ILO YEN Associate , Indonesia (Canadians only)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of the posting: YEN Associate Host Institution: ILO Country Office for Indonesia Location: Jakarta, Indonesia 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 Tendy Gunawan, Youth Employment Focal Person ILO-Jakarta

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.

ILO Country Office for Indonesia

• The ILO is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. ILO aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work related issues.

• ILO is to assist Indonesia to move forward with decent work objectives, through programmes and work in three priority areas: o Stopping exploitation at work o Employment creation for poverty reduction and livelihoods recovery, especially for youth o Social dialogue for economic growth and principles and rights at work

• Youth Employment is high on the Agenda of the Government, a strategy for Job Creation focusing on Youth is being formulated by the Vice President office and supported by the ILO. At the 100th ILC of the ILO last year, the Indonesian President called for a ‘global coalition’ on youth employment. This initiative is contributing to the global efforts to address youth employment, including this year’s International Labour Conference that features an agenda item on a Recommendation on the subject.

• ILO support to the Government of Indonesia on Youth Employment started in 2002 when the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs volunteered Indonesia as the first Lead Country. The achievement of the ILO work to date include the establishment of the Indonesia Youth Employment Network (IYEN), the Indonesia Youth Employment Action Plan (2004-2007), the East Java youth Employment strategy (2005-2007), the pilot program of strengthening the Ministry of National Education on the implementation of entrepreneurship education for vocational secondary schools, and the promotion of youth based enterprise.

• The ILO further contributes to the work and commitment of the Government of Indonesia as a “lead” YEN country through the Education and Skills Training for Youth (EAST) and through JEJAKMU.

• Prior to and during the EAST project, several other specific youth employment projects were implemented by the ILO in Indonesia, including the JOY project as well as two specific projects to strengthen the capacity of respectively workers’ and employers’ organizations in the country on youth employment

• The JOY programme had a dual and mutually reinforcing strategy. On the one hand, the programme sought to build the capacities of tripartite constituents and other agents of change to play a leading role developing and implementing national policies that enhance and sustain employment-rich and pro poor growth. This is because placing productive employment generation at the centre of economic and social policies constitutes the foundation to the development of any employment intervention directed at young people. Specific interventions included: o Strengthening institutional capacities of the social partners and other key stakeholders, including women’s groups, youth organizations, to engage in employment policy development and implementation; o Establishing a mechanism for enhanced systematic coordination and networking on employment issues; o Strengthening capacity to collect and utilize for policy making labour market statistics; o Building capacities for implementation of policies towards an improved and market oriented certification and competency-based system.

• ILO EAST is a four year project funded by the Government of Netherlands and executed by the ILO. It aims to (a) improve the employability and capacity for entrepreneurship among young women and men through improved access to high quality and relevant educational and training opportunities and (b) contributing to the elimination of child labour. The geographical coverage includes Papua, West Irian Jaya, East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, South Sulawesi, and NAD provinces. The project is focused on youth (usually aged 15 to 18 years) attending upper secondary schools. It promotes preparation for decent employment though the development of entrepreneurship skills as well as support for career guidance and counseling. The project is also focused on youth (18 and above) attending three training and vocational education centres (BLKs) in Jayapura, Sorong and Banda Aceh. It focuses on capacity building for Vocational Education and Training Centre management; increased linkages with the private sector; implementation of competency-based standards; and limited provision of equipment. In addition, the projects seeks to contribute on research, advocacy and policy level activities focusing on; documenting the links between the elimination of child labour and support to decent work for youth; bringing the concerns of young entrepreneurship to the attention of provincial and national level policy makers; and promoting the mainstreaming of good practices and lessons to be learnt from all the project components.

• Currently the ILO Jakarta Office is pursuing another project on Youth Employment.

• The National Program Coordinator for Enterprise Development and Youth Employment of the ILO Jakarta office covers the following portfolios under his responsibility: social finance (microfinance and microinsurance), corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship development, sectoral activities (Tourism and Electronic), Skills development activities, local economic development, IYEN, and any other portfolios in relation to private sector engagement and enterprise development.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In Canada / orientation and debriefing:

• 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:

• Assist in developing guidelines to mainstream youth employment in the Government’s Job Creation Action Plan. OR Assist in developing the second Indonesian Youth Employment Action Plan based on the Government’s Job Creation Action Plan.Work in the National Planning and Development Agency (Bappenas) for one day a week, under the supervision of the Director for Manpower and Employment to: o Support the IYEN secretariat (JEJAKMU) which is hosted under the National Planning and Development Agency in implementing their work plan o Assist the development of IYEN's knowledge sharing platform (http://jejakmu.bappenas.go.id) in close coordination with the staff of IYEN o Assist in organizing bi-monthly meeting of IYEN o Assist in research and drafting of the Indonesia youth employment benchmarking report as contribution to the YEN Lead Country Network

• Support capturing knowledge on youth employment in Indonesia and actively contribute to the dissemination of good practices and success stories

• Assist in developing social marketing for resource mobilization

• Upscaling the EAST components at the national level, the Associate could assist expanding learning from the project to the stakeholders at the national level and knowledge sharing amongst IYEN’s partners regarding the good practices and lessons learned

• Assist in drafting concept notes for issues related to Youth Employment and school to work transition

• Assist the ILO office and existing projects in developing and implementing skills development and entrepreneurship development activities

• Assist in the ASEAN Regional Workshop on Youth Employment

• Assist the National Programme Coordinator with any other tasks, including workshop, seminar, and conference arrangements/ managements, desk review and report editing.

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 with project cycle management

Languages: Fluency in English (knowledge of Bahasa Indonesian beneficial)

How to apply:

APPLICATION

1. Complete the online application form by copying and pasting the following link into your browser:https://docs.google.com/a/globalcollege.ca/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=...
2. 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