a university, college, post-secondary school of technology, postsecondary institute or a CEGEP Out of school Between the ages of 19 and 30 Unemployed or underemployed Legally entitled to work in Canada

Skills/Experience Ability to draft technical reports and meet deadlines; excellent computer skills. Strong relational skills are needed to ensure effective coordination of a network with partners from different sectors and countries. Working experience in international development and with project cycle management. Experience working or living abroad.

Languages This post requires proficiency in English. Knowledge of Kiswahili would be an asset.

How to apply:

APPLICATION

Complete the online application form by copying and pasting the following link into your browser:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhOdkxLZkJneE9WZU9...

Send your CV and cover letter to global.college@uwinnipeg.ca by February 18, 2013. If you would like to be considered for several of the placements, please indicate which positions in your letter. (Application due Midnight February 18 CST)

More info: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gc-internships