YEN Associate - Grants Officer , Tanzania

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of the posting: YEN Associate - Grants Officer Host Institution: ILO – Sub regional Office for East Africa Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Duration of Appointment: Total: 6 months July – January, 2013

SUPERVISION Direct supervision by: Global College with Drew Gardiner, Technical Officer, YEN Geneva with Youth-to-Youth Fund Regional Coordinator

STIPEND: The selected applicant will receive $1000 CAD/month plus airfare and a small in-country travel allowance.

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 – Subregional Office

The ILO Office for East Africa covering the countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda was established in Dar es Salaam in 1962. Since then, the ILO has undertaken technical cooperation projects in a number of areas related to its mandate in close cooperation with the umbrella organizations for employers and workers, and its affiliates.

The Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (YEF) is based at the ILO area office in Tanzania and through offices in Kenya and Uganda with the YEN providing valuable support in terms of evaluation, youth participation and knowledge sharing. 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. The basis for the work of the YEF is derived from the ILO’s mandate to promote youth employment in Africa through its Decent Work Agenda for Africa, through the Regional Decent Work Programme for the East African Community 2009- 2015 and Decent Work Country Programmes. The planned outcomes of the YEF are closely aligned to national development agendas and youth policies and will build on tested entrepreneurship tools and strategies developed by the ILO and YEN in Africa. These tools include the ILO’s two decades of experience actively supporting micro, small and medium sized enterprise development throughout Africa and the YEN and the World Bank’s experience in Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) funds.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In Canada / pre placement:

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:

In particular, the YEN associate will assist the Youth-to-Youth Fund Regional Coordinator in administering and monitoring the competitive grant scheme implementation in the three target countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The objective of the Youth to Youth Fund competitions is to identify and support the implementation of innovative project ideas by youth-led organizations on how to create entrepreneurship opportunities for other youth. The Fund is currently in its third round of grants, and will be selecting the winners of the Fund in early 2013.

In particular, the Associate will be responsible for:

I. Coordination of the monitoring of the third round of grantees, assessing their progress in delivery.

Within this area the associate will have the following responsibilities: • Familiarize him/herself with the monitoring tools and procedures and provide feedback and improvement suggestions on them. • Where necessary assist/train the grantees to complete the financial and narrative progress reports and other monitoring requirements • Coordinate and monitor the monitoring visits conducted by the local partners and consultants, communicate with them regularly • Collect the monitoring reports and analyze the data • Analyze and summarize results of data collection and provide recommendations for how grantees can improve their programs • Provide feedback and assistance to the grantees accordingly • Prepare lessons learned document to further improve the monitoring procedures and tools as well as the whole Y2Y Fund process where applicable • Keep grantees informed of training and grant opportunities, knowledge on youth employment and project management and any events organized by ILO and its partners

II. Assisting in the evaluation of the first and second round of grantee projects, assessing their enterprise and employment creation impact.

Within this area the associate will have the following responsibilities:

• Assist in developing and improving the baseline, midline and endline surveys and other tools to collect information about the grantee organizations and about the end • Coordinate the collection of the information • Develop a template for collecting the baseline data • Keep up a database of the collected information • Analyze and summarize results of the data collection • Review and revise the evaluation tools where necessary based on the experience of the first rounds of data collection

III. Conceptualizing a Y2Y Fund Replication Scheme

One of the objectives of the Youth-to-Youth Fund is to promote and support the replication of the successful projects funded by the Fund. The Youth-to-Youth Fund is in a process of developing an additional grant scheme to provide funding and support to organizations who will replicate the successful Y2Y fund projects in their own context.

Within this area the associate will have the following responsibilities:

• Develop a concept and put in place the Replication Fund • Come up with and implement other innovative ways of promoting the replication of the projects

IV. Performing other duties as required

• Participate in YEN and Global College activities including training, knowledge sharing activities, correspondence with experts. Communicate learning to colleagues and team

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. Working experience with Project Cycle Management, and preferably with Grants Management. Knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation concepts and tools. Excellent computer skills. Strong relational skills to ensure effective coordination of a network with partners from different sectors and countries. Experience working or living abroad: working experience in international development is an advantage.

Languages: This post requires proficiency in English and particularly strong English writing skills. Knowledge of Swahili would be an asset. How to apply:

APPLICATION

Send your CV and cover letter to yenetwork@ilo.org by June 6, 2013. More info:http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gc-internships

How to apply:

Send your CV and cover letter to yenetwork@ilo.org by June 6, 2013. More info:http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gc-internships