Deadline: 7 November 2021
Location: Jakarta
Job Type: Full Time
Mission and objectives
UNICEF works to help the children of Indonesia reach their full potential. We assist our partners to monitor and measure progress against these rights via the child-focused Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable children. Our programme interventions are rights-based, cut across different sectors, respond to the specific needs of girls and boys and address the vulnerabilities and strengths of children in their first and second decades of life.
UNICEF has a strong on-the-ground presence in Indonesia, with seven regional and sub-regional offices. These are primarily in areas with the greatest disparities and service gaps. They complement our high-level policy and programme advice with practical support for planning, financing and service delivery, especially to advocate for quality, equity and sustainability.
Indonesia has the world’s fourth largest child population. UNICEF's presence in the country means we have the potential to impact more than 80 million children. We take this responsibility seriously and are committed to ensuring that children and adolescents – the building blocks of Indonesia’s future – have an equal chance in life.
Context
Indonesia has 65 million young people (out of 264 million population, or 28%) aged 10 to 24 years, including 46 million (18%) adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. This high proportion of young people – often called the “demographic bonus”- are key to Indonesia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the State, as the ultimate duty-bearer, has obligations to create an enabling environment that allows the views of children, adolescents and youth to be heard on practices and policies that directly or indirectly concern them. This is why a crucial part of UNICEF’s mandate is to provide young people with opportunities and platforms through which adolescents and youth can build skills, identify their priorities, communicate in their own way and learn from their peers so they are better equipped to take an active role in society.
UNICEF Indonesia's strategy for engagement with young people seeks to ensure that they are able to drive positive change – social, economic, political – in their societies. To do that, UNICEF supports an engagement model that promotes active citizenship by supporting adolescents and youth to act on issues that matter for their future. In doing so UNICEF supported many platforms for example, the Mitra Muda and U-Report.
Through the creation of the Mitra Muda, UNICEF aims to provide adolescents and youth with opportunities and platforms that support their civic engagement journey through various online and offline activities. Bringing together existing youth networks in the country and leveraging their resources for greater impact.
U-Report is the digital communication platform led by UNICEF to engage with young people and get their opinions, feedback and concerns on issues that matter to them to support policy-making process. In Indonesia, the mechanism is available via messenger in Facebook and WhatsApp, based on a chatbot system for polls, quiz, information portal, et
Task description
Under the direct supervision of the Communication Officer (Youth Engagement) and general guidance from the C4D and Youth Engagement Manager, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
Support the advocacy and programme implementation regarding young people’s participation across programme clusters, especially through a meaningful engagement with Mitra Muda.
Assist the development and implementation of Mitra Muda’s working agenda as it fits UNICEF Indonesia’s priorities, including but not limited to reviewing, mentoring, and linking to relevant advocacy and commemoration opportunities.
Provide capacity building support to the core team of the Mitra Muda youth engagement network and other members of the network.
Support the linkages of Mitra Muda with civil society partners, youth-led organizations and other UN agencies on adolescent and youth issues.
Strengthen team spirits among Mitra Muda members through oneline and offline enagagments, and provide the needed coaching and mentoring support.
Support the implementation of U-Report Indonesia, ranging from the technical process in RapidPro, creative content production and online community management in social media, and the scaling strategy for U-Reporters recruitment.
Contributes to the knowledge management to document lessons learnt and good practices on the adolescent and youth participation initiatives, especially for the Mitra Muda’s involvement.
Support any relevant Communication and Public Advocacy initiative related to adolescent and youth engagement.
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